Economic Outlook

U.S. Airlines Are Flying High After 10th Straight Year Of Profitability

Posted by Frank Holmes

on Thursday, 31 January 2019 7:52

Domestic airlines weren’t exempt from the rout that hit stocks in December, the market’s worst month since the Great Recession. Shares of all four major U.S. carriers—American, Delta, United Continental and Southwest—saw double-digit losses. Delta ended December down 17.8 percent, its worst month since October 2009, when it gave back 20.3 percent….CLICK for complete article

Early Nominee for Fake News Story of the Year

Posted by Michael Campbell

on Sunday, 27 January 2019 16:28

It’s not just that the media was so wrong on the coverage of the Covington Catholic High School incident – the bigger problem is the knee jerk violent response from well known celebrities and news people.

Netflix Receives Its First Best Picture Oscar Nomination For ‘Roma’

Posted by Jayson Derrick

on Tuesday, 22 January 2019 9:01

Netflix is no stranger to Academy Award nominations, but the film — which follows the life of a live-in housekeeper to a middle-class family in Mexico — is the company’s first chance at bringing home the top prize. Netflix is up against a strong competitor in “Black Panther,” which was the highest grossing film in North America in 2018 with more than $700 million in ticket sales….CLICK for complete article

Golf Equipment Sales Finally on the Upswing – What’s Behind the Comeback?

Posted by Brett Hershman, Bezinga Staff Writer

on Friday, 18 January 2019 11:26

Golf is back, and that’s not a reference to the 2019 PGA Tour.

After years of doom and gloom in the industry, golf has received some of the best news it a while short of Tiger Woods’ resurgence last year.

After facing declines in the previous year, the U.S. golf retail business grew 8 percent in the 12 months ending in November 2018 to $2.6 billion…Click here for full article.

Meet The New Brexit ‘Doomsday Preppers’: Housewives Stockpiling Food And Medicine

Posted by ZeroHedge

on Tuesday, 15 January 2019 5:42

After months of fraught negotiations – first with the EU, then with her eurosceptics in Parliament – mere hours remain before Prime Minister Theresa May brings her Brexit withdrawal agreement up for a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday. And with analysts and MPs alike anticipating an overwhelming defeat – the latest estimates put the margin of defeat at around 225 votes – Theresa May is under pressure to bring all of her “Project Fear” powers to bear to try and coerce MPs to back her deal, though now that MPs have wrested some of the control over the process away from the PM, her threats of “her deal, no deal or no Brexit” have largely been robbed of their bite….CLICK for complete article

 

 

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