Market Stories in Charts | Week of 8th Jan 2024

Data discoveries of the week, presented in charts. We look at data on India’s impressive mutual fund growth, global economic challenges in 2024, Druckenmiller recession indicator, average and median wealth across the world  and more. 

 

 

  1.  In 2023, India’s FinTech sector saw a significant funding decline of 63-73%, receiving $2 billion, yet still ranked third globally in FinTech startup funding. ?

 

2.  The mutual fund sector saw impressive growth in 2024.?

 

3. Mutual Fund folios reached an all-time high of 16,48,90,272 in December 2023.

 

4. From 2018 to 2022, India led the world in arms imports, accounting for 11% of the global share.

 

5. Don’t just save, invest.

 

 

6. What are the risks facing the global economy in 2024?

 

7. What are the global economic challenges in 2024?

 

8.  Commodity returns in 2023.

 

9. The following chart shows that emerging markets are performing the worst in 2 decades.??

 

10. If one had bought a Japanese stock at its peak in 1989, returns would have been almost flat after 34 years!

 

 

11.  In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated around the world, an increase of 2.3% from 2021.

 

12. The Druckenmiller recession indicator says it is coming.

 

13. Historically, a US recession tends to follow a year after the curve inverts, though the variance is large and there are occasional false positives.

 

14. Average and median wealth across the world.

 

 

15. The US has the largest debt to GDP ratio among major economies.

 

16. About 184 million people – 2.3% of the world’s population – live outside of their country of nationality.??

 

17. Combined, the 20 top-earning women made an estimated $226 million in 2023. That is a 13% drop from 2022’s $258 million.?

 

18. US consumer inflation expectations fall to lowest since January 2021.

 

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