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United Airlines (UAL) Shares of the airline are up more than 5% in after hours after better-than-expected quarterly results and earnings guidance. United sees its first quarter adjusted earnings anywhere between 50 cents and $1.00, beating estimates of 22 cents per share. The airline reported fourth quarter EPS of $2.36 versus analysts’ consensus expectations of of $2.12. It’s revenue of $12.4 billion also came in above expectations of $12.2 billion. The airline said it able to recover quickly… Source link

DAVOS, Switzerland — The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is well underway, and there is a lot happening here on the ground despite not being as crowded as previous years. One source said the crowds feel 10% to 20% lighter in the halls of the Congress Center. Another noted that the after-hours party scene (more on that below) is less muted than in year’s past. There is also far less optimism about the economy in the voices of world’s power brokers. One CEO remarked that we may be… Source link

Interactive Brokers founder and billionaire Thomas Peterffy has spotted one likely unintended consequence of the Federal Reserve embarking on raising interest rates. “There is a lot of leverage in the system as the Fed begins to raise rates. We will be looking at bankruptcies maybe among many of the private equity firms that are invested in on the high leverage, and in several businesses that basically will not be able to pay the interest,” Petterffy told Yahoo Finance. Despite that very real… Source link

It’s been roughly a year since GameStop (GME) began overtaking headlines and a ‘meme stock’ phenomenon was born. However speculative assets have been under pressure recently amid rising inflation and a more hawkish-toned Federal Reserve.  “I do hope that investors will refocus on fundamental values,” Thomas Peterffy, founder of Interactive Brokers told Yahoo Finance Live.  “This meme stock idea — it’s fun, but it’s not sustainable,” he continued. “I think a lot of people will lose a lot of… Source link

If U.S. regulators crack down on the controversial practice of payment for order flow, it may have one unintended consequence. Big trading outfits could become much larger and even more influential in markets, explains Interactive Brokers chairman and founder Thomas Peterffy.  “If they were to prohibit payment for order flow, what has to happen is you would have Citadel buy Robinhood and Schwab would buy Virtu, and the two sides would be put together into one company,” Peterffy said on Yahoo… Source link