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• Here comes United Airlines ... (UAL)

  17-04-2017 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  United Continental is set to report first-quarter earnings after Monday's closing bell amid the backlash that followed a passenger's removal last week Sunday.
  Analysts forecast that the company earned $0.38 in adjusted earnings per share and operating revenue of $8.83 billion, according to Bloomberg.
  The highlight of these results is likely to be the earnings call on Tuesday when analysts get to hear more from executives on the business and last week's incident. 
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• LIVE: Netflix reports earnings (NFLX)

  17-04-2017 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Netflix will report its Q1 earnings Monday after the bell, and Wall Street is expecting a modest beat relative to Netflix's guidance.
  The key numbers investors will be watching are the domestic and international subscriber additions, both of which can typically cause the stock to swing wildly post-earnings.
  Here is what Wall Street is expecting, via Bloomberg:
  Q1 EPS (GAAP): Wall Street forecasts $0.37.
  Q1 revenue: Wall Street forecasts $2.65 billion.
  Q1 US subscriber growth (net additions)
  
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• Here's how NAFTA protects US exporters that Trump claims to champion

  17-04-2017 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Donald Trump has blamed Mexico for a lot of things, including boosting crime and stealing US manufacturing jobs following the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA.
  Of course, there are ample data that clearly prove him wrong on both counts. A new blog published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York focuses on what the authors say is "an underappreciated benefit of NAFTA: the protection it offers US exporters from extreme tariff uncertainty in Mexico."
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• CREDIT SUISSE: Here's why Amazon's stock is going to soar (AMZN)

  17-04-2017 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazon's stock price has soared 43.7% over the last year to more than $900, and several Wall Street analysts think it could go to $1,000. 
  Credit Suisse equity research analyst Stephen Ju is the latest to call for a big move in Amazon's share price. In a note circulated to clients on Monday, Ju reiterated his "Outperform" rating on Amazon and raised his price target to $1,050 from $900. 
  Amazon has been investing heavily in fulfillment and data centers, a
  
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• Treasury Secretary Mnuchin explains Trump's decision not to label China a currency manipulator

  17-04-2017 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In an interview with the Financial Times, US Secretary Treasury Steven Mnuchin defended President Donald Trump's decision not to label China a currency manipulator.
  Mnuchin said Trump's comments during the campaign "reflected previous periods of time," and explained the shift by pointing to "the combination of the facts and the combination of what the president said and how China is working with us," according to the FT.
  During his campaign, Trump pledged to label China
  
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• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin admits the August deadline for Trump's massive tax cuts is 'not realistic at this point'

  17-04-2017 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin admitted in an interview with Financial Times that President Donald Trump's planned tax cuts and reform will not come by the congressional recess in August.
  Mnuchin had previously said that he wanted to have a massive tax reform bill on Trump's desk by the August recess.
  "It started as [an] aggressive timeline,” Mnuchin told the FT. "It is fair to say it is probably delayed a bit because of the healthcare."
  Mnuchin also called the deadline "highl
  
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• Mike Huckabee rips Comcast in lengthy tweetstorm: 'I'd rather have Obama back as President than have Comcast' (CMCSA)

  17-04-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee launched into a lengthy Twitter tirade aimed at Comcast Monday afternoon.
  A one-time 2016 Republican presidential hopeful and a top surrogate for President Donald Trump, Huckabee tweeted that Comcast's service was so bad, he'd "rather have Obama back as President than have Comcast."
  "Mafia better service than @comcast," Huckabee tweeted. "Sure they shoot you, but it's over with and they don't charge you for the bullet."
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• CREDIT SUISSE: Alphabet is our No. 1 internet stock pick (GOOGL, FB, AMZN)

