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The number of people who shopped Thanksgiving weekend in the United States had dramatically decreased in 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic and lockdown restrictions. In 2022, a total of 166.3 million people in the United States is forecast to shop during Thanksgiving weekend. This represented an increase of eight million of shoppers compared to the year before. And in 2023, over 180 million potential shoppers were expected over the Thanksgiving weekend, with the majority of shoppers expected on Black Friday.
As of November 2023, "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" was the highest grossing concert movie released in theaters with a total global revenue of 246.37 million U.S. dollars. It surpasses "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never", released in 2011, currently in second position with a total box office revenue of 99 million 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 23.65 billion U.S. dollars in November 2023.
A summer of litigation cause 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 April 2023. The company was purchased by Microsoft in January 2022 in one of the biggest video game acquisitions of all time. After months of negotiations with regulatory bodies around the word, the deal was finalized in October 2023 and the company was taken off the market.
In the third quarter of Nvidia's 2024 fiscal year, revenue rose by 34 percent from the previous quarter to 18.12 billion U.S. dollars. Nvidia's data center revenue, a segment that includes technologies that are being deployed for accelerated computing and generative AI applications, generated 14.51 billion U.S. dollars -up 41 percent from the last quarter and up 279 percent from a year ago.
The winner of the Dutch general election of 2023 is expected to be the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) at 37 of 150 seats. Geert Wilders and his party do not have enough seats to govern by themselves however and must negotiate with the other parties in order to form a governing coalition of at least 76 seats.
In October 2023, one gallon of diesel cost an average of 4.507 U.S. dollars in the United States. That was a price decrease of 6 U.S. cents compared to the previous month.
Impact of Russia-Ukraine war and current events on diesel prices
Diesel prices have risen significantly due to supply constraints in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, followed by transportation issues due to low water levels on the Mississippi river. The West Texas Intermediate price also traded at decade highs as a result.
Diesel and gasoline price development
The usage of distillate fuel oil began in the 1930s, but until further development in the 1960s, diesel vehicles were mostly applied to commercial use only. In the U.S., diesel-powered cars remain a fairly small portion of the automobile market and diesel consumption is far lower than gasoline consumption. In general, gasoline also tends to be more widely available than diesel fuel and usually sells for a lower retail price. However, diesel engines have better fuel economy than gasoline engines, and as such tend to be used for large commercial vehicles.
Tencent News is the most popular news app in China with over 356 million monthly active users as of August 2023. ByteDance's Toutiao was the closest local rival with a user base of around 300 million.All other news apps had below 100 million monthly active users.
In 2022, there were about 13.4 million fixed broadband subscriptions registered in Indonesia. The number of fixed broadband subscriptions registered in Indonesia has been gradually increasing over the past two decades.
Central bank interest rates increased in every European Union (EU) member state between January 2022 and November 2023, though most countries started to lower their rates towards the end of 2023. The rise in central bank interest rates is not a unique European tendency, as policy rates increased in other advanced and emerging economies as well.
The central bank of Hungary set the key interest rate to 13 percent on the 28th of September, making it the highest central bank interest rate in the EU as of September 2023. Despite two decreases in October and November 2023, Hungary's interest rate remained the highest, at 11.5 percent as of November 2023. Bulgaria had the lowest rate at 3.79 percent, although the rate was increased regularly after September 2022.
Why do central bank interest rates increase?
The central bank interest rate, or central bank policy rate, is the rate at which banks borrow from and lend to each other. It is set by central banks and used as a primary tool to maintain stability in a country's financial system. In times of inflation, higher interest rates are a policy response to rising inflation. Higher rates make borrowing more expensive and encourage saving. When debt is more expensive, this in turn can influence consumer demand for goods and services, as well as business investments. This can help slow down inflation when demand exceeds supply. This is why interest rates tend to move in the same direction as inflation, but with a short delay.
Inflation and interest rate in the United States
The monthly inflation rate in the United States started to increase drastically after May 2020, just a few months ahead of the sharp rise in the inflation rate in the EU, and it kept rising until June 2022. Despite rising inflation, the federal funds effective rate in the United States remained relatively low until February 2022. After February 2022, the federal funds effective rate increased sharply.
In October 2023, Sydney Kingsford Smith International airport in Australia saw a total of almost 2.2 million domestic passengers pass through the airport. This was a reduction of around 14 percent on the total number of domestic passengers in the corresponding period of 2019, a change that continues to be influenced by the novel coronavirus outbreak that begun at the end of 2019 and subsequent travel restrictions from early February 2020 onwards.
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