Airlines struggle to cope as travel picks up and storms force delays.

Among the nation’s largest airlines, Southwest Airlines had the most delays, with 30 percent of flights running late, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service.

Paul and Detroit and complicated efforts to get flight crews in place, a spokesman said.

Each of the nation’s major airlines faced significant delays on Sunday, but only American also had substantial cancellations, which affected about 6 percent of flights, according to FlightAware.

All told, American cut about a thousand flights in July, more than 0.5 percent of its schedule that month, according to Cirium, a flight data provider.

Still, just under a fourth of flights operated by American and Southwest had been delayed, while more than a tenth of flights operated by United and Delta had run late.

Despite the complications, the rebound is welcome news across the industry, which has suffered devastating financial losses.

screenings over the past week are down more than 25 percent from the same period in 2019, and corporate travel and international travel, two moneymakers for the airlines, have yet to pick up in any meaningful way.

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The Fed has held its policy interest rate at near-zero since March 2020 and is buying $120 billion in government-backed bonds each month, policies that are meant to keep many kinds of borrowing cheap, pushing money through the economy and bolstering demand.

Fed policymakers at that meeting also predicted they might lift interest rates earlier than they had expected, with more than half estimating two rate increases in 2023.

Investors are now trying to parse that change and figure out what it says about how the Fed is thinking about its inflation goal.

Mr. Powell played down the importance of individual Fed official forecasts for rate increases when he spoke last week.

“My view is that the spike in inflation mostly reflects the temporary effects of the surprisingly rapid opening of the economy,” he said.

“You could see inflation coming in lower than expected,” he said, if supply chain disruptions reverse rapidly or if the global economic recovery lags.

The plant, in Lordstown, near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania, was closed in 2019 and purchased by Lordstown Motors for $20 million.

The company has promised to start production of the Endurance in September, but it has run into development difficulties.

Then Lordstown’s board acknowledged some of the company’s statements about pre-orders were inaccurate, and the company filed a statement with securities regulators that it did not have enough money to start production and that it might not survive.

Last week, Lordstown’s new president, Rich Schmidt, presented a more upbeat outlook, saying the company had enough money to last until May 2022 and that many of its pre-orders were binding agreements.

In February, shortly before the Hindenburg report, a handful of executives sold about $8 million worth of stock.

The Wall Street Journal on Monday raised questions about the timing of the stock trades, in particular Mr. Schmidt’s sale of about $4.6 million worth of shares in early February.

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While inflation has picked up sharply — fueling debate in Washington and on Wall Street over whether the government has overdone its pandemic response — the Fed chair will say that the recent pace of price gains is unlikely to last.

Mr. Powell downplayed the significance of those projections, but did offer a sunny economic outlook, and signaled that the Fed was beginning to talk about when and how to slow down its asset purchases.

The Fed chair is likely to face questions about the central bank’s vast coronavirus rescue package, which saw it backstopping corporate bond markets, municipal debt and even mid-sized businesses amid market turmoil last year.

In 2020, Amblin re-upped with Universal Pictures for another five-year term that involved supplying three to five movies a year to the studio and its subsidiary Focus Features.

In 2019, there was chatter in Hollywood that Mr. Spielberg was gunning for Netflix and intended to propose a rule change at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that would prevent films that primarily debuted on streaming services from being considered for the Oscars.

Global shipping has been disrupted by the pandemic for months, as Western demand for goods made in Asia has outstripped the ability of exporters to get their containers onto outbound vessels.

The shipping delays are related to the Chinese government’s stringent response to a recent outbreak of the virus.

Shenzhen has responded by ordering five rounds of coronavirus testing of all 230,000 people who live anywhere near the Yantian container port, where the first case was detected on May 21.

The port’s capacity to handle containers plummeted early this month.

Long lines of container ships awaiting cargo bound for North America, Europe and elsewhere have had to anchor off Shenzhen and Hong Kong as captains now wait as long as 16 days to dock at Yantian.

“It looks like rush hour — there’s a lot of ships waiting,” said Tim Huxley, the chairman of Mandarin Shipping, a container shipping line based in Hong Kong.

Simon Heaney, the senior manager for container shipping research at Drewry Maritime Research in London, said the global transportation disruption caused by the Yantian port problems was similar to the Suez Canal blockage, although differences between the two incidents make any statistical comparison difficult.

Consumers spent more than $5 billion for flights within the United States in May, a 4 percent drop from April and 20 percent lower than the same month in 2019, according to an analysis based on the Adobe Digital Economy Index.

On Sunday, the agency screened 2.1 million passengers at airport checkpoints, the most in a single day since the pandemic began.

Other countries are increasingly opening up, too.

People are also buying more tickets for later in the year than they were this time in 2019, the year before the pandemic took hold.

In a securities filing this month, American Airlines said strong summer sales helped it generate a cash profit in May for the first time in more than a year.

Slightly more people booked hotel rooms in April and May than in the same months in 2019, according to the index, which is based on data from eight of the top 10 U.S.

People are also spending more on travel related goods.

Founded 25 years ago as a modern update on traditional London gentlemen’s clubs, Soho House has become famous for its series of sleekly designed redoubts for young professionals, originally drawn largely from industries like the arts, fashion and media.

Its membership revenue actually increased during that time — its retention rate was 92 percent, the company said — although in-person sales from restaurants, spas and other club services dropped 60 percent.

The company has also expanded to other types of membership properties, including the Ned, a bigger club popular with London’s financial crowd, and the Scorpios Beach Club in Greece.

More important to the company’s future is its branching out into newer businesses.

And it has increasingly focused on digital offerings, including the planned rollout of a digital membership aimed at people in parts of Asia, Africa and South America, where the company has not yet opened a physical club.

Stocks on Wall Street rallied on Monday, making a comeback after the S&P 500’s worst week since February.

Rental cars have gotten scarce and prices have risen.

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