Flood of mail, historic historic boom in holiday shopping and The biggest snowfall is Over the years the Northeast U.S. Connecting to flood the shipping system. An estimated 6 million packages a day are iling in retailers’ warehouses or shipping centers and waiting to be picked up by FedEx, UPS, …
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A holiday item that is already sold out: Shipping capacity. Both FedEx Corpo. FDX 0.62% And United Parcel Service Inc.. UPS 0.23% Some of their larger shippers have said most of their capacity has already been spoken of, and will have to wait to pick up any additional trailers with …
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Workers wearing personal protective equipment perform Covid-19 tests in Drive in Winnetka, California (Photo by Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Getty Images Text size Here’s what you need to know about the impact of Covid-19 to navigate the markets today. • Joe Biden kicks in for a national mask mandate, …
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Text size It is the busiest week of the second quarter earnings season, with 171 S&P 500 companies slated to report. Things start slowly on Monday, before 3M, Advanced Micro Devices, eBay, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Starbucks and Visa reported on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Boeing, Facebook, General Electric, PayPal Holdings, Qualcomm and …
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