Q4

After a successful third quarter, one analyst is optimistic about the cruise line industry heading into fourth-quarter earnings. The Cruise Analyst: Goldman Sachs analyst Lizzie Dove published a note on the cruise line industry ahead of earnings. Here are her ratings and price targets: Royal...

Ahead of fourth-quarter earnings, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya is looking closely at automotive demand headwinds and a possible trade war with China. The Semiconductor Analyst: Arya also published a note on the semiconductor industry on Tuesday, covering several companies: Texas Instruments...

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE: BRK-A) on Saturday announced its fourth-quarter earnings.  What Happened: Berkshire's quarterly operating income rose 45% to $7.29 billion, or approximately $4,931 per Class A share, from $5.02 billion a year earlier. Net income rose 11%...

The introduction of new IMO 2020 low-sulfur fuels and blanked sailings will dominate container markets in the fourth quarter, according to one leading analyst. As reported in FreightWaves, shippers and forwarders have expressed confusion over the timing and transparency of new charges now being...

After that dramatic two-day drop, things seem to be stabilizing a bit this morning. Don’t forget that this has been a very resilient market, but also keep in mind that with payrolls looming tomorrow, the big down-move we’ve had, and more jitters about geopolitics, it could still be a...

Sometimes investors can find a sector to hide in when stocks take it on the chin. Not on Wednesday, as concerns about overseas economic weakness and trade wars ganged up on the market and took everything down with them. Cyclical sectors that tend to fall in times of economic concern got slammed,...

October is off to a shaky start and the slide continues this morning, but let’s keep things in perspective. We’re not even two days into the month, and Halloween is a long way off. Let’s not scare ourselves too early. Instead, you could look at October as a month where we still...

Big banks began to report earnings in the week ended Jan. 12, and the financial earnings news flow continued into the week ended Jan. 19. A Muted Show The financial sector turned in 2.4-percent year-over-year revenue growth for the fourth quarter, the second lowest of all the eleven sectors,...