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Opinion on  Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWA)     Sector: Transportation  >  Industry: Airline
Multiple problems

Oct 07, 2008 04:49 PM GMT
Anything
Return Risk
+9.51% HIGH
Sr. Associate

1. Southwest now stealing vital high-margin route--> Minneapolis to Chicago. More of that is possible now that slots are opening up at major airports (such as Minneapolis). 2. Airlines not a great business to be in the next 2 years due to commodity price risk and weakening consumer. 3. Mergers: Tough to execute in ANY economy, but even tougher when jobs are a premium asset to families. 4. The US needs low-cost airlines, not high-ticket ones. What's Northwest's demise, is the US consumer's gain.


NWA:  This call was made on 10/07/08 @ $7.39
Rating:   Negative   $7.39 (10/07/08)
Closed:   10/10/2008 @ $6.74 (+8.80% in 3 days)
Target:   $4.00 (-45.87%) in > one year


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