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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest stock exchange in the world, with an equity market capitalization of over 30 trillion U.S. dollars as of September 2024. The following three exchanges were the NASDAQ, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the Japan Exchange Group.
What is a stock exchange?
A stock exchange is a marketplace where stockbrokers, traders, buyers, and sellers can trade in equities products. The largest exchanges have thousands of listed companies. These companies sell shares of their business, giving the general public the opportunity to invest in them. The oldest stock exchange worldwide is the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, founded in the late sixteenth century.
Other functions of a stock exchange
Since these are publicly traded companies, every firm listed on a stock exchange has had an initial public offering (IPO). The largest IPOs can raise billions of dollars in equity for the firm involved. Related to stock exchanges are derivatives exchanges, where stock options, futures contracts, and other derivatives can be traded.
The popularity of ecommerce platform Temu has been surging since its debut in the fall of 2022. In October 2024, the app was downloaded more than 52 million times all over the world, making it more popular than Amazon’s marketplace app.
What is Temu?Temu, which is owned by the Chinese online retailer PDD Holdings, has successfully replicated the meteoric growth of its sister app Pinduoduo in overseas markets through effective marketing campaigns. Focusing on providing low-cost products with free and fast shipping, Temu has emerged as a wallet-saving alternative amidst rising inflation. The newcomer has also followed the playbook of Pinduoduo, such as gamification features and personalized purchase recommendations, to make shopping on mobile more fun.
Who is using Temu?These strategies work. In the first five months of 2023, Temu generated over 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in gross merchandise volume. It has caught the eye of inflation-weary shoppers in the West, particularly young people in the United States and Mexico. In 2023, Temu achieved its first milestone of over 123 million active users in the United States.
Netflix's lower-cost ad-supported plan reached 70 million monthly active users globally in November 2024, marking an increase of 57 million monthly active users compared to the beginning of the year. Netflix introduced an ad-supported tier in November 2022 in response to subscriber losses during the first half of 2022.
In the 2024 presidential election, Republicans received a larger share of votes in every U.S. state compared with 2020, flipping six states in the process. New York saw the greatest increase in Republican votes, reporting 6.43 percent more votes cast for Donald Trump in 2024 than in 2020. Additionally, the share of Republican votes in New Jersey and Florida increased by almost five percent.
During the weekend ending on November 8, 2024, the action movie "Venom: The Last Dance" was the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, collectively known as the North American movie market. Its box office revenue amounted to 16 million U.S. dollars.
The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak persists in the arguably most influential market worldwide. Box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada stood slightly below nine billion dollars in 2023 – more than three billion less than the value recorded in 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, cinema attendance experienced a very similar trajectory. The number of movie tickets sold in Canada and the U.S. amounted to little more than 825 million in 2023. Between 1980 and 2019, it had always surpassed a billion.
When looking only at the northernmost country part of the North American movie market, the post-pandemic recovery was even slower. Box office gross in Canada amounted to around 600 million Canadian dollars in 2023, roughly only two thirds of the result seen in 2019. It is possible that the audience remained cautious after the coronavirus outbreak. As of mid-2021, nearly 70 percent of people aged 14 and above said in a survey that they did not go to a movie theater in Canada throughout the past 12 months.
The number of digital banking users in the U.S. increased sharply between 2017 and 2023, exceeding 52 million by 2023. According to Statista, the user base of digital banks will increase further in the coming years, reaching 80 million by 2028.
In the Pakistan, the male population aged between 20 to 24 amounted to about 9.74 percent of the total male population in 2023. In contrast, the male population aged between 20 to 24 in Hong Kong amounted to about 4.5 percent of the total male population in 2021. The female Gen Z population in the Asia-Pacific region took up a smaller share among the female population overall compared to their male counterparts.
In July 2024, the European Union imported some 783.1 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar. During the period of consideration, import figures saw a net decrease, peaking in July 2022, at 3.4 billion cubic meters. Qatar is one of the most important suppliers of LNG imports to Europe.
As of September, the most valued unicorn company in Germany was Celonis, a software company based in Munich. Celonis was valued at 13 billion U.S. dollars. The second most valued German unicorn was N26, a neobank, valued at 9.23 billion U.S. Dollars.
The Consumer Price Index gauges the price changes in a basket of goods and services in a defined time period. In Argentina, the CPI in April 2024 was 289 percent higher than the one registered the same month of the previous year, with this figure being the largest monthly inflation rate since, at least, the beginning of 2018. The Argentinian inflation rate has been experiencing a steep increase from December 2020 onwards, when the decreasing trend witnessed since December 2019 came to an end.
Long history of inflation in Latin America
High inflation rates are nothing new in Latin America. In 2023, the region's inflation rate was 14.41 percent, while the global average was much lower at 6.78 percent. Nonetheless, the main drivers of this are Venezuela and Argentina, both being in the upper table of countries with the highest inflation rates in the world. During the last few years, Venezuela entered a period with five-digits inflation rates, having to issue a new currency and implementing new policies to control price increases.
A history of hyperinflation
During the last couple of years, inflation has been a constant among the main problems the Argentine society faces. The country returned to a three-digit inflation rate with former president Alberto Fernández, and the constant price increases took a toll on households across the board. Nevertheless, the problem is far from a recent one or the worst it's ever been, in 1989 and 1990, the inflation rate was over 2,000 percent, reaching for the status of hyperinflation. Commonly, hyperinflation is defined as price increases with over 50 percent per month.
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