Cuts to flight traffic coming Friday if there's no shutdown deal, Trump official says
Air travel is in for cutbacks if the shutdown continues,...
Air travel is in for cutbacks if the shutdown continues, a top Trump administration official said Wednesday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the government would cut traffic by 10% at 40 airports starting Friday if there isn't a deal by then to end the shutdown.
Duffy warned earlier this week that if the shutdown continued, it could lead to "mass chaos." Air-traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers have continued to work without pay during the shutdown, but Duffy discussed "staffing pressures" straining the system in comments on Wednesday.
S&P 500, Nasdaq log best day in over a week as tech leads stock-market rebound
Stocks: A better-than-expected ...
Stocks: A better-than-expected private payroll report from ADP gave investors hope that the labor market isn’t doing too badly, helping push indexes higher across the board.
Bonds: Treasury yields popped as Supreme Court justices indicated skepticism about the legality of President Trump’s tariff policies, raising the possibility that the White House will lose its case—and all the tariff revenue it has collected.
Commodities: Gold recovered a bit of its mojo, getting back to within striking distance of $4,000. But oil continued to flounder as traders worried about oversupply.
U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, clawing back some of the sharp losses from the day before, when tech and more speculative corners of the market were hit hard.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained about 225 points, or 0.5%, ending near 47,311, based on preliminary data.
The S&P 500 index rose 0.4%
The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.7%.
It was the biggest daily percentage gain for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq since Oct. 27-28, according to FactSet.