The exchange rate data is taken from Thomson Reuters and represents the real-time exchange rates between different currencies at 16:00 Taiwan time on the same day in the local or global foreign exchange markets; monthly and annual data are sourced from the IFS and are for domestic research reference only.

The net income of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 1.14 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.

The multinational mass media company Thomson Reuters generated 2.8 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from its legal professionals segment in 2022. The corporates segment followed with 1.54 billion U.S. dollars in 2022.

Context

Data and methodology for the Big Mac index https://www.economist.com/news/2018/07/11/the-big-mac-index.

Updated yearly, with data from 1986 to 2019.

Content

• big-mac-raw-index.csv contains values for the “raw” index
• big-mac-adjusted-index.csv contains values for the “adjusted” index
• big-mac-full-index.csv contains both

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Im Jahr 2024 erwirtschaftete Thomson Reuters Gesamtumsätze in Höhe von rund 7,26 Milliarden US-Dollar. Im Vorjahr hatten die Umsätze des multinationalen Medien- und Finanzkonzerns mit Sitz in New York City und Toronto noch bei knapp 6,8 Milliarden US-Dollar gelegen.Der Gewinn von ThomsonReuters sank von etwa 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar auf rund 2,1 Milliarden US-Dollar im Jahr 2024.

The operating profit of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 2.33 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 1.13 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.

The liabilities of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 7.62 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total decrease by approximately 0.12 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this decrease did not happen continuously.

The net cash of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 1.6 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, furthermore, that this increase happened continuously.

This data package includes the underlying data to replicate the charts and calculations presented in Understanding Korea’s long-run real exchange rate behavior, PIIE Working Paper 24-17.

If you use the data, please cite as:

Irwin, Douglas, and Maurice Obstfeld. 2024. Understanding Korea’s long-run real exchange rate behavior. PIIE Working Paper 24-17. Washington: Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Monthly gold prices (USD) in London from Bundesbank.

General: 1 ounce of fine gold = 31.1034768g. Method of calculation:

• Since 1 April 1968, calculated from the daily morning fixing;
• From January 1950 to 21 March 1954, calculated using the Bank of England's gold purchasing price (1 ounce of fine = pound 12.40) in connection with the average exchange rate for the pound in New York (up to the end of 1952; source: Federal Reserve Bulletin) and, from January 1953, midpoint exchange rates for the US dollar in London (source: Financial Times (FT)).
• From 22 March 1954 to December 1959, calculated using the fixing price for gold bars of approx. 12 1/2 kg and 995/1000 fineness and over (so-called standard bars) according to data from Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt am Main, in connection with the average midpoint exchange rates for the US dollar in London (source: FT).
• From January 1960 to 14 March 1968, average fixing price for standard bars as specified in the Bank of England's Quarterly Bulletin.
• On 15 March 1968, fixing price suspended. Gold market split into an official (reserved for central banks) and a free market as a result of the Washington Communique of 17 March 1968. Gold trading suspended from 18 to 29 March 1968.
• Sources for daily prices: April 1968 - March 1974: FT; April 1974 - December 1980: Samuel Montagu & Co. Ltd.; January 1981 - December 2005: FT; January 2006 - present: Reuters.
• Comment on 1968-03: Average from 1 to 14 March 1968.

License: PDDL (Source indicates no restrictions on data).

The total assets of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 18.68 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 1.38 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.

1. The series of files named as ‘*_polarity.csv’ in folder ‘polarity’ includes the trading polarities of stocks listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange from May 4 to July 31 2015. The eight numbers in the filenames specify the dates. The columns of these dataframes indicate the stock names, while the indices of dataframes indicate the time. The granularity of trading polarity is 1 minute for every stock. These trading polarities are calculated from the serial numbers for buyers and sellers in transactions data. The original transactions data is not publicly available due to the company’s license requirement.2. The files in the 'log_ret' folder cover the log returns of 1646 stocks listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange from May 4 to July 31 2015. These data are calculated from the intraday price trends data provided by Thomson Reuters’ Tick History. The original price trends data is not publicly available due to the company’s license requirement.3. The file named as "stock_market_value.csv" gives the capitalization of stocks in June 31 2015, which is downloaded from Wind Information and we have converted the unit of measure from RMB into a dollar. Due to license requirements of the data companies, all of the above files have converted the names of stocks into integers in a consistent way. 4. Please cite the following paper:Shan Lu, Jichang Zhao and Huiwen Wang. Trading Imbalance in Chinese Stock Market—A High-Frequency View. Entropy, 2020, 22(8), 897.

The total equity of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 11.06 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.

The revenue of Thomson Reuters with headquarters in Canada amounted to 6.79 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 0.88 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, furthermore, that this increase happened continuously.

Im Jahr 2024 erzielte Thomson Reuters einen Gewinn in Höhe von mehr als 2,11 Milliarden US-Dollar - ein leichter Rückgang gegenüber dem Vorjahr.Der Umsatz des multinationalen Medien- und Finanzkonzerns mit Sitz in New York City und Toronto konnte im selben Zeitraum auf rund 7,26 Milliarden US-Dollar gesteigert werden.

Im Jahr 2024 erwirtschaftete Thomson Reuters rund 5,3 Milliarden US-Dollar und damit knapp drei Viertel seines Umsatzes in den USA. Europa, der Nahe Osten und Afrika bildeten mit rund 1,16 Milliarden US-Dollar den zweitwichtigsten Markt des multinationalen Medien- und Finanzkonzerns mit Sitz in New York City und Toronto.Der Gesamtumsatz von ThomsonReuters betrug 2024 rund 7,26 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Der vermögendste Unternehmer weltweit aus dem Bereich Medien und Unterhaltung ist laut des aktuellen Forbes Rankings Rupert Murdoch und seine Familie mit einem Vermögen von ** Milliarden US-Dollar. Sherry Brydson, eine von den sechs Erben der Thomson Familie (Thomson Reuters), folgt als Einzelperson mit einem Vermögen von **** Milliarden auf Platz zwei. Die anderen fünf Erben zählen mit ihrem Vermögen ebenfalls zu den 25 reichsten Medienunternehmern. Der CEO der Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Stefan Holtzbrinck, landete mit einem Vermögen von *** Milliarden US-Dollar auf Platz 20 der reichsten Medienunternehmer weltweit.