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Reliable earnings outlooks? In this economy?

Marketplace

American Public Media

Business, News

4.68K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When companies release earnings reports, they often predict where they’re headed next, profit-wise. Lately, thanks to all that pesky economic uncertainty, some firms have altered their forecasts or opted out altogether. In this episode, why some guidance is better than no guidance. Plus: OPEC foresees oil demand growth through 2050, protein is the latest food fad, and an environmental organizer takes us on a mini “toxic” tour of his community that’s adjacent to a petrochemical complex.


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This corporate earnings season, what companies don't say, could be as telling as what they do.

1:03.9

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

1:08.0

This is Marketplace.

1:20.2

In Baltimore, I'm Amy Scott, in for Kai Rizdahl.

1:22.2

It's Thursday the 10th of July.

1:23.5

Good to have you with us.

1:30.5

It's the time of the summer just after the end of the second quarter when corporate earnings start rolling out.

1:40.6

And today, Delta Airlines said something notable in its quarterly report. The company reinstated its profit outlook for the rest of the year, something Delta had canceled back in April when tariffs were first erupting onto the

1:46.6

scene. Things were just too uncertain to confidently predict where bookings were headed. Now,

1:53.7

with a little more clarity, the airline is predicting a weaker 2025 than originally expected.

2:00.2

It's a challenge companies across the stock market are

2:03.1

dealing with. How do you forecast out three, six, 12 months or more when everything could

2:10.1

change tomorrow? Marketplace's Sabree Beneshaw has the story. Each quarter, corporations tell

2:16.3

their shareholders, hey, this is how we're doing, and this is how we think we're going to do.

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