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Datawatch: China activity indicators
Growth in investment in China’s fixed assets dropped to 10.9 per cent year on year in August, lagging behind analysts’expectations.Read more
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Datawatch: Greek election polling
The Greek election on Sunday will be the country’s third ballot this year. The most recent polling shows a tightening race between the leftist Syriza and the centre-right New Democratic, both holding...
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Datawatch: car companies market share
Last year Volkswagen was the second-largest carmaker globally, accounting for almost 12 per cent of sales by volume, lagging only 0.1 per cent behind the largest, Toyota.Read more
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Datawatch: papal approval ratings
More than two-thirds of the US public hold positive views of Pope Francis. His rating exceeds that of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, by 14 percentage points. Neither, however, has approached the...
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Datawatch: foreign direct investment inflows
China surpassed the US to become the top recipient of foreign direct investment in 2014. The inflow to the US fell by 60 per cent, primarily because of the Verizon pullout by Vodafone. Five of the top...
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Datawatch: Nobel Prize value
The cash value of a full Nobel Prize has been set at SKr8m, or about $970,000, since 2012. If past nominal values are adjusted for inflation this sum is broadly equivalent to the value in 1901, when...
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Datawatch: oil price and the Canadian dollar
In September the Canadian dollar fell bellow 75 US cents, its lowest level since 2004. Last week the currency rose as oil prices surged more than 8 per cent on the worsening outlook for global...
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Datawatch: visa restrictions
UK and German passport holders have visa-free access to 173 countries and rank in first place for global travel freedom. Turkey is the only OECD country outside the top 30, with visa-free travel for...
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Datawatch: US ecommerce sales
Americans spent more than $1bn shopping from their desktops on Thanksgiving Day in 2014. But that was only half of what they spent the following Monday, dubbed ‘Cyber Monday’ for its exclusive online...
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