  17-04-2017 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Google's parent company Alphabet could be worth $1,100 a share, nearly one-third more than it's trading for, Credit Suisse analysts said in a note to clients on  April 17.Shares of Alphabet rose 1.2% to $833.64 as of 2:21 p.m. in New York on Monday.Credit Suisse named Alphabet one of its three favorite consumer Internet stocks. Facebook, and Amazon are the other two top large-cap consumer internet stocks to own, the bank says.
  Stephen Ju covers Alphabet for Cre
  
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• Here's how many insurers ditched each state's Obamacare exchanges in 2017

  17-04-2017 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, faces an uncertain future.
  Despite the failure of the American Health Care Act, the Republican bill which would have repealed and replaced the ACA, President Donald Trump has made moves regarding the administration of the ACA that could undermine the law.
  The ACA, however, also had issues before it fell into Trump's cross hairs. For one thing, the mix of people signing up for insurance on the ACA's individual insura
  
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• Meet Trump's designated driver of Wall Street deregulation

  17-04-2017 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump looks set to nominate Randal Quarles to replace the outgoing Daniel Tarullo as the Federal Reserve's point man on regulation. Or in this case, deregulation, given the president's stated intention of doing a "big number" on the Dodd-Frank rules adopted to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
  This time, the role would be official: Tarullo, a governor like any other, was never actually nominated to the position of Fed vice chair for regulation, ironically creat
  
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• A hedge fund that told investors it can't lose money is reportedly under SEC investigation

  17-04-2017 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A hedge fund that told investors it couldn't lose money is under SEC investigation, according to a Bloomberg News report.
  Statim Holdings, a small Atlanta-based hedge fund firm, had previously been investigated by Georgia regulators starting in 2015.
  Last summer, Bloomberg reported that Statim's investors weren't sure how the firm made its money – despite the firm reporting strong annual returns.
  Statim and the firm's founder, Joseph Meyer, have not been accused of misconduct, and as
  
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• CHARLES SCHWAB: Markets will face their biggest risk in the coming weeks — here’s how we think it will end

  17-04-2017 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wall Street bears have a lot of evidence to make the argument that this bull market is running out of steam.
  As reported by Business Insider's Bob Bryan, a number of economic indicators are decelerating.
  For instance, the March reading of the consumer price index showed a decline in prices for the first time since February 2016. And the Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell by 0.2% in March, the second straight decline for sales. 
  The outlook for econo
  
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• The lira is surging after Turkey's referendum

  17-04-2017 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Turkish lira surged after a slim majority voted in favor of amendments to the constitution, which grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "sweeping powers in the biggest overhaul of modern Turkish politics."
  The currency is up by 2.2% at 3.6669 per dollar as of 11:54 a.m. ET on Monday. 
  The lira's appreciation may seem unexpected to some onlookers, given that investors usually have concerns over what consolidation of political power and disintegration of checks and bala
  
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• Banks are suddenly scaling back lending, and Wall Street isn't sure what to make of it

  17-04-2017 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bank lending to consumers and businesses is slowing down.
  As of last week, commercial and industrial lending had not increased since September 7, the first six-month period of declines since the aftermath of the financial crisis, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said.
  Consumer-loan growth has also slowed, up by 1.4% since the November election versus 3.1% during the same period a year earlier.
  Depending on who is asked, this slowdown is either an expected response to some preceding indicators or an
  
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• Here's the most disproportionately popular job in every state

  17-04-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some jobs are disproportionately concentrated in certain states.
  Fashion designers flock to New York, Texas has an outsized share of petroleum engineers, and Louisianians are more likely to be boat pilots or captains than are other Americans.
  We made a map that shows the most overrepresented job in each state, among jobs with at least 1,000 people employed, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recently released May 2016 "Occupational Employment Statistics." Each state has far more of
  
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• A top exec at a $158 billion dealmaking giant recalls the best advice she ever received (CG)

