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🚨 As China’s share of U.S. Treasury holdings declined in 2025, the U.K.’s role quietly grew—reshaping who finances America’s debt.

Deep dive : lnkd.in/eTDXEqVR

Substack: lnkd.in/e6ZQg36C

#econsky #datavisuals #data
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🚨 As China’s share of U.S. Treasury holdings declined in 2025, the U.K.’s role quietly grew—reshaping who finances America’s debt.

Deep dive : lnkd.in/eTDXEqVR

Substack: lnkd.in/e6ZQg36C

#econsky #datavisuals #data
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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🚨 Foreign investors held $9.2 trillion in U.S. Treasuries as of October 2025

While total foreign holdings of U.S. securities rose 7% from January to October, the gains were unevenly distributed across countries.

Deep dive : lnkd.in/eTDXEqVR
Substack: lnkd.in/e6ZQg36C

#econsky #data #datavisuals
Bar chart showing top foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities in October 2025, led by Japan ($1.2T), the U.K. ($878B), and China ($689B).
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🚨 U.S. inflation cooled sharply in November, but the data come with a major caveat.

A quick read: lnkd.in/eqvzxJpW

#datavisuals #econsky #datawrapper #linechart #economicdata #inflation #datacaveat #inflationdata #CPI
Line chart compares headline and core U.S. inflation since 2020, highlighting missing October data and a provisional November reading.
December 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🚨 In an era of fluctuating interest costs and persistent fiscal deficits, the U.S. trajectory stands out: it is not only high but climbing faster than most of its G7 peers.

deep dive: bit.ly/4p3oWVQ

Substack: bit.ly/4qe9pn0

#econsky #data #G7 #debt #globaldebt #US #datavisuals #datawrapper
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🚨 Major companies are ramping up their AI efforts through NVIDIA, deepening global dependence on its technology.

🔎 UPDATED list of Nvidia's key AI investments since 2023: lnkd.in/eCQ3Q3MV

#econsky #artificialintelligence #AI #datavisuals #AIpartnerships #nvidia
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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🚨 The Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75 to 4%

The Fed said inflation has moved up since earlier in the year and remains somewhat elevated.

Updated chart: lnkd.in/eZbWgM5i

#econsky #datavisuals #inflation #datawrapper
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Nvidia Becomes First Company Worth $5 Trillion as it solidifies its AI dominance

#econsky #datawrapper

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Line chart showing Nvidia’s stock price from January 2023 to October 2025, highlighting major AI partnerships and product announcements. The stock steadily rises as Nvidia announces AI tools with Adobe and Oracle in March 2023, an AI supercomputer launch in May 2023, and partnerships with Tata Group, Foxconn, and Wipro later that year. The price continues climbing into 2024 and 2025, with notable jumps following cloud, healthcare, and networking deals. Major spikes occur after a $5 billion Intel investment in September 2025, a $100 billion OpenAI partnership soon after, and broader integration of Nvidia’s AI robotics tools in China. By October 29, 2025, Nvidia becomes the first company to reach a $5 trillion market valuation.
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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🚨 US government shutdown starts

Since 1976, there have been 21 funding gaps in the U.S. history, the longest lasting 34 full days

More details through an interactive graph and what it means for economic data: lnkd.in/eP4pt3Ac

#econsky #datawrapper #datavisuals #USeconomy #governmentshutdown
October 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🚨 US government shutdown starts

Since 1976, there have been 21 funding gaps in the U.S. history, the longest lasting 34 full days

More details through an interactive graph and what it means for economic data: lnkd.in/eP4pt3Ac

#econsky #datawrapper #datavisuals #USeconomy #governmentshutdown
October 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#Nvidia will invest $100B in #OpenAI but this isn't its first strategic #AI partnership

Here's the list: wp.me/p3AV1k-2K6

#datavisuals #data #econsky #stockprice #google #Alibaba #intel #linecharts
Nvidia's stock price movement since January 2023 until Sept. 29, 2025. The line chart captures all the key announcements around AI, putting the company in a strong position in the AI market.
September 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Interest rates now in effect: 4.08%

The Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate for the first time on Wednesday since December 2024 - the first cut during Trump's second term.

