In July through September, cruise line Royal Caribbean booked twice as many 2023 reservations than in the previous quarter this year. Corporate travelers are booking car rentals at a brisk pace. Hotels are seeing more guests, even as room rates rise with inflation.
In October, the median selling price of a U.S. single-family home was $398,500, up 8.6 percent from a year earlier. That rate of increase is almost half that of this year’s second quarter, when prices were rising at a 14.2-percent annual rate.
From 1 October 2021 through 9 November this year, an index following investment-grade corporate bond prices lost about 20 percent of its value, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Commercial real estate developers including Brookfield Asset Management, Kilroy Realty, and Vornado Realty Trust have halted progress on major new office projects, The Wall Street Journal reported.
As the data prove, and as we have reported, hard facts and figures don’t count. In the 12 months following each of the 40 midterm elections in the U.S., the S&P 500 has gained an average of 15 percent.