By Geoffrey Smith
Investing.com -- Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Thursday, March 5th. Please refresh for updates
- 8:47 AM ET: HP Inc (NYSE:HPQ) stock fell 2.0% after the maker of printers and other office hardware rejected an improved offer from rival Xerox (NYSE:XRX).
- "The Xerox offer would leave our shareholders with an investment in a combined company that is burdened with an irresponsible level of debt and which would subsequently require unrealistic, unachievable synergies that would jeopardize the entire company," HP chairman Chip Bergh said.
- 8:53 AM ET: Airline stocks tumbled after the International Air Travel Association nearly quadrupled its estimate of what the coronavirus could cost the global industry in lost revenue this year.
- Under a worst-case scenario, airlines in the U.S. and Canada could lose up to $21 billion, the IATA said.
- American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) stock fell 4.8%, while Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) stock fell 4.4% and United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) stock fell 3.3%.
- Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), which warned that it expects a hit of about $300 million to first-quarter revenue, fell 2.4%. JetBlue (NASDAQ:JBLU) stock fell 4.1%