April 19, 2024
Investors

UPS Meets With Investors Tuesday. It Could Be Big for the Stock.

This past year was more difficult than United Parcel Service imagined when it set its three-year goals back in 2021. UPS stock closed above $200 a share on June 9, after the 2021 meeting. Shares closed this past week at $156.27. On Tuesday, UPS is set to meet with analysts and investors in Louisville, Ky.,

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Investors

Investors Don’t Need to Sweat the Latest Boeing 737 Safety Incident. The Data Show Why.

Now Boeing investors, whether they like it or not, have to prepare themselves for Monday’s trading session with as much detail—and context—as possible. On Friday, a United Airlines flight was found to be missing an external panel when it landed in Oregon. The plane involved was a 25-year-old 737 NG, or Next Generation, model. Boeing’s

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Funds

U.K. pension funds to disclose domestic investment as U.K. stock market falters

Last Updated: March 2, 2024 at 6:36 a.m. ET First Published: March 2, 2024 at 6:31 a.m. ET Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Saturday said U.K. pensions will have to disclose how much they have invested domestically, in a move meant to boost the faltering U.K. stock market. Under the plan, defined contribution funds by 2027

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Investors

Should stock-market investors stop worrying about the Fed and just keep loving AI?

It might seem at times that investors care more about Jensen Huang than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Huang is the longtime CEO of chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA , which stole the show last week by blowing away already lofty earnings expectations and leading stocks to new rounds of all-time highs, even as nagging

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Investors

Spirit Airlines Stock Surges as Carrier Fights Back With Action-Packed Investor Update

Spirit Airlines came out fighting Friday as it looked to reassure investors with improved guidance and steps it has taken to shore up liquidity. The company also said it was assessing options to refinance 2025 debt maturities, which credit ratings agency Fitch described as a “significant refinancing risk” earlier this week. Shares of Spirit Airlines

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Investors

Taiwan’s elections: Here’s what investors should watch

This Saturday, Taiwan will head to the polls, in elections that will be closely watched by investors, due to the self-governing territory’s outsized role in the global economy as the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.  For voters, the choice between the three candidates – representing the center-left Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the center right

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Investors

Why stock-market investors will remain at mercy of shifting rate-cut expectations

Stock investors have gotten off to a wobbly start to the new year, hobbled by shifting expectations on the timing and extent of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts in 2024. All three major U.S. stock indexes snapped a nine-week winning streak on Friday, after unexpectedly strong December job gains prompted traders to briefly pull back on

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