You're doing some creative quoting right there. The context for that sentence is: > Boeing also said on its conference call some customers have stopped making

You're doing some creative quoting right there. The context for that sentence is: > Boeing also said on its conference call some customers have stopped making advanced payments. [...] > I’m not a financial analyst and I haven’t gone through the numbers in detail, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assert that this is not good news. I'd say you don't need to be a financial analyst to realize customers not paying you is not a good thing.