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As of November 2024, Nintendo held the top spot among the largest gaming companies by market cap. The multinational gaming company is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, and develops as well as publishes both video games and gaming consoles. Nintendo’s market cap was 65 billion U.S. dollars, ahead of second-ranked Electronic Arts with 42 billion U.S. dollars.
(Formerly) indie gaming company Roblox Corporation started trading publicly on March 10, 2021, and closed its first day of trading activity with a market cap of over 37 billion U.S. dollars, ahead of several well-established industry heavyweights. After a significant decline throughout 2022 and 2023, Roblox Corporation was still ranked among the biggest gaming companies worldwide, with a market cap of 23.89 billion U.S. dollars in April 2024.
A summer of litigation caused Activision Blizzard's value to drop and the company to be relegated to second place with a market cap of nearly 46.98 billion U.S. dollars in October 2021 before bouncing back to 67.06 billion U.S. dollars in early 2023. Microsoft purchased the company in January 2022 in one of the biggest video game acquisitions of all time. After months of negotiations with regulatory bodies around the world, the deal was finalized in October 2023, and the company was taken off the market.
As of November 20, 2024, Bluesky, a microblogging platform that was proposed as a Twitter alternative, had a total of 20 million users, up from 13 million in October 2024.
In 2024, global quick service restaurant brand Subway accounted for over 25 thousand stores worldwide. The majority of stores, approximately 20.4 thousand, were located in Subway's home country of the United States.
Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and Christmas are the most popular holidays in the United States. According to a survey conducted in the third quarter of 2024, Thanksgiving had a popularity rating of 78 percent, followed by Memorial Day and Christmas with 77 percent and 76 percent respectively. Other favorite holidays among Americans, including both national and religious events, are Father's Day, Veterans Day, and Mother's Day.
The price of one euro reached approximately 112.6 Russian rubles on average in November 2024, having marked an increase compared to the previous month. The exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the Russian ruble also grew relative to October 2024.
As of November 28, 2024, The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021) was the highest-grossing movie of all time in China. The three-hour Chinese blockbuster was also the most expensive film ever made to date in the country. Avengers: Endgame (2019) was the only foreign film in the top ten ranking. The Marvel superhero film generated a total box office revenue of over 4.25 billion yuan in China. In recent years, the country has invested a great deal of its resources in film making and distribution.
China remains a significant share in global's cinema market. Similar to other leading cinema markets in the world, China’s film industry primarily produces feature films. Sci-fi movies were considered the most undersupplied genre among Chinese audience. The Wandering Earth received much critical acclaim as one of China’s most stunning sci-fi productions, grossing about 4.7 billion yuan in box office revenue. Critics lauded it as China’s answer to Hollywood productions such as Interstellar and Gravity.
Foreign films often face a strict censorship by the Chinese authorities. Hollywood productions, like Avatar, Deadpool, The Da Vinci Code, were banned because of sensitive topics or conveying ideologies contradictory to traditional Chinese values. Although more overseas filmmakers are trying to avoid content considered unfavorable by the Chinese government, the market share of imported movies in terms of movie screenings has remained below 30 percent since 2015. In terms of box office revenues, foreign enterprises made up less than 17 percent of the total revenue since 2020. In 2023, none of the Hollywood movies could earn over one billion yuan in box office revenue in the Chinese market.
The Nikkei 225 Index reached an all-time high in 2024, with a closing value of 42,426.77 on July 11. This was the highest daily closing price since the index peaked at 38,957.44 in 1989.
The Nikkei 225 is a price-weighted stock market index that has been calculated by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) newspaper since 1950. It comprises 225 constituents listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
Fianna Fáil won 48 seats in the Republic of Ireland's 2024 general election, nine ahead of Sinn Féin, who won 39 seats. Independent candidates won 16 seats, while the Irish Green Party won just a single seat, compared with 12 in the previous election.
In the first quarter of 2024, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Brazil increased by 1.1 percent when compared to the previous quarter (seasonally adjusted). In comparison to the same quarter of the previous year, Brazil's GDP grew 2.6 percent.
GDP refers to the total market value of all goods and services that are produced within a country per year. It is an important indicator of the economic strength of a country.
BHP Group was ranked number one among the coal mining companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange as of December 2024, with a market capitalization of over 206 billion Australian dollars. BHP Group is a multinational, diversified natural resources company and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
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