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Airline stocks drop after a jet-fuel crack spread widens into the holiday

Labor Day is supposed to be a demand story. This week it was an input-cost story.

Elena VasquezSenior Markets Correspondent
Stock market data on a digital display

Stock market data on a digital display

NEW YORK — Labor Day is supposed to be a demand story. This week it was an input-cost story.

Carriers with less aggressive hedges underperformed after the crack moved in a way that hits the September quarter before the fare data can catch up.

Elena Vasquez

Senior Markets Correspondent

Covers Treasuries, the dollar, and the policy signals that reprice risk assets.