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A12 BUSINESS
Friday 3 February 2023

Free hotel breakfasts are getting bigger

and better

By SALLY FRENCH of Nerd-
Wallet
Kimberly Button normally
skips breakfast. But on va-
cation, the hotel breakfast
buffet is a highlight.
She’s drawn to the oat-
meal bar, where she trans-
forms bland grains with an
array of toppings — choco-
late chips, coconut flakes
and berries. Sometimes she
grabs fruit to take with her
and nosh on throughout
the day. Hector Perez prepares to wrap a bacon, egg and cheese
At Disney World, the star of sandwich at a bodega in the Bronx section of New York, Friday,
breakfast is Mickey-shaped July 22, 2022.
waffles. When dining at the Associated Press
cafe inside Disney’s Grand Wanderful World of Travel wise pay $25 per person at
Floridian Resort & Spa blog. “When you can get brunch.
(which does not offer free a Mickey-shaped waffle for And then there’s the time
breakfast), waffles cost $15 free, wouldn’t you?” savings and convenience.
a pop. But for stays at non- SAVING MONEY, TIME AND Gone is the anxiety of re-
Disney properties such as ENERGY searching the perfect cafe,
the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Complimentary breakfast only to meet a waitlist after
Kissimmee, you can indulge is the most frequently used a pricey cab ride there. No
in as many Mickey-shaped search filter on Hilton’s debating which restaurant
waffles as you want as part website, according to the to patronize or which en-
of its complimentary break- Hilton 2023 Trends Report. tree to order, as you can try
fast buffet. “I’ve eaten at Free breakfast can be a it all at the buffet. And you
hotel breakfasts around money-saver, especially won’t starve while waiting
the world, but the break- for families or larger groups. for your jet-lagged com-
fasts in Orlando hotels are A $100 room that includes panions to wake up, as you
the busiest I’ve ever seen,” food for four can feel prac- can munch on your own
says Button, who runs the tically free if you’d other- schedule.q

It’s Wall Street’s favorite year of the

presidential cycle

By STAN CHOE of 15.9% during the last full more than triple the 2.1%
AP Business Writer year before an election, average for every first quar-
NEW YORK (AP) — You may compared with an overall ter over that span.q
One line of thinking says
Wall Street rises in antici-
pation of the White House
passing economically
popular measures in hopes
of staying in office. The dif-
ference could also just be
statistical luck. But it’s hap-
pened enough that profes-
sional investors pay at least
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in some attention to it, even if
New York, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. not all the candidates run-
Associated Press ning in 2024 are known yet.
The last time a president
be sick of politics, but Wall average of 9.2% for every was in Year 3, in 2019 under
Street is just getting to its fa- year. Most of that better- Donald Trump, the S&P 500
vorite part of the presiden- than-usual performance is soared nearly 29%.
tial calendar. packed into the first half of This year, there may be less
The third year of the presi- Year 3, according to data appetite for big govern-
dential cycle has histori- from CFRA Research. In the ment programs that could
cally been the best for the first three months of Year 3, stimulate the economy,
stock market. Going back for example, the S&P 500 because they could also
to the start of 1945, the S&P has historically climbed an potentially ignite inflation-
500 has risen an average average of 6.9%, which is ary pressures. q