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As expected, OPEC+ agreed to extend its oil supply cuts, delegates said, as the group continues its efforts to avert a global surplus and shore up prices.
The so-called “voluntary” cuts from key members including Saudi Arabia and Russia, which total roughly 2 million barrels a day and were set to expire at the end of June, will continue until the end of 2024, delegates said, asking not to be named because the talks were private. Source: Bloomberg
At 8.17 U.S. dollars, Switzerland has the most expensive Big Macs in the world, according to the January 2024 Big Mac index.
Concurrently the cost of a Big Mac was 5.69 dollars in the U.S., and 5.87 U.S. dollars in the Euro area. What is the Big Mac index? The Big Mac index, published by The Economist, is a novel way of measuring whether the market exchange rates for different countries’ currencies are overvalued or undervalued. It does this by measuring each currency against a common standard – the Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald’s restaurants all over the world. Twice a year the Economist converts the average national price of a Big Mac into U.S. dollars using the exchange rate at that point in time. As a Big Mac is a completely standardized product across the world, the argument goes that it should have the same relative cost in every country. Differences in the cost of a Big Mac expressed as U.S. dollars therefore reflect differences in the purchasing power of each currency. Source: Tavi Costa, Crescat Capital, Statista, The Economist
The current earnings season has largely been a rough one for cloud software providers.
Source: Win Smart, Factset
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