long weekend

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A Citadel strategist looked at prediction market changes during the Memorial Day long weekend to calculate market moves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Investors are returning from the long weekend with some optimism as that old chestnut — hopes for an Iran peace pact — is helping push bond yields lower and stock futures higher.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

French authorities suspended the European Union's new digital border check system at Britain's Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at the start of the long weekend.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

A decade later, I returned to see if I could recapture the wonder of that first trip—and do so with a strict budget of $1,000 for a long weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

“You can’t get a group together for a long weekend without Ernest’s effect on them,” he reflected later.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik