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Avianca Financing Is In Documentation
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 12:37pm | 604Read More...United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ: UAL) and Kingsland Holdings have agreed to provide up to $250 million of four-year financing to Bogota, Colombia-based airline Avianca. The debt is priced at 3%; interest will be structured as payment-in-kind (PIK) until maturity, granting Avianca greater...
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Democratizing Derivatives: Gatsby Redefines Speculative Options Trading
Monday, September 23, 2019 - 8:36am | 1013Read More...In an interview with Benzinga, Jeff Myers, co-founder at the commission-free options trading platform Gatsby, discussed reducing barriers and creating a community around options trading. How It Started The story goes like this: Myers viewed a pre-viral video of a passenger being dragged off a...
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Freightos Looks To Bring United Airlines Air Cargo Service Online
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 1:38pm | 401Read More...Freightos, the software as a service (SaaS) platform for the freight industry, is building an online pricing and booking platform for air cargo for one the biggest airlines in the world. United Continental (NYSE: UAL) plans to use Freightos' WebCargo Horizon platform as the back-end system for on-...
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Goldman Sachs Changes Airline Reservations: Downgrades Spirit, Upgrades United
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 3:34pm | 618Read More...United Continental Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: UAL) may have friendly skies ahead for investors following a price drop over recent months, but Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NYSE: SAVE) is headed for some revenue turbulence, Goldman Sachs said as it flipped ratings on the two carriers. The Analyst Goldman...
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United Airlines Looks Primed For A Breakout
Thursday, June 14, 2018 - 3:17pm | 320Read More...Shares of United Continental holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) look like they're primed for a breakout. The stock, which has struggled to regain losses from the February sell-off, is right up against the $73 handle, which has acted as resistance. The chart below from VantagePoint Software shows...
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Ray Dalio's Principles & Top 7 Most Undervalued Stocks
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:47am | 3651Read More...The following originally appeared on Finbox.io Most investors are well aware of the investing prowess of Raymond Dalio. He's the billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist that founded the largest hedge fund on Wall Street (Bridgewater). However, investors may not be aware...
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Here's Why Warren Buffett Invested in Southwest Airlines
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 3:10pm | 4354Read More...The economics of the airline industry are dreadful. Here are some reasons why I believe so. high fixed costs - employee, fuel, rents (terminal, etc), no pricing power - commodity like pricing which is often dependent on your competitor, violently cyclical - each time the economy sneezes...
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Delta Air Lines Leads The Pack, But Will The Sector Ever Stop Being 'Cheap?'
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 12:12pm | 417Read More...Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE: DAL) leads its peers in myriad ways in a highly commodified sector long considered “cheap,” which makes buying it a good bet, Barclays analyst Brandon R. Oglenski said in initiating coverage of the airline with an Overweight rating. “Leading is no easy...
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United Tells Baffled San Diego Comic-Con Fans To Remove Comic Books From Their Luggage
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 10:41am | 288Read More...Comic book fans flying out of San Diego after attending last weekend’s Comic-Con got a strange and baffling announcement from United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL): Carry on your comics if you want, but you’re prohibited from checking them inside your luggage. United subsequently...
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United Airlines' Q2 Earnings Fly Over Estimates, But Q3 Forecast Downs Stock
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 2:12pm | 425Read More...United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL) has had quite the year from a PR perspective, facing some difficult highly public incidents that appeared to tarnish the brand, if not only temporary. These PR disasters didn't stop the airline from delivering a significant second-quarter earnings...
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United Airlines, NYSE Say They Weren't Hacked; Security Experts Aren't So Sure
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 2:31pm | 522Read More...From United Airlines and the New York Stock Exchange to MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal and numerous others, it feels like the whole world is being hacked. Should investors be worried or is this one massive coincidence? "I would say we're still trying to figure it out,"...
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Memories Of March Return As Momentum Stocks Hit Hard
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 4:49pm | 1900Read More...U.S. stocks sold off hard with momentum stocks seeing larger losses with names like Twitter, Facebook, FireEye and others under-performed major indices significantly. The Fed's richmond President Jeffrey Lacker commented that U.S. inflation has bottomed and is moving towards its target...
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Archer Daniels Midland Goes 'Wild' On Natural Flavors To The Tune Of $3.13 Billion
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 1:48pm | 583Read More...Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) said Monday it would acquire privately held Swiss company Wild Flavors for $3.13 billion, the biggest acquisition yet for the agribusiness giant. Wild Flavors, founded in 1931, produces natural-based flavors and “flavor systems” that give food...
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American Airlines Or United Airlines: Which Would You Rather?
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 10:28am | 606Read More...Two of the oldest airlines have a corporate rivalry that borders on legendary. United Continental Holdings (NYSE: UAL) (United Airlines) and American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) are almost always locked in a head-to-head competition for industry supremacy, despite the rise of several other newer...
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Flyers Complain About This Airline The Most
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 1:27pm | 606Read More...As of 2013, the most recent year in the analysis, Frontier Airlines ranked as second most complained-about, reflecting a spike that began in 2012 and pushed it past United Airlines, whose complaints peaked in 2012. Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) passengers complain more than riders of any other...















