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Clusterstock
Oct 20
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The Economist's Big Mac Index and the new iPod Nano Index from CommSec are both cute ways of getting attention for the organizations that produce them. But do they really measure anything economically significant?
The idea is that the indexes...
The Economist
Aug 20
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How many minutes to earn the price of a Big Mac?
THE size of your pay packet may be important, but so is its purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage...
FX Street
Aug 17
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The financial magazine The Economist has made the so-called ‘Big Mac Index’ famous. The Big Mac Index uses the price of a Big Mac to illustrate the so-called Law of One Price, by comparing the price of a Big Mac in different countries and...
FX Street
Aug 14
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The financial magazine The Economist has made the so-called ‘Big Mac Index’ famous. The Big Mac Index uses the price of a Big Mac to illustrate the so-called Law of One Price, by comparing the price of a Big Mac in different countries and...
The Mess That Greenspan Made
Jul 21
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No, it's not scientific, but it sure is fun to look at. The latest Big Mac Index from The Economist has a few surprises as shown below, any valuation of +/- 40 percent or more is circled.
Naturally, the Purchasing Power Parity variable is key but,...
THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST
Jul 17
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From the Economist:
WHICH countries has the foreign-exchange market blessed with a cheap exchange rate, and which has it burdened with an expensive one? The Economist's Big Mac index, a lighthearted guide to valuing currencies, provides some...
Valuecruncher
Jun 30
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In the spirit of The Economist’s “Big Mac Index“. Here at Valuecruncher we decided to repeat an exercise we did earlier in the year - to assess the overall current valuation of the New Zealand stock exchange (NZSX) - the market as a...
THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST
May 14
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The Economist founded the Big Mac Index more than a decade ago as a very interesting way to gauge currency valuations. From The Economist:
Burgernomics is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the notion that a dollar should buy...
Contrarian Profits
Sep 2
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Andrew Gordon in Investor's Daily Edge says The Economist's Big Mac Index shows that the most overvalued currencies are currently all European. And the world's most undervalued currencies are mostly Asian. It also signals that the dollar is...
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