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As of August 2022, the Google Chrome browser accounted for 65.35 percent of global market share for internet browsers. Apple’s Safari browser was the second most popular internet browser around the world, accounting for over 18 percent of market share. Apart from these two, no other browser controlled more than five percent of the overall market share.
Internet use
With billions of people around the world having some form of access to the technology, around half of the world’s population can be classified as internet users. In countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany, a big majority of citizens access the internet on a daily basis, whether it be for work or personal entertainment. In the United States, the average adult spends hours per day online, once again showing the large importance of internet in peoples’ daily lives.
Web browsers
Web browsers serve as the platform through which users from across the globe access the contents of the internet. With the help of a web browser, users can access a huge variety of content including entertainment sites, social media, and online shopping retailers. In recent years, social media sites such as Facebook have become some of the most popular sites, with users determined to keep up-to-date with the digital presence of their friends, families, and favorite celebrities.
In July 2022, the global PMI amounted to 48 for new export orders and 51.1 for manufacturing. The manufacturing PMI was a it's lowest point since August of 2020. It has been decreasing consistently over the last couple of months.
As of June 2022, Amazon accounted for 37.8 percent of the U.S. e-commerce market, making it by far the leading online retailer the country. Second place was occupied by the e-commerce site of retail chain Walmart, with a 6.3 percent market share, followed in third place by Apple, with 3.9 percent.
Between March 4 and March 11, 2020, the S&P 500 index dropped by twelve percent, descending into a bear market. On March 12, 2020, the S&P 500 plunged 9.5 percent, its steepest one-day fall since 1987. The index began to recover at the start of April, and as of January 20, 2021 had reached a new record of 3,849.62.68. As of August 3, 2022 the weekly value of the S&P 500 stood at 4,155.17 points.
Coronavirus sparks stock market chaos
Stock markets plunged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with investors fearing its spread would destroy economic growth. Buoyed by figures that suggested cases were leveling off in China, investors were initially optimistic about the virus being contained. However, confidence in the market started to subside as the number of cases increased worldwide. Investors were deterred from buying stocks, and this was reflected in the markets – the values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite also dived during the height of the crisis.
What is a bear market?
A bear market occurs when the value of a stock market suffers a prolonged decline of more than 20 percent over a period of at least two months. The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe concern and sent stock markets on a steep downward spiral. The S&P 500 achieved a record closing high of 3,386 on February 19, 2020. However, just over three weeks later, the market closed on 2,480, which represented a decline of around 26 percent in only 16 sessions.
In 2021, wholesale electricity prices in the European Union (EU) soared, with most countries experiencing record levels in December. The combination of a myriad of factors – including increased demand in the “post-pandemic” economic recovery, a rise in natural gas and coal prices, and a drop in renewable power generation due to low wind speeds – the spike in European electricity prices was one aspect of a global energy supply shortage which has seen energy prices grow around the globe. The trend was further aggravated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, causing prices to spike again in the following month.
Surging gas and coal prices driving electricity costs
As natural gas and coal are among the leading sources of electricity generation in the EU, accounting for roughly one-third of the output in 2021, electricity rates are highly dependent on the price of these commodities. Natural gas prices in Europe increased continuously throughout 2021, as reserves reached worrying low levels in the region and Russia, the main source of natural gas in Europe, kept exports low in order to replenish its own depleted stocks.
Different rises for different countries
While the energy supply shortage hit Europe as a whole, the impact on each country’s electricity price varied. In June 2022, Italy recorded the highest figure in the region, at more than 271.5 euros per megawatt-hour. The country is the European Union’s leading electricity net importer. Greece experienced similarly high electricity prices that month. Meanwhile, Sweden– where hydropower and nuclear energy account for a large share of the country's electricity generation– saw a less pronounced growth in prices in the period.
Germany have won the most UEFA European Women's Championships, winning a total of eight titles between 1982 and 2022. This is more than the combined total of all other winners. England won the women's EURO for the first time in their history in 2022, breaking a number of records along the way.
In July 2022, Tencent's Honor of Kings was the highest grossing game app in China, earning more than 168 million U.S. dollars of revenue. Tencent and NetEase were the well-known game developers and distributors in China, each owned a couple of apps among the top 20 grossing mobile games during the surveyed month.
The Nikkei Stock Average (Nikkei 225) closed at 27,801.64 points in July 2022. In November 2020, the index had reached 26,000 points for the first time since 1991 after falling to 18,917.01 points in March 2020 due to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In June 2022, there were over 678 thousand ATM withdrawal transactions and nearly 121 million point-of sale transactions made via credit card in India.The credit card transactions had decreased significantly in the months of March to May 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of July 2022, 52 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 36 percent who thought it was the right decision. During this time period, the share of people who regret Brexit has been slightly higher than those who support it, except for some polls in Spring 2021, which showed higher levels of support for Brexit. The share of people who don’t know whether Brexit was the right or wrong decision has generally been consistent and usually ranged between 11 and 14 percent.
Brexit boost wanes in late 2021
The surge in support for Brexit that occurred in Spring 2021 may have been related to the United Kingdom’s fast rollout of vaccinations for COVID-19. Compared to other major European countries, the UK had managed to vaccinate a far higher share of its population by Spring 2021, although other countries did catch up in the summer. The relatively fast procurement process of the UK was contrasted with a more cautious bureaucratic EU, supporting some of the key sentiments that drove the Brexit vote. Since that point, the fall in support in support of Brexit mirrors the government’s sinking approval ratings, especially since the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heavily associated with Brexit and the Leave vote.
Leave victory in 2016 defied the polls
In the actual referendum, which took place on June 23, 2016, Leave won 51.9 percent of the votes and Remain 48.1 percent, after several polls in the run-up to the referendum put Remain slightly ahead. Remain was anticipated to win until early results from North East England showed that Leave had performed far better than expected, with this pattern replicated throughout the country. This event was repeated somewhat in the U.S. election of that year which saw Donald Trump win several key swing states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, despite predictions that these states would vote for Hilary Clinton.
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