Blackstone and Apollo continued to attract investor money, reporting 18% and 30% year-over-year increases, respectively, in the first quarter for their credit divisions’ assets under management. Blue Owl also reported higher overall assets under management from a year ago.

Private-sector layoffs were 10% lower than this time last year.

Nearly 63% of workers are now fully on-site, up from just over half in late 2021. Many other workers have to commute for at least some of the workweeks.

Total trading volume on Polymarket and Kalshihas rocketed to $24.2 billion in April, up from $1.8 billion a year earlier.

Some 55% of borrowers who received mortgage relief in 2024 fell behind again on payments within one year and the FHA is currently approaching a 60 percent redefault rate. Some 46% of borrowers in default as of last September had previously defaulted at least three times.

Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite finished April with their largest monthly gains since 2020, as investors looked past the war in Iran and focused instead on strong earnings and a revived tech trade.

Many Airbnb hosts are experiencing soft demand for bookings for the World Cup, despite significant investments. In Philadelphia, 42% of short-term rentals are booked during the World Cup, with Boston being the only host city with more than half rented.

Only 30% of the federal government’s $1.7 trillion student-loan portfolio is currently being repaid. Among the delinquent student borrowers, 38 percent now have an auto loan, up from 30 percent before the pandemic and the share with a mortgage has nearly doubled, rising from 8 percent in 2019 to 15 percent in 2025.

At least $3.4 billion of investment for build-to-rent projects is frozen in place, according to an early survey of 14 build-to-rent firms. That translates to about 10,000 units of housing and it is likely just a sliver of the impact across the entire build-to-rent industry, which includes more than 1,700 firms.

Year-over-year growth in earnings per share is expected to exceed 13% for the sixth quarter running. Sales are expected to rise more than in any quarter since the fall of 2022.