The Week (US)

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■ The Trump organizati­on is selling its marquee Washington, D.C., hotel to an investment group, which plans to have it rebranded as a Waldorf Astoria, for $375 million. Financial disclosure­s show that revenue for the hotel, housed in the capital’s Old Post Office, fell to $15 million in 2020 and the first few months of 2021, from $40 million in 2019.

The Wall Street Journal

■ The average price of a gallon of gasoline hit $4.68 in California this week, breaking the previous record, set in 2012. That means a typical midsize sedan with a 14-gallon fuel tank costs $21 more to fill up than last year. CNN.com

■ Sales of pregnancy tests are up 13 percent year-overyear since June 2020. The average annual increase between 2016 and 2019 was just 2 percent.

CNBC.com

■ The country’s top 10 most expensive ZIP codes all have median home prices of more than $4 million for the first time. Atherton, Calif., which sits outside of San Francisco in Silicon Valley, is the most expensive ZIP code in the country for the fifth year in a row, with a median home price of $7.5 million. CNN.com

■ Walmart fell behind Home Depot in market value this week, after shares in the home-improvemen­t retailer rose more than 40 percent for the year. The market cap for Home Depot is now $409 billion, compared with $401 billion for Walmart. Bloomberg.com

■ Sixteen percent of U.S. adults say they have invested in, traded, or otherwise used a digital currency. Overall, 86 percent of Americans say they have heard at least a little about cryptocurr­encies. PewResearc­h.org

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