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Four Biggest US Airlines Look Unlikely to Make Money Flying Passengers This Year

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It’s not looking good for any of the major U.S. airlines to actually make money flying passengers in 2025.

United Airlines (UAL) reported third-quarter results after the bell yesterday, and through nine months of 2025, it has produced higher cost per available seat mile (CASM) than passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM).

With PRASM of 16.00 cents but CASM of 16.34 cents, the Chicago-based carrier joins rival Delta Air Lines (DAL) with results in those metrics to the negative through three quarters.

American Airlines (AAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV) report Q3 results next week, but both were even further to the negative through two quarters than Delta and United.

Still, all four were profitable overall in 2024, largely because of lucrative co-branded credit cards.

Shares of United ticked lower an hour before the bell. The stock entered Thursday up 7% this year.

Snowflake Stock Jumps on Palantir Partnership

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Snowflake (SNOW) shares popped 7% before the bell after the AI data cloud company announced a partnership with Palantir Technologies (PLTR).

The collaboration “integrates Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud with Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP),” the press release said, and “customers in the commercial and public sectors will be able to build more efficient and trusted data pipelines, faster data analytics, and AI applications.” 

Snowflake stock entered Thursday up roughly 55% this year. Shares of Palantir, which were up 1% before the bell, have soared more than 135% in 2025.

Watch These Salesforce Price Levels as Stock Jumps on Upbeat Sales Outlook

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Salesforce (CRM) shares gained ground in premarket trading Thursday after the software maker issued a better-than-expected long-term sales outlook.

The company said it expects revenue to surpass $60 billion in 2030, comfortably ahead of the level forecast by analysts. It also projects revenue growth of above 10% annually for the 2026–2030 fiscal years, boosted by its Agentforce software, which automates customer service tasks and business processes.

Shares of Salesforce, a Dow Jones Industrial Average component, were up 4.8% at $248 in recent premarket trading. Coming into today’s session, the stock had lost nearly 30% of its value so far this year amid concerns that competing AI software could slow adoption of the company’s Agentforce platform.

Since retesting the 200-day moving average (MA) in mid-May, Salesforce shares have traded lower within a descending broadening formation, tagging the pattern’s upper and lower trendlines on several occasions since that time.

More recently, the 50-day MA has provided selling pressure on attempted rallies, while the relative strength index has slipped slightly below its neutral threshold. However, the stock looks set to open around the 50-day MA after the software maker’s upbeat revenue outlook, potentially setting the stage for a breakout from the descending broadening formation.

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–Timothy Smith

Stock Futures Point Higher as Strong Bank Earnings Continue

2 hr 17 min ago

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%.

S&P 500 futures also were up 0.4%.

Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.5%.