The bottom line

■ The average annual cost of owning a new car has hit $10,738, surpassing $10,000 for the first time ever, according to auto club AAA. Tesla leads all car brands with the biggest price hike in 2022 (20.5 percent), according to Kelley Blue Book, ahead of Porsche (18.9 percent) and Honda (18.4 percent). Money.com

■ Total job openings in construction hit 440,000 in April, the most in Bureau of Labor Statistics records going back to 2001. That’s opened a door for women: The number of female construction employees topped 1 million in May of last year, a first since data began to be collected in 1964. Bloomberg

■ In July, 17.5 percent of deals made with builders on a new-construction home fell through, compared with 8 percent in April and 7.5 percent in July 2021. Roughly 63,000 contracts on existing homes also fell apart in July, representing about 16 percent of all homes that went under contract.

CNBC.com

■ The percentage of box office revenue that has gone toward Rrated films is the lowest it’s been in over 25 years. Only one movie that grossed over $100 million in 2021 was rated R.

Axios

■ Saudi Aramco’s secondquarter profit jumped 90 percent over the same period a year ago, passing $48 billion. The state-owned oil giant’s capital investment program increased 25 percent to

$9.4 billion, the largest outlay in its history.

The New York Times

■ U.K. inflation reached double digits in July, hitting 10.1 percent, the highest rate among the leading world economies that make up the Group of Seven.

The Wall Street Journal