*ALPHABET 1Q EPS $1.89, EST. $1.51

*ALPHABET 1Q REVENUE $80.54B, EST. $78.7B

*ALPHABET DECLARED CASH DIVIDEND OF $0.20/SHARE

*META DROPS 11.5% AFTER EARNINGS, WIPING OUT NEARLY $100 BILLION IN MARKET VALUE

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Top 10 Countries

Türkiye🇹🇷
Czechia🇨🇿
Austria🇦🇹
Sweden🇸🇪
Poland🇵🇱
Germany🇩🇪
Switzerland🇨🇭
Luxembourg🇱🇺
Slovakia🇸🇰
Ireland🇮🇪

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🇺🇸 United States government debt:

January 2000: $5.6 trillion

January 2010: $12.3 trillion

April 2024: $34.6 trillion
World of statistics 📊

🇦🇺AUD: 0.36%
🇳🇿NZD: 0.17%
🇨🇦CAD: 0.08%
🇨🇭CHF: -0.07%
🇬🇧GBP: -0.08%
🇯🇵JPY: -0.60%

Government effectiveness - global rank:

1. Singapore 🇸🇬
2. Switzerland 🇨🇭
3. Denmark 🇩🇰
4. Finland 🇫🇮
5. Norway 🇳🇴
6. Andorra 🇦🇩
7. Netherlands 🇳🇱
8. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
9. Sweden 🇸🇪
10. Iceland 🇮🇸
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11. Canada 🇨🇦
15. Australia 🇦🇺
20. South Korea 🇰🇷
21.Japan 🇯🇵
25. USA 🇺🇸
26. Germany 🇩🇪
28. UK 🇬🇧
29. France 🇫🇷
39. Spain 🇪🇸
44. China 🇨🇳
62. Indonesia 🇮🇩
63. Italy 🇮🇹
67. India 🇮🇳
90. South Africa 🇿🇦
97. Turkey 🇹🇷
104. Russia 🇷🇺
114. Mexico 🇲🇽
118. Pakistan 🇵🇰
122. Brazil 🇧🇷
147. Belarus 🇧🇾
156. Iran 🇮🇷
165. Nigeria 🇳🇬
180. North Korea 🇰🇵
192. Venezuela 🇻🇪

According to World Bank

*BANK OF JAPAN INTEREST RATE DECISION: 0.1%; EST. 0.1%; PREV. 0.1%

🇯🇵🇯🇵 $JPY

⚠️ BREAKING:

*JAPAN'S YEN WEAKENS PAST 156 LEVEL VERSUS U.S. DOLLAR TO HIT LOWEST SINCE 1990

🇺🇸 Personal Spending MoM (Mar)
Actual: 0.8%
Expected: 0.6%
Previous: 0.8%

🇺🇸 PCE Price Index MoM (Mar)
Actual: 0.3%
Expected: 0.3%
Previous: 0.3%

🇺🇸 Core PCE Price Index YoY (Mar)
Actual: 2.8%
Expected: 2.6%
Previous: 2.8%

🇺🇸 Michigan Consumer Sentiment Final (Apr)
Actual: 77.2
Expected: 77.8
Previous: 79.4

Currency against US Dollar, past month.

🇮🇳 India: +0%

🇨🇳 China: -0.1%
🇵🇰 Pakistan: -0.2%
🇸🇬 Singapore: -0.9%
🇲🇾 Malaysia: -0.9%
🇹🇭 Thailand: -1.9%
🇰🇷 South Korea: -2%
🇻🇳 Vietnam: -2.2%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: -2.3%
🇵🇭 Philippines: -2.8%
🇯🇵 Japan: -3.2%
🇮🇱 Israel: -3.3%
The spectator index

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Key Events This Week:

1. Amazon $AMZN Earnings - Tuesday
2. AMD $AMD Earnings- Tuesday
3. Super Micro $SMCI Earnings - Tuesday

4. ADP Payrolls - Wednesday
5. ISM Manufacturing PMI - Wednesday
6. JOLTS Job Openings - Wednesday
7. Fed Rate Decision - Wednesday
8. Powell Press Conference - Wednesday

9. Initial Jobless Claims - Thursday
10. Apple $AAPL Earnings - Thursday

11. U.S. Jobs Report - Friday
12. ISM Services PMI - Friday

⚠️ JUST IN:

*JAPAN'S YEN JUMPS AGAINST THE DOLLAR ON SUSPECTED INTERVENTION AFTER CRASHING TO 34-YEAR LOW

Silver: 0.01%
Gold: -0.21%
Oil - US Crude: -0.85%

🇯🇵JPY: 1.79%
🇳🇿NZD: 0.42%
🇦🇺AUD: 0.36%
🇬🇧GBP: 0.28%
🇪🇺EUR: 0.26%
🇨🇦CAD: 0.09%

20 most powerful country leaders in the world:

1. Xi Jinping 🇨🇳
2. Joe Biden 🇺🇸
3. Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺
4. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud 🇸🇦
5. Narendra Modi 🇮🇳
6. Emmanuel Macron 🇫🇷
7. Ali Hoseini-Khameinei 🇮🇷
8. Benjamin Netanyahu 🇮🇱
9. Kim Jong Un 🇰🇵
10. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan 🇦🇪
11. Fumio Kishida 🇯🇵
12. Olaf Scholz 🇩🇪
13. Rishi Sunak 🇬🇧
14. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi 🇪🇬
15. Recep Tayyip Erdogan 🇹🇷
16. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 🇧🇷
17. Yoon Suk Yeol 🇰🇷
18. Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦
19. Bashar al-Assad 🇸🇾
20. Anthony Albanese 🇦🇺

According to three-pronged criteria to measure the power of each leader; the criteria is premised on the country's military strength and the leader's role in maintaining and enhancing it, the economic policies implemented by the leader, and the global influence of the leader in the geopolitical arena. Via Yahoo Finance, November 2023.

🇪🇺Europe real estate price change, Q4 2023 vs Q4 2022

🇵🇹Portugal 11.1%
🇬🇷Greece 10.7%
🇨🇾Cyprus 7.6%
🇳🇱Netherlands 6.4%
🇪🇸Spain 4.2%
🇨🇭Switzerland 2.6%
🇵🇱Poland 2.2%
🇮🇹Italy 1.7%
🇱🇹Lithuania 1.7%
🇨🇿Czech Rep -3.5%
🇩🇪Germany -6.8%
🇱🇻Latvia -7.1%
🇱🇺Luxembourg -8.6%
🇸🇰Slovakia -8.6%
Global property Guide

🇯🇵JPY: 1.53%
🇳🇿NZD: 0.55%
🇦🇺AUD: 0.46%
🇬🇧GBP: 0.29%
🇪🇺EUR: 0.21%
🇨🇦CAD: 0.11%