#FridayChartQuiz
🎈📊 Multiple choice #FridayChartQuiz

1️⃣ Country/region: US, UK, Japan, Eur ex UK, EM Asia, EM Latam, EM EMEA

2️⃣ Sectors: Comm servs, Cons disc, Cons staples, Energy, Fins, Health, Industrials, IT, Materials, Real estate, Utilities

Chart shows top-20

🏅 Bonus if can guess US/non-US split in top 20
October 4, 2024 at 8:20 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz is back!

This is the number of what in the USA? It’s fallen a third since 2023

Clue: President Trump cares about it
August 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🎈📊 Fun #FridayChartQuiz: what used to be unpopular among public companies, became very popular, but has fallen out favour again?

Clue: the 2020 dip might help. Or it could send you off in a totally random direction 😁
October 25, 2024 at 9:06 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz This is something President Trump cares about. What is it?
January 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz: Who am I? I was briefly the world's most valuable public company. I've had some ups and downs, some of my own doing

✍ Intentionally wrong answers with a good explanation for why it fits the chart beat the right answer any day
May 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz: this is the number of acres harvested/year of which two crops, in the US?
June 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz What has comfortably outperformed S&P 500 since start of 2000 in total return terms?

Clue: it's not something niche that would be unfair to ask. And yes I know that start point matters and this is a particularly unkind start point for the S&P 500

Wrong answers encouraged!
February 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz: what is this stock market chart that? It’s at an all-time high in $ but falling when scaled. Clue: it attracts a lot of attention

The scaling is relative to something sensible

Data to March 2025
July 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
#FridayChartQuiz what has gone up lots for Chinese equities over the past 20yrs but down lots for the US?

No Christmas frivolities here, just serious investment bantz

Series rebased to 100 on 30 Nov 2004
December 20, 2024 at 8:45 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz: What are these blue and green stock market indices?

One has outperformed the other by nearly 20% since mid-2024
April 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🎵 #FridayChartQuiz x The Economist: what characteristic of hit songs has shot up to a new record high?

Wrong answers encouraged!

Thanks to @alexselbyb.bsky.social at The Economist for the chart

You should follow Alex for cool charts - no cheating by looking at his posts for the answer tho!
August 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz: what do these 9 US states have in common?

As always, wrong answers encouraged!
August 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz this shows US annual revenues of 4 competing popular products in $ millions. What are they?
November 22, 2024 at 9:07 AM
#FridayChartQuiz: this shows the debt/GDP ratio of two countries. Historically very different, recently more similar - but not always. Can you guess either?
June 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz: this is the percentage of tech IPOs with what characteristic?
November 29, 2024 at 8:26 AM
📊#FridayChartQuiz: what are these percentages ?

I don’t think it’s Greggs penetration. But their sausage rolls are pretty good
May 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
ANSWER to #FridayChartQuiz: top perf sector this year has been…US utilities!

Narrative that Mag-7 are sole driver of stock market returns is past its use-by date

Still a huge part of the index, but perf coming from wider range of sources

More in this month’s Schroders Equity Lens - out soon!
October 6, 2024 at 7:05 PM
#FridayChartQuiz Whose share of ownership of the US stock market hit a record in 2024?

This means they have been buying US stocks at a faster rate than other categories of owner

Elon PA?
January 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#FridayChartQuiz: What did over 840,000 apply to do in 2025, an unbelievable ramp up in recent years

The green bar shows how many (excuse the grammar in the pic) were successful. That hasn’t changed much over time
May 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz Which major European city has had an insane amount of rain in March? 920% of its average March rainfall ☔

Many others had one of their driest Marches ever. London shown for comparison purposes 🌞

* This is a tariff-free zone today. Although reciprocating kindness encouraged *
April 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
⚽️ #FridayChartQuiz: football edition to mark the start of the new season

Each phrase sounds like a British football team. Name them

Feel free to confirm each others guesses to save waiting for me to respond

Source: a mate via WhatsApp 🤣 probably a pub quiz originally?
August 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz What are these percentages of, that have got so much higher since the 1980s?

Clues: It's a good thing. And the lines are variants of each other
March 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#FridayChartQuiz which OECD country has the highest corporate tax rate?

It’s also one of the few that have increased it in recent years - the UK being the biggest recent hiker

I’ve also highlighted the US as Trump has said he wants to cut theirs to 15%. Not long ago the US had the highest rate
November 8, 2024 at 9:04 AM
📊 #FridayChartQuiz: what are Europe and the UK so far behind the US on? And falling further back

Clue: it gets people worked up. It’s also important for listed companies

(It’s not the level of the stock market, number of listed companies, gdp or productivity growth - before you guess any of those)
May 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Bit early for a @duncanlamont2.bsky.social style #FridayChartQuiz but guess the banks - percentage change since November 4 last year>>
March 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM