Services stocks for your portfolio: United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT)

United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL) ended last trading session with a change of -3.44 percent. It trades at an average volume of 3.25M shares versus 6.73M shares recorded at the end of last trading session. The share price of $69.85 is at a distance of 86.71 percent from its 52-week low and down -9.05 percent versus its peak. The company has a market cap of $22.04B and currently has 315.49M shares outstanding. The share price is currently -5.97 percent versus its SMA20, -5 percent versus its SMA50, and 19.56 percent versus its SMA200. The stock has a weekly performance of -4.5 percent and is -4.16 percent year-to-date as of the recent close.

March 12, 2017 — United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL) United Airlines employees, union representatives and members of Congress rallied at Newark Liberty International Airport to support U.S. aviation jobs in the face of Emirates Airline’s new daily service between Newark and Athens, Greece – the latest example of massive Gulf subsidies undermining the domestic airline industry. Subsidy-enabled flights supported by the governments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar violate international aviation agreements, distort the market and undermine competition, threatening hundreds of thousands of U.S. aviation workers in the process.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) recently recorded -0.21 percent change and currently at $69.95 is 13.93 percent away from its 52-week low and down -5.61 percent versus its peak. It has a past 5-day performance of 0.84 percent and trades at an average volume of 9.28M shares. The stock has a 1-month performance of 2 percent and is 1.94 percent year-to-date as of the recent close. There were about 3.06B shares outstanding which made its market cap $214.23B. The share price is currently 0.43 percent versus its SMA20, 2.6 percent versus its SMA50, and 0.28 percent versus its SMA200.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) will participate in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2017 Consumer & Retail Technology Conference on Tuesday, March 14. A presentation by Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., will be webcast live through links at www.stock.walmart.com and will begin at approximately 8:50 a.m. EST. A transcript will be available later in the week, and the materials will be archived on the company’s website.