“We hope that that continues into the fourth quarter.”

In context

“to be strong, but airlines really did pick up. And I think what was really encouraging for us as well was the premium part from an airline perspective. I mean, that was up 14%. When you think about front of the cabin. So that coupled with quarterly billing, quarterly bookings in our US travel consumer travel business, which we're at an all-time high. So I think, you know, look, we're still in a relatively stable, stable environment. I would also point out, as I always point out, our card base is not representative of what's going on across the United States. It truly is a bifurcated economy. We have a small percentage of the cards, but our cardholders are much more premium, and we're lucky to have a much more premium card base. So, you know, we're seeing a little bit of a pickup in spend. We hope that that continues into the fourth quarter. I think what was encouraging for us is also the pickup in small business. You know, we saw 4% growth pick up in large and global as well, which was up at about 6%. And international continues to, you know, just continues to really be really strong. And the last thing I'll say is I think retail spending, especially in the US consumer business, you know, hopefully is a good harbinger for what will come during the holiday season because US consumer business was very strong as well at 9%. So, you know, are we going to see a big accelerant from here? It's not what we're expecting, but we're not also expecting a deceleration as well. Christophe Le Caillec: And on your question about the gain, so it's not a large gain. It's in the range of about $80 million. We called it out because it has an im”