Time for your daily dose of Trending Tickers, the stocks that you're tracking as measured by Yahoo Finance ticker searches. Making the list today:
American Airlines (AAL) shareholders are experiencing some motion sickness. The entire industry is lower today on confirmation of the first case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas. Investors are concerned that some tourists may blanch at the prospect of spending 20 hours sealed in an aluminum Petri dish with 300 strangers until this Ebola thing is under control. Despite that headwind American shares still higher by nearly 40% in 2014.
Angie's List (ANGI) shares are higher by nearly 25%. The consumer review website company is exploring strategic options that could include selling the company. Angie's List shares have been getting panned to within an inch of their lives since peaking over $25 in the heady summer of 2013. Anything seemed possible then. Now getting sold for $10 a share would be a triumph. It's about critical mass, friends, and Angie doesn't have it. Dabbing a little perfume behind its ears and calling the investment banks is probably the company's best hope. (Sorry... tough love).
General Motors (GM) bucking the tape and roaring higher! Not only did September sales increase by 19% but CEO Mary Barra told investors that the company is targeting 10% margins in North America. Barra says the company will be profitable in Europe by 2016. "We have the resources. We have the technical talent. We have the global footprint. It's about execution," said Barra. Motivating words from an exec to an organization that's been dragged through the mud for much of the year. For today at least investors are honking their appreciation.
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