The bottom line

$375m

The selling price of Donald Trump’s Trump International Hotel in Washington – a record price for a hotel in the US capital. The former US president will make a profit of around $100m after repaying a $170m mortgage from Deutsche Bank and deducting losses incurred during the pandemic. The hotel will be rebranded as Waldorf Astoria and run by Hilton.

£500,000

What chancellor Rishi Sunak is to spend on focus groups and opinion polls between now and February 2023, says the Daily Mirror. Sunak will commission two focus groups and one poll per week from Deltapoll, at a cost of £9,805 a week. This will take the total amount the Treasury has spent on polling since June 2020 to £1.35m.

£29.6m

The size of the fortune that the Rolling Stones’s drummer Charlie Watts left to his family when he died last year. The amount does not include the value of his estate in France, which is reportedly worth several million more.

$8m

How much hedgefund billionaire Ken Griffin spent at a charity auction for a flight to space on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket. Griffin doesn’t plan to take up the seat himself – he will donate it to a New York school teacher.

£15.2m

The total fines issued by a traffic-camera system at Bank in London in the last three years. In 2021, it was responsible for 40% of all such fines issued in the Square Mile.

$211,529

What 2008 US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin received from making personalised video greetings on the Cameo app last year. The amount is $37,529 higher than the annual salary for a member of the House of Representatives. Palin (pictured) is attempting a political comeback by running for the house in an election later this year.