  17-04-2017 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sandra Horbach, the cohead of US buyouts at the $158 billion Carlyle Group, is one of the private equity industry's most senior women. 
  Described as a trailblazer, she is also one of Carlyle's most senior women.
  In a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider, Horbach described the best career advice she has gotten. It came courtesy of her father, a real-estate developer.
  He advised her "to really focus on relationships and to care about people that you work with and to never forget
  
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• Facebook is about to take the wraps off its secretive and ambitious consumer hardware group (FB)

  17-04-2017 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The all-star roster of tech veterans that Facebook began assembling one year ago is quietly making progress, steadily expanding the size of its ranks and the hardware prototypes under development.
  The group, known as Building 8, currently has four simultaneous projects underway, spanning everything from cameras and augmented reality to science fiction-like brain scanning technology, Business Insider has learned.
  And Facebook is already planning the coming-out party for its impending f
  
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• Snapchat dives below $20 (SNAP, FB)

  17-04-2017 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The stock price for Snap Inc. just fell below $20.
  Shares of the parent company behind messenger Snapchat have been on a wild ride since the company's IPO. The stock rallied from $17 to $27 in its first two days of trading, only to tumble 30% over the following weeks.
  That was until shares got a boost following a deluge of positive ratings from Wall Street analysts on March 27, including:
  Goldman Sachs: Buy, $27 price target
  Morgan Stanley: Overweight, $28 price target
  Citi:&
  
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• One poll shows Trump's stunning impact on the way Republicans feel about the US economy

  17-04-2017 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Republicans have become much more confident in the US economy since the election of President Donald Trump. And a new poll shows Trump's win may have even changed the way they see the past.
  The poll, from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel showed that by 54 percentage points, GOP voters in Wisconsin believed the economy has gotten "better" over the last 12 months. When asked in October, GOP voters were 28 points more likely to believe it had gotten "worse" over the past 12 months.
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• Is it a surprise PRs are getting top marketing jobs?

  17-04-2017 09:00
  
  When John Lewis announced its director of comms Peter Cross had been promoted to director of customer experience, a few eyebrows were raised.
  After all, John Lewis is a brand built on advertising. So the decision to turn to its most senior PR to help lead its marketing department was a bold one.
  Two years ago, Linkedin made a similar move when it promoted Shannon Stubo from VP of corporate communications to chief marketing officer. At the same time it brought its comms function into the marketin
  
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• Secular Britain looks for chocolate eggs

  17-04-2017 02:00
  
  LONDON: Britons are more likely to associate Easter with chocolate eggs than with a religious event, and when searching for them online, Cadbury is by far the preferred brand.When researcher YouGov asked 2,670 UK adults, on 13 April 2017, what...
  
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• New endorsement guidelines for Indian celebrities

  17-04-2017 02:00
  
  NEW DELHI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has clamped down on exaggerated claims made by celebrities endorsing products with a new set of guidelines that will require them to do more than simply repeat the lines they are given by...
  
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• McDonald's tackles mass personalization

  17-04-2017 02:00
  
  NEW YORK: McDonald's, the quick service restaurant, is always ready to explore new platforms and ad formats in its quest for "mass personalization" but it takes a strategic approach to such developments, a leading executive has said."Whenever a...
  
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• Intel emphasises brand experiences

  17-04-2017 02:00
  
  DANA POINT, CA: Intel, the technology group, has successfully reinvigorated its brand by focusing on how its tech products can drive and deliver compelling experiences.Steve Fund, CMO at Intel Corp., discussed this subject at the Association of...
  
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• Gulf retail braces for change

  17-04-2017 02:00
  
  DUBAI: Amazon's acquisition of Souq promises to transform not just the online shopping experience in the Gulf, but also the offline as malls and bricks-and-mortar stores rethink their approach.Last month the US giant bought access to a...
  
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• APAC e-shoppers want peace of mind

  17-04-2017 02:00
  
  SINGAPORE: While more consumers across Asia Pacific are shopping online, security considerations remain a potential stumbling block to faster growth in the sector, according to a new survey.The latest
  
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