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These Are Passengers' Most Likedand LoathedAirports
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Passengers looking for a satisfactory airport experience might want to avoid Newark, Philadelphia, or Cleveland.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul is North American travelers' favorite "mega" airport, according to a new annual survey from J.D. Power, while Newark came in last in the category for the third straight year.
John Wayne in Orange County, Calif., was deemed the best "large" airport, while Indianapolis topped the "medium" rankings. Philadelphia and Cleveland came in last in those respective categories.
The study, conducted from August 2023 through July 2024, gathered insights from more than 26,000 passengers who traveled through at least one U.S. or Canadian airport during the past 30 days, evaluating factors like ease of travel, terminal facilities, and food, beverage, and retail options.
The survey also found that an airport's being perceived as crowded was one of the biggest drags on its overall satisfaction score. Travelers also are spending an average of $3.53 less per person in airports in 2024 than last year.
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Watch These HP Enterprise Price Levels As Stock Drops After Earnings
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) shares fell in premarket trading Thursday, even as the storage and server maker's fiscal third-quarter earnings topped analysts' estimates. The company, while lifting its annual profit guidance, left its full-year revenue forecast unchanged, possibly disappointing investors amid lofty expectations for artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled sales growth.
The enterprise technology giant’s stock has gained about 10% since the start of the year through Wednesday’s close, benefiting from strong growth in its AI server business as companies ramp up spending on infrastructure to run generative AI and machine learning applications.
Below, we take a closer look at the technicals on the HP Enterprise weekly chart and point out important post-earnings price levels to watch out for. The stock was down 3.3% at $18.15 about two hours before Thursday's opening bell.
HP Enterprise shares broke out from an ascending triangle in June on the largest weekly trading volume since early November 2015, only to retrace the move throughout most of July, However, the stock found buying interest last month on a retest of the pattern’s top trendline and rising 50-day moving average (MA), potentially flipping the initial breakout area from prior resistance into future support.
Amid the possibility for post-earnings price swings, investors should keep a close eye on the following chart levels.
Firstly, results-driven selling could see another retest of the breakout area around $17.50, where buyers would likely look to place bids near the ascending triangle’s top trendline, which also forms part of a multi-year trendline extending back to May 2018.
A failure to hold this level could trigger a decline to the $16.50 level, a location currently just above the upward sloping 200-day MA where investors may look for buying opportunities near the descending triangle’s lower trendline.
An initial overhead level to focus on sits around $21.60, where the stock may run into resistance near a range of similar trading levels positioned near its record close in July.
Investors can also forecast a price target using the measuring principle, sometimes referred to the measuring move technique. To do this, we calculate the distance between the ascending triangle’s two trendline towards the start of the pattern and add that amount to the initial breakout point. In this case, the technique projects an upside target of $23 ($5.50 + $17.50), just above the stock's all-time high (ATH) at $22.82.
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Trump Signs New Executive Order To Change Election Rules: What We Know
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The order says voters must provide proof of US citizenship and only ballots received by Election Day will be counted. United States President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that he argues is aimed at tightening election rules ahead of the 2026 midterms, touching upon a claim he has frequently made – without evidence – of large-scale election fraud. Titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” the new order introduces strict new requirements that voters must meet in order to cast their ballot. Here is what we know: To prevent non-Americans from voting in a federal election – an act that is already illegal and punishable by prison time and deportation – the order requires voters to submit official proof of US citizenship, such as a US passport or a birth certificate. Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, will be required to share data to help state officials identify non-citizens on voter rolls. However, voting rights groups have raised concerns that the citizenship requirements could lead to voter disenfranchisement. “This would prevent only a tiny amount of noncitizen voter registration but stop millions of eligible voters, who do not have easy access to documents such as passports, from registering to vote,” Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a blog post. There are also concerns that married women who have changed their last names may face difficulties registering to vote, as their birth certificates reflect their maiden names. The advocacy group Public Citizen pointed out that roughly 146 million Americans do not have a passport. Now Trump wants to make it HARDER to vote if your name doesn’t exactly match on every doc?? That hits married folks who change their names, disaster survivors who lost paperwork, and so many others. This ain’t about security—it’s suppression. https://t.co/n7qYiN1i7O — Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@RepJasmine) March 26, 2025 All mail ballots are required to be received by Election Day to be counted according to the executive order, aiming to standardise the voting process across states. ​ Across the country, states currently have wide latitude to administer elections differently – but none allow votes to be counted if they are cast after Election Day. