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Southwest cuts revenue outlook despite booming summer travel

Southwest Airlines, already under pressure from hedge funds after disappointing earnings, said Wednesday that a key profit margin will be lower than expected due to changes in how consumers book travel. The airline said it still expects second-quarter revenue to reach a record high. But Southwest said revenue per seat mile flown, a closely watched […]

Consumer confidence drops on worries about US economic outlook

U.S. consumer confidence fell in June amid concerns about the economic outlook, but households remain Optimistic about the labor market It expects inflation to ease over the next year. A mixed survey released Tuesday by the Conference Board also showed that consumers’ perceived likelihood of a recession over the next 12 months fell this month […]

Stock market outlook: S&P 500 could soar to 15,000 by end of decade – Fortune

Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, was one of the few people on Wall Street who predicted a rise in stocks last year when a recession was widely expected and most of his colleagues saw stocks fall. But he and the American economy proved the doomsayers wrong. Forecasters surveyed by BloombergLee’s prediction for 2023 […]

Americans retirement outlook improves despite inflation: survey

Recent surveys suggest that Americans are feeling more optimistic about their retirement lives thanks to rising wages. (iStock) Confidence among U.S. workers and retirees about their retirement prospects has not yet fully recovered from record lows hit in 2023, but it is slowly improving, according to a recent survey. According to the Employee Benefits Institute […]

Stocks Churn as Traders Waver on US Rates Outlook: Markets Wrap – Yahoo Finance

(Bloomberg) — Stocks hovered below this week’s record levels as bets on the Federal Reserve’s policy easing prompted investors to exit riskier assets. Most Read Articles on Bloomberg U.S. futures contracts were little changed after European benchmark indexes fell after Wall Street pulled back from the previous session’s all-time highs. The dollar price rose slightly, […]