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🇳🇬 Nigerian Naira per US Dollar.

One year ago: 464

Now: 1,452

JUST IN: Bloomberg reports that Turkey had nearly $10 billion in 'mystery outflows' in March, the month of the local elections.

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Interest payments as share of government revenue, 2024.

🇵🇰 Pakistan: 57%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 32%
🇮🇳 India: 28%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 15%

(Fitch Ratings)

🇹🇷 Turkish Lira per US Dollar

1st January, 2020: 5.9

1st January, 2021: 7.4

1st January, 2022: 13.1

1st January, 2023: 18.6

Now: 32.2

BREAKING: Bloomberg reports that China will start selling one trillion yuan ($138 billion) in long-term bonds this Friday

JUST IN: Sirens sound in northern Israel

BREAKING: Emirates airline reports a record full-year profit of $4.6 billion

BREAKING: UN Relief and Works Agency says that nearly 360,000 people have fled Rafah over the past week

JUST IN: 🇹🇷 Turkey reports trade deficit of $4.54 billion in March, the highest since last July.

JUST IN: British police arrested and charged three men with assisting Hong Kong's intelligence service

JUST IN: 🇮🇩 Indonesia's consumer confidence rises to 11-month high

JUST IN: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says his country has not seen a 'clear, credible plan to protect civilians' in Rafah

Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services consumed 90 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2022, as much as the country of Colombia.

(Source: JPMorgan Chase)

BREAKING: The UK's Telegraph reports that the Labour Party has called for the UK to 'pause selling arms to Israel for the first time amid concerns over a military offensive in Rafah'

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MEDICINE: First person to receive a genetically-modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the procedure

UNITED STATES: 58% of Americans say that they disapprove of President Biden's handling of the economy, according to a Financial Times poll.

BREAKING: Putin nominates Belousov to be Russia's new defence minister