Some U.S. Airfares Have Surged 50% Since the Start of the Year
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Your team spend more time searching for information than using it. Amazon Quick changes that. |
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| 0:17.5 | Here's your morning brief for Tuesday, May 5th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:22.6 | A rise in fuel prices driven by the Iran War has piled pressure on U.S. airlines to increase fares. |
| 0:28.5 | According to Kayak, the average price of a domestic airline ticket in the U.S. increased 24% between early January and April 20th. |
| 0:36.3 | And prices for international flights departing the |
| 0:38.8 | U.S. are up 50 percent compared to last year. U.S. foreclosures have jumped after the Trump |
| 0:44.4 | administration ended a generous Biden-era subsidy. During the pandemic, homeowners with a federal |
| 0:49.8 | mortgage who got into financial difficulty could apply for a partial claim to clear any unpaid balance on their mortgage. |
| 0:56.5 | Some borrowers also got a loan modification to make their monthly payments more manageable. |
| 1:01.3 | But the Trump administration has now tightened the rules, meaning homeowners can now only get that once every two years. |
| 1:07.9 | And shares in data analytics firm Palantir have rallied off hours after it said its quarterly |
| 1:12.3 | revenue surged 85% year-over-year to more than $1.6 billion. The results were driven by strong |
| 1:19.3 | U.S. military demand and a rapidly growing enterprise business for its data-crunching software. |
| 1:24.5 | Still, on the earnings call, executives tried to play down concerns about AI competition, |
| 1:29.1 | which have resulted in its stock sinking 13% this year. Asian stocks ended the day mixed, |
| 1:35.6 | shares in Europe are broadly higher, and U.S. stock futures are gaining ahead of earnings from |
| 1:40.7 | Pfizer, KKR, and Chipmaker AMD. And we have a lot more coverage of the day's news |
| 1:46.2 | on the WSJ's What's News podcast. You can add it to your playlist on your smart speaker or listen |
| 1:51.5 | and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. How much of your workday is actually work and how much |
| 1:58.2 | is just hunting for information? That's the problem Amazon Quick was built to solve. |
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