The equity risk premium—the gap between the S&P 500’s earnings yield and that of 10-year Treasurys—sits around 1.59 percentage points, a low not seen since October 2007. That is well below the average gap of around 3.5 points since 2008.

The number of global travelers increased to nearly 7 billion in 2022, a 54% increase from the prior year. But 2022 figures came in about 26% less than 2019.

Investors purchased $14 billion of apartment buildings in the first quarter of 2023. That represents a 74% decline in sales from the same quarter a year earlier and is the largest annual sales decline for any quarter going back to a 77% drop in the first quarter of 2009.

Extra Space Storage Inc. has struck a $12.7 billion deal to combine with smaller rival Life Storage Inc., which earlier rejected a bid from industry behemoth Public Storage. the deal would create the largest storage-facility operator in the country by number of locations. Including debt, the combined company would have an enterprise value of roughly $47 billion. 

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures home prices across the nation, fell 0.2% in January compared with December on a seasonally adjusted basis. Prices have fallen for seven straight months, the longest streak of declines since 2012.

Ten of the country’s 25 largest metropolitan areas lost population during the one-year period. The gainers were all in the South or West, with the exception of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, which recorded a small gain after losing residents the year before.

Cancellations were a major headache for travelers in 2022 with about 181,000 flights scrapped by the largest U.S. airlines. Only 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, and 2020, the start of the pandemic, had more flight cancellations over the past two decades.

The FDIC estimated the failure of SVB will cost a federal insurance fund it oversees about $20 billion, or roughly 10% of the bank’s assets before its failure.

Within the next three years, loans are maturing on more than 9,500 office buildings and 17% of all U.S. office stock.

This year will be critical because about $270 billion in commercial mortgages held by banks are set to expire—the highest figure on record. Most of these loans are held by banks with less than $250 billion in assets.