Investors have pulled a net $2.2 billion from ARK’s active funds this year, topping outflows from all of 2023.

Blackstone Inc.’s Strategic Partners unit sold a $1.1 billion portfolio of private equity fund interests to Ares Management Corp.

Analysts estimate that pensions will unload $325 billion in stocks this year, up from $191 billion in 2023.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. economy has not seen inflation come back to the central bank’s goal, pointing to the further unlikelihood that interest rate cuts are in the offing anytime soon.

Blackstone led a roughly $2 billion financing package to Park Place Technologies to refinance the company’s debt and to fund a payout to its private equity owners. The proceeds will be used to refinance a $845 million first-lien loan that was initially provided by banks and syndicated to institutional investors, as well as a privately placed $230 million second-lien loan.

Fueled in large part by the stock market’s surge and soaring salaries during the post-pandemic labor shortage, the number of Americans with an adjusted gross income of at least $1 million per year jumped 44% between 2020 and 2021 according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service.

Treasury yields jumped and stock prices gyrated following the jobs report. Investors are torn between wanting a strong economy to support further corporate earnings growth and wanting a weaker jobs market that will give the Federal Reserve the green light to begin cutting interest rates.

Chair Jerome Powell said stronger-than-anticipated economic activity this year hasn’t changed the Federal Reserve’s broad expectation that declining inflation will allow for interest-rate cuts this year.

It would take $1.46 million to retire comfortably, according to a recent survey of 4,588 adults released by financial-services company. That is up from $1.27 million a year ago. And over $1 million more than the average survey participant’s nest egg.

McDonald’s will start rolling out Krispy Kreme donuts in the second half of this year, and they will be available all over the country by the end of 2026.