Category: Statistics
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Economic Emergency Braking in the USA and Surprising Recovery in Germany
At the beginning of January, the US economy was still the world’s economic engine, while Germany – after negative growth in the fourth quarter – was heading for a very weak first quarter. “However,” says Carsten Mumm, Chief Economist at Privatbank DONNER & REUSCHEL, “the current flash estimates of the Markit purchasing managers’ indices paint…
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RATING.REPAIR in the Holiday Month of August
Who is actually interested in RATING©REPAIR? Only subscribers are known by name. All others remain anonymous. Nevertheless, we can see how many views RATING©REPAIR has received per country by the day, week, month, and year. This is technically possible today. The above illustration refers to the last 30 days. If a visitors’ location cannot be…
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Beware of Shaky References
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Survey: Banks Expect Significantly Worse Credit Ratings For Corporate Loan Customers
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Statistical Significance of the A- Issuer Rating for Greensill Bank
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From Money Substitute to Lottery Substitute
The average Bitcoin holding time for investors is estimated 3.1 years. However, as a new Handelskontor infographic shows, there has recently been a change: More and more traders are appearing, while the relative proportion of long-term investors is falling. According to research done by Handelskontor, at the beginning of March there were 5.41 million Bitcoin…
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Israel and UAE lead the field
Without a vaccination and without a face mask, the risks remain incalculable. Israel is leading the race to reach the 60-70 percent threshold needed to suppress the spread of Covid-19 among the general population. Second-placed UAE’s 60.8 doses per 100 inhabitants and the UK’s 30.13 doses per 100 of its citizens are ahead of the…
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Rating Evidence on the Effectiveness of Vaccines
‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for virus, and ‘D’ for disease. There is a lot of data circulating about the effectiveness of vaccines against the coronavirus. Even experts can skid when they have to translate the numbers from scientific studies into concrete, understandable information. Explaining the effectiveness numbers and their meaning is not easy. The…