It seemed like a great idea when travel portal Expedia spun off TripAdvisor last December. Stock in the longtime hub of online travel reviews soared. Then came Tuesday night's earnings report -- and the captain turned on the "Fasten your seatbelts" light.
This week, we'll be seeing how some of the most famous stocks in America are doing: Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Starbucks will report earnings, and there are sure to be a few surprises.
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What will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street? Video game companies will let us know the score; satellite TV providers will give us a signal; Tesla and Priceline are traveling forward; and Johnny Depp and Tim Burton could put some teeth in the year's box office numbers.
New travel website RoomKey.com launched earlier this week, offering to hunt through the available hotel rooms across several chains and find you the best deals. But with so many similar websites out there, how can it expect to compete? Well, guess who's running it.
Even buy-and-hold investors can't afford to let their portfolios collect cobwebs. Valuations and fundamentals change perpetually, and shareholders need to know when there's more potential for growth elsewhere. Here we take a look at some online travel agency stocks worth swapping: Expedia and Priceline.