Kyle Risdall

As Marketplace's Samantha Fields reports, consumers didn't start this year feeling quite so down on this economy.

More than half a million people are expected to head for Kansas City, Missouri next summer for the World Cup.

Six matches in all, including an appearance by defending champion Argentina.

And if he's healthy, he said Lionel Messi.

Kansas City is the smallest of the 16 North American cities that are going to host games.

And it has nowhere near enough hotel rooms to accommodate all those visitors, which means Airbnb and VRBO and all the rest are going to be picking up the slack.

Marketplace's Henry Epp reports on the crowds in the Kansas City housing market.

To be candid, we know that we can get probably bigger rents in the short term than we will be able to the long term.

Yes, yes, you can.

First, though, let's do the numbers.

Dow Industrials up 183 points today, four-tenths of 1%, 48,134 for the blue chips.

The Nasdaq grew 301 points, one-and-three-tenths percent, 23,307.

The S&P 500 added 59 points, nine-tenths percent, 68,34 there.

For the five days gone by, the Dow dipped seven-tenths percent.

The Nasdaq increased by about a half percent.

The S&P 500 rose one-tenth of 1%.

TikTok's potential move to the United States...

Kind of, because the algorithm stays in China.

Anyway, it's giving lead buyer Oracle a boost.

China's ByteDance finally agreed to a group of U.S.