While homeownership climbs with age, the fastest-growing group of renters is those 55 and older. The share of renters 65 and older rose 30% in the last decade.

The small business optimism index, a gauge of sentiment among small firms, improved to 100.3 in July from 98.6 in June, taking it further above the 98 point that marks the index’s long-term average.

U.S. companies are projected to buyback more than $1.1 trillion worth of stock in 2025, which would mark an all-time high. Buybacks have been particularly concentrated at the top, with the 20 largest companies accounting for almost half of repurchases.

Across the U.S. markets 12,458 deals totaling $182.4 billion transacted in the first half of 2025 — a 15.2% increase in dollar volume and a 25.2% rise in transaction count compared to the first half of 2024. Multifamily and industrial deals made up the bulk of transactions completed in the first half of this year, accounting for 35.4% and 28.4% of dollar volume, respectively.

Hyatt, Marriott and other hotel chains are upgrading pay-one-price resorts to lure affluent travelers.

Buy-Now-Pay-Later use is expected to account for about $100 billion in transactions this year.

Trend-following hedge funds lost 9.6% in the first half of this year, on track for their worst annual performance since at least 1998. Meanwhile, hedge funds more broadly returned 4%, net of fees, while the S&P 500 delivered 6.2% to investors, including dividends.

Markets are pricing in a 64% probability of a 25bp cut in September and expect approximately 100 bps of cuts over the next year. Meanwhile, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield is trading at 4.33%, near the lower end of its year-to-date range.

The months of supply for condos, which indicates how long it would take to sell the existing inventory at the present sales rate, is near a 10-year high. Besides a momentary peak at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it hasn’t been so high since the early 2010s.

In the Russell 3000, 41.5% of chief executives are at least 60 years old, up from 35.1% in 2017. Over the same period, the share of CEOs in their 30s and 40s has grown to 15.1% from 13.8%. People in their 50s held 51.1% of CEO seats eight years ago and now occupy 43.4%.