While the stock market holds steady for the moment, high-yield bond exchange-traded funds continue to fall toward 15-month lows, which may be a worrisome sign for Wall Street. "High-yield bonds are risky, and thus they tend to be more sensitive to changes in financial market liquidity," Tom McClellan, publisher of the investment newsletter McClellan Market Report, wrote in a recent research note. That's why high-yield bonds proxies tend to trade more like stocks than Treasurys, McClellan has said, so continued declines in junk-bond ETFs could be warning for more trouble for stocks. The SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF [: jnk] is down 0.9% and the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF is shedding 0.8%, with both trading at the lowest levels since mid-November 2016, while the S&P 500 is down just 0.1%.
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Shares of online-travel businesses Priceline Group Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc. are down 2.6% and 1.9%, respectively, in premarket trading Friday after Expedia Inc. reported weaker-than-expected earnings and delivered a disappointing outlook for the full year ahead. Expedia said it would be investing heavily in marketing and working to increase its hotel inventory. All three companies have discussed ramps in ad spending in recent months. Expedia shares are down 15% in premarket trading. TripAdvisor is due to report December-quarter results on Feb. 14, while Priceline is set to report on Feb. 27. TripAdvisor shares are down 24% in the past 12 months, compared with a 12% gain for Priceline shares. Expedia's stock is little changed over that time, as the S&P 500 has gained 12%.
Shares of online travel service Expedia Inc. tumbled 17% in premarket trade Friday, after Benchmark downgraded the stock to hold from buy after disappointing earnings. "We were concerned after the management transition that the apparent inventory war brewing between Priceline (PCLN:Buy) and Expedia would weigh on the space similar to what happened in China with Qunar," analyst Daniel Kurnos wrote in a note. "However, we believed management had taken their lumps in the initial guidance, which, unfortunately, proved not to be the case." Kurnos slashed his estimates for the company and said it expects earnings to come in at the low end of the revised guidance range, "with not enough growth to offset the increased investment near-term." Expedia reported fourth-quarter profit of $55.2 million, or 35 cents a share, on sales of $2.32 billion, up from $2.09 billion a year ago. After adjustments for stock-based compensation and other effects, Expedia claimed earnings of 84 cents a share, down from $1.17 a year before. Analysts on average expected adjusted earnings of $1.15 a share on sales of $2.36 billion. Shares are down 0.2% in the last 12 months, while the S&P 500 has gained 12%.
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$50K HELOC | 3.52% |
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$100K HELOC | 3.52% |
$30K Home Equity Loan | 5.14% |
$50K Home Equity Loan | 4.84% |
$75K Home Equity Loan | 4.84% |
$100K Home Equity Loan | 4.72% |
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2 yr CD | 0.98% |
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60 Mo Auto Refi | 2.86% |
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