By 2022, 53%—more than half of all U.S counties—drew at least a quarter of their income from government aid.

In 2019, 13% of reporting hotels in the top 25 U.S. markets charged an average daily rate of at least $200, in 2024, that figure is just over 20%.

Income generated from money markets surged to more than $27 billion in August, a record on an inflation-adjusted basis going back to 1990.

The gap between food-price and wage inflation between the end of 2019 and the second quarter of this year was roughly four percentage points.

Blackstone has agreed to sell the economy hotel chain Motel 6 and sister brand Studio 6 to India’s Oyo in an all-cash transaction valued at $525 million. The private equity giant acquired Motel 6 in 2012 from Accor for $1.9 billion. Blackstone exits its 12-year hold of Motel 6 having more than tripled its investors’ capital and generating over $1 billion in profit through executing an asset-light campaign, selling off owned assets and focusing on franchising.

The value of commercial real-estate loans in foreclosure nearly tripled between January and August this year to reach $19.2 billion.

Apollo Global Management Inc. clinched $5 billion in fresh firepower from BNP Paribas SA as it looks to grow its private lending business.

Powell has prioritized consensus building, reflected in a string of 17 meetings with no dissenting votes. That came to an end on Wednesday as some of Powell’s colleagues had implied they were more comfortable leading off with a smaller cut.

Only 7% of large tech companies require employees to be in the office five days a week, compared with 33% for all U.S. companies.

Between 2018 and 2022, the share of households with annual incomes of more than $750,000 that rented rose to 10.5%, the highest level since the survey began in the mid-2000s. It was 8.4% in the previous five-year period.