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...Raj Subramaniam, chief operating officer of FedEx, told analysts that its ground delivery operation had seen “an outstanding Cyber Week”, delivering 100m packages....
...(FT) What else we’re reading Inside Wuhan: China’s struggle for control Beijing is keen to portray Wuhan, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic, as returning to normal....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...And the crisis itself, preceded as it was by endless assertions of “just trust our inscrutable competence”, surely ends any presumption that they should be given the benefit of the doubt on grounds that it...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...The company, which is often seen as an indicator of the health of the US economy, reported volume growth of 2 per cent for express packages and 5 per cent for ground deliveries, driven by online shopping...
...FedEx already operates all 33 of its ground network’s hubs in the US on Worldport’s highly automated model, with minimal handling by humans....
...David Abney is due to step up from his current role as chief operating officer on September 1 to take over from Scott Davis, who has been chief executive since 2008....
...UPS reported a similar demand pattern to FedEx, its worldwide rival in the express package business, with cheaper, slower parcel delivery services performing strongly and US domestic business doing better...
...Scott Davis, UPS chief executive, said he was “extremely disappointed”....
...FedEx is considered a bellwether for the global economy because of its role in shipping goods for companies, and other freight and delivery companies also lost ground....
...FedEx ticked up 0.1 per cent to $87.63 on the week, ahead of the global package delivery company’s quarterly results for the fiscal year ended May 31 next week....
...Shares in FedEx climbed 8 per cent to $83.47 after the package delivery service reported earnings for the three months ended November 30 that were 76 per cent higher than last year....
...“Let someone else …continue where I left off,” Theroux writes, ground down by the poverty and corruption....
...Shares in FedEx, which competes with UPS in the global package delivery business, fell almost 3 per cent before regaining ground to $91, down 1 per cent....
...Other advocates of a carbon tax include Fred Smith, chief executive of FedEx, UPS’s main competitor....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite held its ground, closing 0.1 per cent lower at 2,839.96....
...“It would appear that FedEx is preparing to spend millions of dollars trying to convince Congress that a FedEx driver delivering a package is different somehow [from] a UPS driver delivering a package,”...
...Amit Kara, UBS 1) Minority government and market fear – a hung parliament will almost certainly lift the risk premia of UK inc....
...FedEx, UPS’s arch-rival, cited the same concerns for the US economy last week....
...Even Citigroup , initially made ground on reports that it planned to sell nearly $12bn in leveraged loans, closed down 0.8 per cent at $23.58....
...“If it’s not customer-friendly it’s going to hurt their business,” says Scott Harkins, vice-president of product marketing at FedEx....
...Stylus Inc, however, based in Bangalore, India, has set out some fundamental ideas....
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...However, guidance for first quarter earnings was at the lower end of analysts' expectations, deepening concern that the world's largest package delivery company could be losing ground to rivals FedEx and...
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