less e-commerce activities drive this company low. also, there are lots of damages from UPS shipping although customers are getting full refund. 'free shipping' offer from companies will trigger them to re-re-negotiate the price rate with UPS. with DHL going under, there may be some opportunities, but the rate of UPS shipping is already too high. hybrid vehicles will require UPS substantial amount of capital to invest + get rid of current vehicles at salvage level.
Investors are currently limited to the iShares Dow Jones Transports (IYT) as a transport ETF option with net assets of $698 million and 20 component stocks (stats as of 8/8/08 from the iShares website ). The top five holdings account for 43.2% of invested assets and include the following: Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI, 10.7%), Union Pacific (UNP, 9.6%), FedEx (FDX, 9.1%), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG, 6.9%), and United Parcel (UPS, 6.9%). In addition, the iShares Dow Transports ETF also includes three passenger airlines: AMR Corp. (AMR), Continental (CAL), and JetBlue (JBLU); alth...
United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) CFO Scott Davis reaffirmed recent guidance at an investor conference in Cologne Germany. Included in the comments was a one sentence forecast for the US economy for 2007
“Davis said domestic small package operations will be affected this year by a slowing economy in the United States, with next-day air growth flat to slightly positive in 2007.”
If you respect Dow Theory tenets that transportation should confirm the Dow be ye afraid or at least sell a few positions.
The real long term news is the fundamental shift in the mix of international...
United Parcel Service said it ordered 27 Boeing 767-300ER freighter aircraft, worth about $3.8 billion at list prices.
UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, said the aircraft are part of its fleet replacement plan and will help it keep up with strong growth in its international business. The planes are to be delivered between 2009 and 2012.
Today was a light volume and mixed trading day where there was no real feeling for the market being up or down. The G20 meeting yielded no major score for the markets and the Empire State manufacturing number for New York's region was the worst on record.
FedEx (NYSE: FDX) is going to raise the rates on many of its services in January of next year. UPS (NYSE: UPS) is planning the same thing. The price increase from FedEx will be close to 7% .
According toThe Wall Street Journal, "The increases come as shipping companies benefit from slumping fuel costs but are hampered by falling demand."
The move is a very big risk. During a recession, businesses and consumers will find almost any way they can to cut corners. FedEx still has formidable competition from the United Stat
Today started out looking like a great Monday after the Chinese announced a $586 billion stimulus package. Unfortunately, some of this was already in the works and many doubt its projected 8% to 9% growth for 2009 can stave off a recessionary environment ahead. Bonds closed early ahead of Veteran's Day, and are not trading Tuesday.
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Today was a light volume and mixed trading day where there was no real feeling for the market being up or down. The G20 meeting yielded no major score for the markets and the Empire State manufacturing number for New York's region was the worst on record. 
