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20:03 EDT Fly Intel: Top five weekend stock stories - Catch up on the weekend's top five stories with this list compiled by The Fly: 1. U.S. airlines carried the most passengers in almost 15 months on Friday, rebounding from the pandemic as travelers took advantage of relaxed restrictions and expanding vaccinations to take off for Memorial Day weekend, Bloomberg's Miles Weiss reported. The Transportation Security Administration reported that it screened almost 1.96 million people at airports, compared with 1.85 million on Thursday. That's the most since March 7, 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages, the author noted. Publicly traded companies in the space include Alaska Air (ALK), American Airlines (AAL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), JetBlue (JBLU), Southwest (LUV), Spirit Airlines (SAVE) and United Airlines (UAL). 2. Goodyear Tire (GT) is facing accusations of unpaid wages, unlawful overtime and threats to foreign workers at its Malaysian factory, Reuters' Mei Mei Chu and A. Ananthalakshmi reported, citing court documents and complaints filed by workers. In interviews with Reuters, six current and former foreign workers, and officials with Malaysia's labor department, say Goodyear made wrongful salary deductions, required excessive hours and denied workers full access to their passports. 3. On the surface, Amazon's (AMZN) $8.5 billion deal for MGM Holdings is puzzling as the latter doesn't own an especially compelling set of assets after its library was stripped of its most iconic films long ago, Eric Savitz wrote in this week's edition of Barron's. Yet, there are merits to this deal as it locks up access to some old but familiar content at a time when that's getting harder to do, the author contended. Walt Disney (DIS), Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS (VIAC) and WarnerMedia (T) have all created their own streaming platforms and over time, they'll keep their libraries in-house, limiting the content choices for Amazon's platform, Savitz added, pointing out that now Amazon can play the same game. 4. ViacomCBS (VIAC) subsidiary Paramount's "A Quiet Place II" won Memorial Day weekend box office in North America with a $58.5M debut, which includes a three-day gross of $47.4M. John Krasinski's movie is getting an exclusive theatrical release before hitting sister streaming service Paramount+ in 45 days. Overseas, the horror-thriller earned $22M from six markets for a global total of at least $80M through Monday. 5. Applied Materials (AMAT), Lam Research (LRCX), Herman Miller (MLHR) saw positive mentions in this week's edition of Barron's, while Planet Fitness (PLNT) was mentioned cautiously.
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