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a nonprofit organisation, 18 states, including battleground states, currently accept mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, provided they are postmarked on or before that day. California, the most populous state in the country, is often cited for its prolonged vote-counting process – it allows ballots to be counted up to seven days after the election, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. States that do not comply with some of these new requirements risk losing federal election funding. ​ “The Attorney General shall take appropriate action against states that count ballots received after Election Day in Federal elections. Federal election funding will be conditioned on compliance,” the executive order says. This could place significant financial pressure on states, especially those that currently allow more flexible voting procedures. Electoral campaign financing happens at the federal, state and local levels, with funding coming from individuals, corporations, political action committees (PACs), and, in some cases, government. ​In March 2024, the US Congress allocated $55m in new federal funding to states under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to enhance the administration and security of federal elections. ​ This funding was distributed among all US states and territories based on a predetermined formula, which considers factors such as the size of the voting-age population. Trump’s order also instructs the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, to ensure that states have access to systems capable of verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote. It also directs the Department of Homeland Security, along with an official from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, to review state voter registration lists – and, if needed, use subpoenas – to ensure compliance with federal standards. “DOGE certainly has no power to kick people off rolls. But they could make a lot of noise trying to claim they’ve found fraud when they find that voter registration rolls are not being kept up to date,” Richard Hasen wrote. President Trump signs executive order on election integrity, which will include putting a citizenship question on the federal voting form. pic.twitter.com/dcUmya6Z8y — CSPAN (@cspan) March 25, 2025 Trump’s order is likely to face legal challenges, given that the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said he and state Attorney General Kris Mayes are already in discussions about a possible lawsuit, describing the executive order as “an attempt to federalise elections”. Fontes said that the order appears aimed at creating the illusion of misconduct in the electoral process, potentially to justify “cancelling the election later”. “It’s very methodical, and very, very dangerous,” he said in an interview with Votebeat , a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom focused specifically on US elections, on Tuesday. “You have to pay attention not to what the executive order says, but what the end game may be. I believe the end game may be that Donald Trump wants to stay in office in perpetuity.” Conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation, praised the order. “President Trump is finally taking the action long needed to put the resources of federal agencies like the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to work helping states, instead of trying to hinder their efforts to reform our election process, which was an unfortunate hallmark of the Biden administration,” Hans von Spakovsky, who leads the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative wrote in a statement. Trump has often questioned the outcomes of elections that have not gone his way, including his 2020 defeat to former US President Joe Biden, which he falsely attributed to widespread voting irregularities. Follow Al Jazeera English:...
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Microsoft's Earnings Exceed Expectations But Cloud Growth Forecast Disappoints
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Microsoft (MSFT) delivered fiscal first-quarter earnings that topped Street expectations, but shares fell after a warning its cloud growth could slow.
The tech titan's third-quarter revenue rose 16% year-over-year to $65.59 billion, above the analyst consensus from Visible Alpha. Net income at $24.67 billion or $3.30 per share was up from $22.29 billion or $2.99 per share a year earlier and higher than expectations. 
Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud segment, which includes its Azure cloud computing platform, led growth with revenue of $24.09 billion, up 20% as revenue from Azure and other cloud services climbed 33%. However, executives warned in the tech giant's earnings call that cloud growth could slow to between 31% and 32% in the second quarter, before picking up in the back half of the fiscal year. 
Shares of Microsoft tumbled over 5% in early trading Thursday, a day after the company's earnings call.
Microsoft's results Wednesday came a day after Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) beat analysts’ expectations and CEO Sundar Pichai said the company’s investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are “paying off and driving success.”
Microsoft, like Alphabet and other tech giants, has boosted its investments in AI this year to secure its position as a leader in the space, raising concerns about higher spending and whether its AI efforts will be worth the cost.
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