Axios

Some hotels are offering new baby amenities tailor-made, ultimately, for parents to relax.

Driving the news: From butlers and body massages, to custom and room-service baby food, luxury hotels are extending their white-glove ways to the tiniest of patrons, WSJ reports.

Hollywood's slower than usual summer is hurting movie theaters.

Why it matters: Audience attendance has rebounded since theater doors have reopened — but the explosion of streaming options coupled with the health crisis has changed moviemaking, and watching, permanently.

So far, Tether has only given the market transparency around exactly four days each year.

Why it matters: Tether is the third biggest cryptocurrency in the world, with a $67.5 billion market cap, and it's the most widely traded against the biggest cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum.

It will cost $26,000 more to raise a child through high school today than it did just two years ago, a Brookings Institution estimate has found.

Driving the news: A married, middle-income couple with two children is likely to spend $310,605 — an average of $18,271 a year — to raise their youngest child born in 2015, per Brookings, which first shared the estimates to the Wall Street Journal.

Walmart told employees Friday that it will expand abortion coverage for certain cases, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.

The big picture: Corporations are facing increasing pressure to expand abortion coverage in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Walmart, the U.S.'s largest employer, is headquartered in Arkansas, where abortions are banned except in cases where the pregnant person's life is threatened.

Starbucks pulled its brand from Russia in May, but the coffee shop that's replacing it might conjure familiar feelings.

Driving the news: Stars Coffee on Friday opened its doors in Moscow, emblazoning its stores and cups with a logo that doesn't make much of an attempt to forget the American company that left.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has called on 10 of the biggest U.S. airlines to help stranded and delayed passengers.

The big picture: Buttigieg said in letters sent to major air carriers on Thursday that recent travel disruptions have been "unacceptable," and warned that the Department of Transportation might adopt new rules to help passengers who are facing heavy cancellations and delayed flights amid a summer of revenge travel.

Prices are falling on a host of important products, and supply chains are starting to sort themselves out, too.

Why it matters: These are two very clear, undeniable pieces of good economic news. High prices and product bottlenecks aren't gone, but they're getting a lot better.

China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin plan to attend the G20 summit in Bali later this year, according to Indonesian officials.

The big picture: President Biden is expected to attend November's forum, setting the stage for the first summit involving the leaders of the U.S., China and Russia since Putin's forces invaded Ukraine and tensions between Washington and Beijing became further heightened after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.