Investors have added about $135 billion to global money-market funds over the past four weeks. That is the best stretch since the four-week period ended May 2020, when those funds logged roughly $175 billion in net inflows.

In the third quarter this past year, business travel reached 71% of prepandemic levels. That is up from 35% during the same quarter in 2021. Small and medium-size businesses are driving the recovery with transactions by this segment reaching 80% of prepandemic levels in the third quarter.

Big banks are teaming up to launch a digital wallet that will allow shoppers to pay at merchants’ online checkout with a wallet that will be linked to their debit and credit cards. The digital wallet will be managed by Early Warning Services, the bank-owned company that operates money-transfer service Zelle will operate separately from Zelle.

The average announced SPAC merger value has fallen to about $200 million so far in January, down from more than $2 billion for much of 2021 during the sector’s peak.

For the first time since 2018, larger hedge funds outperformed smaller hedge funds. HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index, which gives equal weight to funds of all sizes, fell -4.25% in 2022, while the HFRI Asset Weighted Composite Index, which gives more weighting to the larger funds, rose: 0.97%.

The average discount for “super-prime” luxury apartment units in Manhattan, defined as properties selling for $10 million or more, during the seconed half of last year was 12%.

The cost of insuring commercial real-estate loans against a rise in interest rates has exploded over the past year, raising the prospect of a market selloff since many property owners will no longer be able to afford these hedges. Property owners are paying 10 times as much to insure loans against rising interest rates as a year ago.

The classic way of building a portfolio—60% stocks and 40% bonds—had the worst return in nominal terms for a 60/40 portfolio since the financial crisis of 2008-9 and the worst in real terms in a calendar year since the Great Depression.

Foreclosure filings soared 115% in 2022 compared to the prior year as the last of the federal moratoriums expired, but they were still 34% lower than 2019 levels.

While GDP is expected to dip, STR’s latest forecast for 2023 has U.S. hotel demand increasing 2.8% and RevPAR, increasing 3.4%. RevPAR growth is expected to be evenly split between higher occupancy and an increase in ADR, each growing at the same rate of 1.7%.