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TSA line wait times subside at BWI-Marshall day after ICE deployment WBAL-TVHow to check TSA wait times at DMV airports WUSA9Security lines easing at BWI, but officials still advise early arrival Sunday WBFFAmericans just endured a nightmare week of travel. It's not going to get better anytime soon. Yahoo Finance
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UCLA women battle through adversity to defeat Duke and reach the Final Four again Los Angeles TimesUCLA rallies vs. Duke to make women's Final Four ESPNNo. 1-Seed UCLA Advances to Second Consecutive Final Four uclabruins.comLauren Betts and UCLA are Final Four-bound after rallying past Duke with a strong second half AP News
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Mortgage activity in the U.S. has contracted for consecutive weeks. In the week ended April 26, the mortgage activity composite index slid 2.3% following a 2.7% fall the week before. Refinancing fell 3.3% while purchase applications dropped 1.7%. Inflation's stubbornness in the first quarter of 2024 has led investors to conclude that the Federal Reserve's first rate cut might not be coming this year. This has buoyed interest rates such as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. In the week ended April 26, the 30-year fixed rate rose 5 basis points to 7.29%, its highest since November.
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Stocks capped off a terrible week with another slide as a warning from one of Wall Street's bellwether firm's stoked concern about the U.S. economy.
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After Thursday's close, delivery giant FedEx (FDX, -21.4%) - whose financial results are often seen as a read on broader economic conditions - issued preliminary fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue figures that were well below estimates. The company cited a recent acceleration in "global volume softness," and specifically pointed to "macroeconomic weakness in Asia and service challenges in Europe." FDX also withdrew its outlook for the full fiscal year, and said it is initiating several cost-cutting measures to offset the effects of lowered demand, including deferring staff hiring, closing 90 FedEx office locations and ending Sunday operations for several FedEx Ground locations. The company is slated on the earnings calendar to report its full quarterly results after next Thursday's close.
Wall Street's nerves were already frayed ahead of FedEx's financial warning, as this week's red-hot inflation reading all but assured another large rate hike from the Federal Reserve at next week's meeting. But an additional contributing factor to this week's massive volatility is likely today's quadruple-witching options expiration, which is when index futures, index options, stock options and individual-stock futures all expire at once. This happens four times a year - on the third Friday in March, June, September and December - and sometimes leads to heavy volume and erratic moves in
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