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UPS Stock Down Ahead of Earnings Results – The Street

Shares of United Parcel Service are lower by 0.48% to $92.75 in mid-morning trading, one day prior to the release of the package delivery service’s fiscal 2015 fourth quarter earnings release.

UPS will report its latest financial results before the market open on Tuesday morning.

Analysts are expecting that the company will post a year over year rise in its earnings per share and revenue results for the most recent quarter.

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Will 2016 Be United Parcel Service’s Worst Year Yet? – Motley Fool

United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) is one of the biggest players in an industry that’s expanding at record paces. So what could possibly go wrong? Turns out, a lot. Let’s dig deep to see whether 2016 will be United Parcel Service’s worst year yet.

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Worried analysts question Amazon’s logistics plans – Reuters

In the wake of Amazon.com Inc’s disappointing financial results that sent shares plunging Thursday, analysts blamed rising costs to deliver goods, which increased to $4.5 billion in the quarter, up 24.4 percent from the same quarter last year.

And they sharply questioned the company’s plans to continue to make heavy investments in logistics, even at the expense of profits.

They wondered why it was planning to buy more assets like trucks, and reportedly to lease jets, and worried it planned to spend the money to take on shippers like United Parcel Service Inc.

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Maine UPS driver sentenced to probation for stealing veterans’ pills – Portland Press Herald

A UPS delivery truck driver from Maine who stole packages of pills intended for patients who are military veterans was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland to serve two years of probation and pay nearly $1,400 in restitution.

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Here Is the Bear Case Against UPS – The Street

Investors should prepare for United Parcel Service shares to keep falling if broad market conditions continue to deteriorate. Our team at Foundation Investing has been stalking this short since the middle of last year. Both macro and micro headwinds make UPS an attractive bear vehicle.

The United Parcel Service earns almost 75% of its revenues from deliveries within the United States. Unfortunately, many important U.S. economic indicators are starting to roll over. This is a bad sign for the economy. And a bad economy means fewer deliveries for UPS.