Stocks limped on the low volumes of the pre-Christmas week, battered by conflicting data and leaving investors with a muddled outlook going into 2023. It’s a dynamic in which good news and bad news te...
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Nike, FedEx, Micron, General Mills, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
A bevy of economic data and several notable companies reporting will keep investors busy this week, before things slow down for the holidays. On Tuesday, Nike FedEx and General Mills release quarterl...
FedEx and Nike earnings will hold vital hints on holiday-shopping strength
After investors raced for the exits following their last earnings reports, package-deliverer FedEx Corp. and athletic-gear maker Nike Inc. will try it again. And they’ll offer important reads on deman...
These 20 stocks in the S&P 500 tumbled between 20% and 30% in September
Stocks declined again on Friday, closing out September with large losses across the board as the rally from the June lows partway through August faded into memory. The S&P 500 SPX fell 1.5% on Fri...
FedEx Earnings Are Coming. It Shouldn’t Get Any Worse.
Text size FedEx investors will want to hear from management after a disappointing update given a week ago. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Shipping giant FedEx reports its fiscal first-quarter financial resul...
Dow Futures Fall as Wall Street Anticipates Another Big Rate Hike From the Fed
Text size AFP via Getty Images Stock futures traded lower Monday in a week that is expected to see the Federal Reserve raise interest rates by another three-quarters of a point in its effort to stamp ...
Why Is the Stock Market Down? It Knows the Worst Is Yet to Come.
Text size NYSE From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. The stock market reached that point this past week. Oh, the market was hopeful, entering the week, that inflation had reached its ...
The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.
U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...
Why FedEx’s stock plunge is so bad for the whole stock market
FedEx Corp.’s profit warning has cast a pall on the broader stock market, as a record plunge in the package delivery giant’s stock has helped trigger one half of a Dow Theory “sell” signal. FedEx shar...
Why FedEx’s profit warning is such bad news for the U.S. economy
FedEx Corp. has bad news for investors, but what the logistics company’s massive profit warning says about the U.S. economy may be even worse. “The FedEx news was pretty stark. But when I read it, I w...
A further 27% drop in the S&P 500 could be coming if inflation hawks are right, Goldman Sachs team warns
Not exactly TGIF this Friday. What the sellside is slowly realizing is not just that the Fed is going to be aggressive in September after the latest shocking inflation figure, but that the central ban...
‘Simply staggering.’ FedEx hit with downgrades, price target cuts as warning shocks Wall Street.
A profit warning from FedEx was ringing alarm bells for Wall Street and beyond on Friday, with shares of the economic bellwether slumping as analysts piled on downgrades and price target cuts. FedEx F...
FedEx to Close Offices, Park Aircraft After Warning of Sales Shortfall
Updated Sept. 15, 2022 5:42 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) FedEx said its quarterly revenue fell below its expectations and it was closing offices and parking aircraft to offset declining volumes...
FedEx stock tanks nearly 15% after company withdraws outlook, says year is about to get worse
FedEx Corp. shares fell nearly 15% in the extended session Thursday after the logistics company pulled its outlook for the year, called for significantly lower quarterly profit and lower revenue, and ...
FedEx Sues Ground Contractor, Cancels His Routes
FedEx sued one of its largest delivery contractors in the U.S. and canceled his routes, saying the businessman has orchestrated a campaign to promote his own consulting firm by disparaging the deliver...
Why UPS Stock Could Be a Winner. Margins Are Improving.
Text size UPS CEO Carol Tome.. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Until recently, United Parcel Service operated a little like the New York Yan...
BP to Exit 20% Stake in Russia’s Rosneft
Russia’s aggressions in Ukraine prompted reactions from companies such as BP and United Parcel Service as well as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund as the world continues to raise pressure on President V...
Airlines Warn of Crippling Flight Disruptions if New 5G Rollout Isn’t Delayed
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images After AT&T and Verizon Communications refused requests from the U.S. government to delay the Jan. 5 launch of new 5G services, the Airlines for America trade...
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect the Fed to Help.
Text size FedEx’s disappointing earnings and unexpectedly weak guidance were key factors in this past week’s stock market swoon. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The stock market faces a doubly poisonous c...