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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What’s News in Markets: High Flier, Revenue Shift, Ticket Trouble

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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How did United Airlines' earnings land with investors? And why are subscribers not enough for Netflix? Plus, what troubles Live Nation? Host Francesca Fontana discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.8

Head to Netsweet.com. Wall Street.

0:19.2

Hey listeners, it's Saturday April 20th. I'm Francesco

0:26.2

Fontana for the Wall Street Journal and this is what's news and markets.

0:29.6

Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

0:33.4

Let's get to it. Investors started 2024 with high hopes for interest rate cuts from the Fed,

0:38.6

but those hopes are fading fast. And as a result we're seeing the inflation blues weighing on the stock market, which had

0:46.0

been riding some great rate-cut-fueled rallies so far this year.

0:50.5

Over the past three months, I feel like every week or so I was telling you guys about some new record high that stocks were hitting but not so much in April and certainly not this week

1:00.4

The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ ended the week lower and the Dow ended the week just about flat.

1:06.0

Why don't we talk about some good news?

1:11.0

Let's talk about airline stocks. I know it's been a rocky start to the year for

1:15.6

air travel really anything related in any way to Boeing with all of its

1:20.3

malfunctions and quality issues and delayed plane deliveries, but United Airlines

1:25.8

soared above all of that this week when it posted better than expected quarterly results.

1:30.6

On Wednesday, the company posted a jump in first quarter revenue

1:33.7

thanks to strong flight demand and said it would have posted a profit if not for a

1:38.1

recent Boeing grounding. I've got some numbers for you. So United's earnings

1:42.1

took a $200 dollar hit from that

1:44.2

which is not nothing but its first quarter loss came in at a hundred and

1:48.0

24 million dollars which was smaller than its 194 million dollar loss in the same period last year, the first quarter of

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