Talking gobblers
Has Elon Musk picked up a turkey in Twitter?
– Musk paid $54.2 per share. The share price reached $41.57 on its first day of trading in 2013. It slumped to $14.62 in April 2016 and peaked at $77.06 in February 2021. In the first quarter of 2022, it claimed 229 million active daily users, a rise of 15.9% year on year. There were 39.6 million users in the US.
– In Q1 2022 the company raised $1.2 billion in revenue: $1.11 billion from advertising and £94 million from subscriptions. However, in the same quarter the company ran up $1.33 billion in costs.
Dirty Cop
How are Cop conferences doing at cutting their own carbon emissions? Official estimates of past conferences:
CO2 equivalent in tonnes
Cop 15, Copenhagen 2009 26,276
Cop 17, Durban 2011 25,048
Cop 18, Doha 2012 11,538
Cop 21, Paris 2015 43,000
Cop 25, Madrid 2019 51,101
Cop 26, Glasgow 2021 102,500
Source: UN/Arup
The cost of borrowing
Which G20 countries pay the most, and least, to borrow money ?
Japan 0.25%
Germany 2.13%
China 2.65%
France 2.66%
Canada 3.25%
UK 3.51%
Australia 3.82%
US 4.05%
Italy 4.24%
India 7.45%
Indonesia 7.54%
Mexico 9.75%
Russia 9.85%
South Africa 10.85%
Turkey 10.99%
Source: tradingeconomics.com
Another billion
The UN estimates that the global population will reach 8 billion on 15 November. When did it surpass previous milestones?
10 million c. 7000 bc
100 million c. 1000 bc
1 billion First decade of 19th century
2 billion 1928
3 billion 1960
4 billion 1975
5 billion 1987
6 billion 1999
7 billion 2011
Source: ourworldindata.com
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