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.

On Monday, derivatives markets showed investors saw a 65% chance of a half-point cut. That’s up from 50-50 odds on Friday.

The Treasury Department released 603 pages of proposed rules for the corporate alternative minimum tax, or CAMT, an exceptionally complex endeavor for regulators and corporate tax executives. The proposal comes more than two years after Congress passed the law creating the tax and more than 20 months after it took effect.

American and overseas companies have committed nearly half a trillion dollars to build new factories for electric vehicles, semiconductors and other products in the U.S. Investors are planning to acquire or build warehouses, hotels, office buildings and apartments near coming factories across the Sunbelt and Rust Belt, where most of these so-called onshoring projects are under way, wagering that as new manufacturing hubs come online and create jobs they will produce a “multiplier effect,” with growing employment increasing demand for homes, shopping and more.

The delinquency ratio for CRE loans across banks rose 16 basis points in the second quarter, to 1.4% the seventh consecutive quarterly increase. Also year-over-year CRE loan growth across U.S. banks slowed to 2.2% in the second quarter, compared to 2.9% the prior quarter and down substantially from a recent peak of 12.1% in the third quarter of 2022.

Going back to 1928, the S&P 500 has declined an average 1.2% in September, the weakest month of the year for stocks. The index ended lower 56% of the time over that stretch.

This year through late July, there have been 13 megadeals globally—defined as those valued at more than $5 billion—versus eight in all of 2023. Transaction value totaled $123.64 billion as of July, far more than the roughly $75 billion in megadeals struck in all of last year.

Biotech and pharmaceutical buildings became one of the hottest investments in commercial property at the start of the pandemic. Now, the glut of life-sciences properties has gotten so bad that some developers are exploring the unthinkable: marketing the space for office use.

In July, the annual pace of multifamily-building starts was down 22% from the same month a year earlier, and down 41% from an April 2022 peak. Apartment starts fell to less than 61,000 units in the second quarter, the lowest level in the past decade.

U.S. households’ stock allocations have steadily inched up this year and recently accounted for around 42% of their total financial assets. That is the most on record in data going back to 1952.