Apollo Global Management Inc. said it expects its assets under management to double to about $1 trillion by 2026.

Credit-card spending at restaurants and retailers excluding gasoline stations rose 1.5% between August and September. In particular, spending at restaurants and bars rose 2.3%, the data showed, suggesting that customers didn’t let the Delta variant hold them back.

U.S. inflation accelerated slightly in September, rising 5.4% from a year before as supplies and labor continued to drive up prices.

A national survey AHLA commissioned this summer found 67% of U.S. business travelers are likely to take fewer trips, and 68% plan shorter trips. The survey of 2,200 adults, a group that included 414 regular business travelers, found that just over half of the business travelers planned to cancel their existing travel plans and not reschedule.

Banks have announced more than $54 billion in deals through late September. That puts industry mergers and acquisitions on pace for their biggest year since 2008, when some big banks had to sell themselves to stave off collapse.

Apollo unit backs Hong Kong insurer FWD’s $3 billion U.S. IPO. Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li’s FWD Group landed a $400 million investment as part of the Asian insurer’s plans for a multibillion-dollar U.S. listing.

Invesco is in talks to merge with State Street’s asset-management business. State Street’s asset-management unit manages nearly $4 trillion in assets while Invesco oversees $1.5 trillion in assets and manages a large ETF business.

Median household income was $67,500 in 2020, down 2.9% from the prior year.

The business is growing rapidly. One group of crypto lenders has $25 billion in loans outstanding to individual and institutional clients, up from $1.4 billion a year ago.

Between Aug. 3 and Aug. 26, airlines dropped approximately 77,000 domestic flights in the United States as the Covid-19 Delta variant flared.