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10 Signs of a Recession
Stockerati submits: Happy Birthday, America! The typical economic cycle consists of two main phases: Boom and Recession. The phase leading to a boom is called expansion and that leading to a recession is called contraction. Another way of looking at this is considering expansion the transition from recession-boom and contraction the...
B&B Ups Rights Issue Size
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters UK) - Bradford & Bingley on Friday increased its rights issue to 400 million pounds after U.S. investor TPG Capital pulled out of buying a stake as concern deepened about the bank's business plan. Private equity firm TPG withdrew after ratings...
UK Bank B&B Ups Rights Issue Size After TPG Quits
By Steve Slater LONDON (Reuters) - Bradford & Bingley BB plans to increase its rights issue to 400 million pounds ($794 million) after U.S. private equity firm TPG Capital pulled out of a plan to buy a stake, sending its shares lower. TPG...
For Stocks, Escaping Bear Hinges on Oil, GE
By Walker Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - It will be tough for Wall Street to shake off the bear market blues next week if the price of oil keeps rising and the earnings season kick-off from Alcoa and General Electric disappoints investors. Earnings...
Some Consequences if Oil Prices Stay High
Zacks.com submits: Director of Zacks Equity Research Dirk van Dijk, CFA has long considered the affects of sky-high energy prices for an extended period of time on the overall global economy. Today we have him spell out a couple scenarios that may be plausible in the months and...
Air Express Carriers and Intangible Market Value
Victor Cook submits: Two-thirds of the market value of US companies is based on intangibles. Yet, the source of all this intangible market value is considered to be “a mere detail” in some stock pricing models. For example, intangible market value is not given even a passing mention in...
Will Dow's Second Price Hike Be a Wake-Up Call?
Trader Mark submits: Wow, this is amazing... Andrew Liveris CEO of Dow Chemical DOW is one of my favorite CEOs - he has blasted the entire energy policy in the United States if you call it a policy [May 28: Bravo Dow Chemical CEO] and just 5 weeks ago instituted...
FedEx And UPS: Indicators of a Weak Economy?
Greg Feirman submits: Slow U.S. economic growth and an unprecedented increase in the cost of fuel have resulted in lower-than-expected U.S. package volume and an accelerating contraction in the use of premium air products. In addition, the anemic U.S. economy is negatively impacting package volume into the United...
Is UPS Cheap Enough to Buy?
The Moneygardener submits: Earlier this month I wrote about why I really like United Parcel Service UPS, but the stock never seems to get cheap enough to satisfy my requirements for a purchase. However, all of that seems to be changing as UPS is guiding down for earnings per share going...
UPS Shares at 4 1/2-year Low After Profit Warning
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc UPS shares fell 4.6 percent on Tuesday to their lowest point since late 2003, the morning after the world's largest package-delivery company cut its second-quarter profit outlook citing high fuel costs and a...
Profits Seen Off More Than 10 Percent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. corporate profit outlook is deteriorating rapidly, with S&P 500 earnings for the second quarter now seen falling at a double-digit pace from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters Proprietary Research released on Tuesday. Second...
UPS Slashes View on Soaring Fuel Costs
By James B. Kelleher CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc UPS warned on Monday that second-quarter earnings would be below expectations, blaming high fuel prices and a sluggish U.S. economy. The announcement from the world's largest package delivery company came...
UPS: Oil's Latest Victim
Steve Farrington submits: Trading of United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS shares was halted Monday after hours until about 4:55 PM EST (T3) as they warned on Q2 earnings, citing, you guessed it, rising oil prices and package volume: Old guidance range: $0.97 to...
FedEx Posts Loss, Gives Low Forecast
BURLINGTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Package delivery company FedEx Corp FDX posted a quarterly loss on Wednesday due to high fuel prices, a weak U.S. economy and a previously announced write-down, and issued a weak forecast for fiscal 2009. The news sent the company's...
Will the Market Keep Falling? I Hope So
Andy So submits: Some of my readers have asked me if I would be afraid if the market would continue falling to 50% or greater. I?m sure to their surprise, my response has been ?I hope so?. It is human psychology that leads us to believe that buying...
Air Express Carriers and the Missing Factors Model
Victor Cook submits: The previous post in this series was Air Express Carriers: Mr. Smith Goes to Holland. In it I compared actual market shares with optimal ones for a combined FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and TNT [AEX: TNT] in a peer group that included the Swiss carrier Kuhne+Nagel [SWX:...
De-Globalization: Oil, Transport Costs and Inflation
Menzie Chinn submits: Following up on this post from October 2006, when oil was only $58.88 (WTI, daily average) a barrel, consider this excerpt from yesterday's Thomas Net: The impact of rising transportation costs, driven significantly by high oil prices, is already being seen in capital-intensive manufacturing that carry...
United Parcel Service, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
United Parcel Service, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Medicare Ups the Ante on Medical Mistakes -- But Risks Going Too Far
Two weeks after health plans like Wellpoint announced they would follow Medicare's lead in refusing to pay for eight preventable medical problems in hospitals, Medicare has upped the ante by proposing nine more conditions for which it won't fully reimburse hospitals, including surgical infections, wild swings...
United Parcel Service, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
United Parcel Service, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
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United Parcel Service of America Inc. Company Info
NAICS Code
Couriers and Express Delivery Services: 492110
