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The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov · No. 26 in the world

Markets, money and crypto

Stocks, crypto, banks and currencies.

Share of the world’s attention
0.7%
Change
–
12 weeks

A third what people search for on Google, a third what they read on Wikipedia, a third what the news covers: attention, not market size. Games, for one, are played far more than they’re searched for or read about. How it’s measured

Not the leading theme in any country this week

Where it splits peopleSpend and enjoy Save and hold back

Markets, money and crypto · this week

Current Zeitgeist

Breakdown

What its reading is made of this week, part by part

59.4%Banks & finance

Total100.0%

Select a part to open it or see what people read in it

Most read in Banks & finance

  1. Sovereign wealth fund

    No. 1 · 44.3k views
  2. 2

    J. P. Morgan

    No. 2 · 13.6k viewsPach Brothers, Public domain
  3. Rhodes Scholarship

    No. 3 · 11k views
  4. 4

    John D. Rockefeller Jr.

    No. 4 · 10.4k viewsUnderwood & Underwood, Public domain
  5. 5

    Anthony Scaramucci

    No. 5 · 8.6k viewsJdarsie11, CC BY-SA 4.0

Share of Wikipedia reading in the world, 7 – 13 Nov · 919.5k page views · Open in the explorer

Inside Industry & economy

Every area’s share of its reading this week; this theme’s in colour

61.4%Other Industry & economy
  1. Everything else3.3%Manufacturing & materials 0.9% · Food & farming business 0.9% · Energy & utilities 0.7% · Advertising & marketing 0.4% · The economy 0.2% · Professional services 0.2%

Total100.0%

In colour: counted in this theme

Share of Wikipedia reading in the world, 7 – 13 Nov · 27.8m page views · Open in the explorer

Companies people read about

The most-read companies in it on Wikipedia this week

  1. Berkshire Hathaway
  2. The Vanguard Group
  3. Life Insurance Corporation
  4. Channel Tunnel
  5. JPMorgan Chase
  6. State Bank of India

Startups people read about

Backed by Y Combinator, a16z, Sequoia and other well-known investors · by Wikipedia views in this theme this week

  1. Stripe, Inc.founded 2010 · Backed by Y Combinator, Sequoia +13.5k
  2. Coinbasefounded 2012 · Backed by Y Combinator, a16z +13.5k
  3. Nubankfounded 2013 · Backed by Founders Fund2.6k
  4. Block, Inc.founded 2009 · Backed by Sequoia2.4k
The week of 7 Nov to 13 Nov · Backers according to Wikidata

Where it’s biggest

Its share of each country’s attention this week

0 to 1% or moreNo data

Reading and news · 231.7m · Indicative

New and growing

Phrases new or growing in this week’s English-language headlines, against the 8 weeks before

  1. Bitcoin

    New

    18 headlines · 14 outlets

    Harga Kripto 7 November 2026: Bitcoin Melemah Tipis, XRP Turun 3,28%liputan6.com

  2. AI stocks

    New

    4 headlines · 3 outlets

    AI Stocks Are Falling; Bitcoin Is Holding Ground. Here's What Could Come Next.fool.com

  3. Binance

    Rising

    6 headlines · 6 outlets

    North Korea's Binance hack raises global financial security concernsvoanews.com

  4. Q3

    Rising

    5 headlines · 5 outlets

    Berkshire Hathaway's $9.6 Billion Q3 Buyback Is Its Biggest Ever247wallst.com

Markets, money and crypto · The week of 30 Oct to 5 Nov

On social media

Social →

The TikTok videos, Instagram posts and YouTube videos about this theme the most-liked Bluesky posts shared this week, and the topics trending on Bluesky.

Shared from YouTube

  1. Could This Actually End Citizens United?

    Robert Reich

    Shared in 2 posts · 12,541 likes and reposts

  2. Investigating Jared Kushner's Empire of Fraud & Corruption

    Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan

    Shared in 2 posts · 8,106 likes and reposts

Each plays here in its platform’s own player, loaded only when you press play; the platform’s terms apply. Counts: Bluesky’s public search (the likes and reposts of the posts that shared each one)

Markets, money and crypto

Discussion

Markets, money and crypto · this week

Emotions

How its news sounds

Its tone against its usual, and each feeling against the average news

As usual

Tone +0.30 · usual +0.17

Calmer than the average news, no feeling stands out

  • Anxiety0.9×
  • Fear0.5×
  • Anger0.2×
  • Sadness1.0×

Each bar compares a feeling with the average news here; the tick marks the average.

News · 10.9k · Solid
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