Read: lnkd.in/eZbWgM5i

#inflation #econSky #economy #interestrates #datawrapper #data #visuals #thefed
September 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The Fed cuts interest rate for first time in 2025 and sees two more coming this year

The move lowers the federal funds target range by a quarter percentage point, between 4% and 4.25%.

The cut is also the first during Trump's second term.

More here: lnkd.in/eZbWgM5i

#inflation #econsky #data
Step chart showing the federal funds target range (upper and lower bounds in dashed gray) and effective rate (pink) from Sept 2020 to Sept 2025. Rates stay near zero until early 2022, climb above 5% in 2023, then fall after two cuts: Sept 2024 and Sept 2025. Latest target range is 4.00–4.25% with the effective rate around 4.08%
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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As the world’s largest beef exporter, Brazil accounts for roughly 23% of U.S. beef imports.

But in August, Mexico overtook the U.S. as second-largest destination for Brazilian beef. #econsky

Read more about how tariffs on Brazil could push them even higher
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Line chart comparing beef (red) and egg (yellow) prices from July 2005 to July 2025
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Banana prices peak for the first time in two decades #inflation #EconSky

More: deenazaidi.com/us-tariffs-i...
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Tesla's U.S. market share dropped to a near eight-year low in August due to the competition in EV incentives by leading automakers.

Tesla once made up more than 80% of the U.S. EV market.

More in two charts : lnkd.in/gxch6_iu
September 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Foreign investors pumped $80B into U.S. Treasuries

U.K. overtook China in March this year to become the second-largest foreign holder of U.S. debt.

China, meanwhile, has been cutting back since the pandemic, selling Treasuries to support the yuan.

Link: wp.me/p3AV1k-2Id
September 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Here's how much Texas relies on international trade- explained in 3 graphs (charts made via @datawrapper.de

Link for the interactive version of this map:

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Map showing U.S. trade balance by state in 2025, with 38 states in deficit and 13 in surplus.
August 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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US inflation holds steady at 2.7% for the month of July
August 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🚨Russia’s Crude Oil Exports Stay High — But Flows Shift Sharply Toward Asia

🛢️ After 2022, China and India emerged as top buyers of Russian oil.

More on this in the links below (with interactive graphs)

Shorter version: lnkd.in/e5WXaycj

Deeper analysis: wp.me/p3AV1k-2HH
August 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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US inflation holds steady at 2.7% for the month of July
August 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🚨Russia’s Crude Oil Exports Stay High — But Flows Shift Sharply Toward Asia

🛢️ After 2022, China and India emerged as top buyers of Russian oil.

More on this in the links below (with interactive graphs)

Shorter version: lnkd.in/e5WXaycj

Deeper analysis: wp.me/p3AV1k-2HH
August 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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🚨 Latest-wave of country-specific tariffs have come into force after months of negotiations, pauses, and delays—marking a new era in U.S. trade policy.
More here: lnkd.in/emUnC8fz

#trade #UStariffs #tradewar #datavisuals #datawrapper #import #balanceoftrade
Table showing revised U.S. “reciprocal” tariff rates for select countries as of July 31, 2025. India and Brazil top the list with 50% tariffs, followed by Syria (41%), Myanmar (40%), and Switzerland (36%). Libya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia have tariffs at 30%.
August 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🚨 Beef prices reach an all-time high

In 2025 (from Jan. to May) U.S. imported most frozen beef and veal from Brazil—the highest volume than any other country.

Now, tariffs on Brazil could raise beef prices even further:

More here: lnkd.in/eVQYadNU
July 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Nvidia becomes first $4T company
More here: deenazaidi.com/nvidia-share...
The green line chart shows stock performance for Nvidia from Jan. 3, 2023 to July 9, 2025. A $1000 investment in the company in 2015 would be worth $329,727 by July 9, 2025.
July 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM