Market Currents

• Tuesday, October 20, 2009

• 09:42 AM Western Union (WU): Q3 EPS of $0.33 beats by $0.01. Revenue of $1.31B (-4.6%) in-line. Says recent stabilization trends are encouraging. Shares -0.5%. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable pre-market earnings: ALV, BK, BIIB, BLK, BTU, CAT, CMA, COH, DGX, DRH, DD, EAT, FRX, GAP, ITW, JEF, JRN, KO, LXK, LMT, MTB, PCP, PH, PFE, RF, SHW, STT, SVU, UAUA, UNH, UTX, WU Comment!

• Tuesday, July 21, 2009

• 19:56 PM Only one thing about Western Union's (WU) earnings call wasn't in line with expectations: The company has apologized to Piper Jaffray analyst Robert Napoli after an impostor using his name got into the call and fired an expletive-laden tirade at CEO Christina Gold. (You can see the call transcript - minus the disruption - here.) 1 Comment
• 07:05 AM Western Union (WU): Q2 EPS of $0.32 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $1.25B (-6.9%) in-line. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: AKS, ALV, AMTD, BJS, BTU, CAL, CAT, CMA, DD, DGX, ELN, FCX, FRX, HCBK, JEF, KO, LMT, LUV, LXK, MRK, PCP, RF, SGP, SHW, STT, UAUA, UNH, UTX, WU Comment!

• Tuesday, April 21, 2009

• 08:00 AM Western Union (WU): Q1 EPS of $0.32 beats by $0.05. Revenue of $1.2B (-5.2%) in-line. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: AKS, ALV, AMTD, BJS, BK, CAT, CMA, COH, DAL, DD, DGX, EAT, FRX, HBAN, JCI, JEF, KCI, KEY, KO, LMT, LXK, MAN, MICC, MRK, MTB, NTRS, NYT, RF, SGP, STT, TRA, UAUA, UNH, USB, USG, UTX, WBS, WU Comment!

• Thursday, February 5, 2009

• 08:42 AM Western Union (WU): Q4 EPS of $0.37 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $1.29B (-1.3%) vs. $1.37B. Shares +3.3% premarket. (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday's open: ANR, BG, BKC, BPO, CAH, CBB, CI, CINF, DO, DUK, EL, ELNK, FLIR, FLO, K, KIM, MA, MCO, MF, NCR, RX, SBH, SE, SPR, UFS, WU Comment!

• Monday, December 8, 2008

• 08:06 AM Vodafone (VOD) and Western Union (WU) plan to team up on international money transfers via mobile phones. The partnership will be officially announced later today. 1 Comment

• Tuesday, October 21, 2008

• 01:05 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: AKS, ALV, AVY, BIIB, CAT, CE, COH, DD, DGX, EAT, FITB, FRX, GNTX, JEF, KEY, LMT, LXK, MAN, MICC, MMM, MTB, NCC, OMC, PCAR, PCP, PFE, RF, SGP, SY, TLAB, UAUA, USB, WAT, WBS, WU Comment!

• Tuesday, July 22, 2008

• 07:32 AM Western Union (WU): EPS of $0.33 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $1.35B (+12%) in-line. Sees full-year EPS of $1.29-1.33 vs. $1.28. [PR] Comment!
• 00:04 AM Notable earnings before Tuesday's open: AKS, AVY, BHI, BIIB, BJS, CAT, CHKP, CME, CP, CPO, DD, DPZ, ERIC, FCX, FITB, FRX, GNTX, HAL, JBLU, JEC, JEF, KEY, LCC, LXK, LMT, OMC, PXPS, PAS, PCAR, PMTC, RF, ROK, RYN, STI, SVU, TLAB, UAUA, UNH, UPS, WAT, WB, WU, WTNY, XTO. Comment!

• Friday, June 20, 2008

• 07:59 AM Western Union (WU +1.1%) raised its EPS growth forecast to 15-18% from 12-14%, and okayed a $1B buyback. Comment!

• Thursday, June 5, 2008

• 11:13 AM The Indian gov't is cracking down on money laundering. MasterCard (MA), Visa (V) and Western Union (WU) will be required to monitor and report fishy transactions. Comment!