US AIRWAYS' stock is up nearly 13% today! Most US airlines' stock prices are up too today, but by much less. I suppose being piloted by someone highly skilled and competent boosts your share price. Citibank and Bank of America take note.
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This isn't as odd as it sounds. They lost almost 13% yesterday, when the accident happened. They then regained their share price today, when everything turned out ok and everyone realized that this wasn't their fault (due to shoddy maintenance, for example).
This is very good news for Airbus.
It's not fair. Vikram Pandit has been working on landing in the Hudson for months now and now he'll just be second. I do hope someone will make something good of the fact that it was an NYC-Charlotte flight that the FAA is now bailing out.
Another sign of investors carefully researching before they purchase... Next we should try to introduce slogans and mascots for dodgey financial instruments or have celebrity endorsements