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📊Despite strongly fluctuating exchange rates and the ongoing discussion about the sustainability of the large blockchains behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, 2021 was a successful year for crypto investors. U.S.-based crypto holders alone were able to generate $47 billion from trading Bitcoin and Co. last year.

📈 As our chart shows, the world's largest economies are also among those whose residents have benefited the most from the crypto boom.

🏆Most valuable luxury brands worldwide by brand value in 2021 (in billion US dollars).

🥇With a valuation of $75.7 billion, LVMH - the parent company of Louis Vuitton owned by Bernard Arnault - ranks first.

🥈It is followed by Chanel with a brand value of roughly $47 billion.

🥉Next up on the list is Hermès, whose value is estimated at $46.4 billion.

Gucci is fourth in the list with value of $33.8 billion.

It is followed by watch-maker Rolex with a value of $ 8.1 billion.

Carter is next in the list with $7.3 billion.
Christian Dior took the 7th position with value of $ 5.4 billion.

Saint Laurent has the value of $5.2 billion.
Prada is ninth in the list with $4 billion.

COVID-19: An unprecedented crisis

👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️Health systems around the world have been overwhelmed by the number of coronavirus cases, and even the richest and most prepared countries have struggled. In the most vulnerable countries, millions of people have not had access to critical life-saving supplies, such as test kits, face masks, and respirators. However, there is now a light at the end of the tunnel: Several vaccines have been approved for use, and over seven billion vaccine doses had already been administered worldwide as of November 4, 2021.

🇦🇲Armenia’s economic activity in the first seven months of 2021 increased by 5.2% compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Statistical Committee (NSC).

✅During the same period Armenia’s foreign trade turnover in January-July 2021 amounted to $4,306.4 billion, which is 15.1% higher than in the same period in 2020, according to the numbers, released today by the NSC.

📈Armenian exports in January-July 2021 when compared to January-July 2020 increased by 23.2% amounting to $1,641.5 billion. Compared to June 2021 they fell by 9.1%. In dram equivalent, exports amounted to 848.6 billion drams.

📈Imports in the reporting period amounted to $2,664.9 billion, recording an increase of 10.6% when compared to January-July 2020. In July 2021, compared to July 2020, imports increased by 22.4%, and compared to June 2021, by 10.7%. In dram equivalent, imports in January-July 2021 stood at 1,377.4 trillion drams. ($1 – 490.56 drams).

📈This analytics showcases our top picks for the best Armenian based Software companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Software industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

📱💻We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

📊These startups and companies for exceptional performance were classified by these categories: Innovation, Growth, Management & Societal impact.

👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️Public health authorities across the globe have been mobilizing to deliver the biggest ever vaccination program to battle Covid-19.

📈How many people have received the Covid-19 vaccine? We bring you the latest Covid-19 vaccine numbers, including daily Covid-19 vaccine rates per country.

📊This Covid-19 vaccination chart shows a steadily growing Covid-19 vaccination rate globally since January 2021, the first full month of the global Covid-19 vaccination drive.

✅Multiple countries have paused the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigators look into cases of blood clots among vaccinated people.

🔬At least three EU countries — Austria, Estonia and Lithuania — have suspended use of a specific batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution following the death of a vaccinated person. The batch consisted of 1 million doses that were distributed among 17 EU countries, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

🧪AstraZeneca's vaccine has been granted conditional marketing authorization or emergency use in more than 70 countries, including the UK and across the European Union. It has not yet been issued emergency-use authorization in the US.

🏦The State Revenue Committee of Armenia has published the list of 1000 major taxpayers of 2020 and the total amount of taxes paid by them to the state budget.

📈Over 987 billion 637 million drams in taxes were paid by the 1000 major taxpayers in 2020.

🏆The list is topped by Grand To***co which paid 50 billion 671 million 32 thousand drams in taxes in 2020.

The second one is Gazprom Armenia which is followed by Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine.

The next is Geopromining Gold followed by International Masis Tabak.

The top 10 list of the taxpayer companies also include CPS Oil, Flash, Philip Morris Armenia, GTL Armenia and MTS Armenia.

☑The global economy is climbing out from the depths to which it had plummeted during the Great Lockdown in April.

🌍🌎🌏But with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to spread, many countries have slowed reopening and some are reinstating partial lockdowns to protect susceptible populations.

📊Global GDP growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast.
📈In 2021 global growth is projected at 5.4 percent.

🌐The Economist Intelligence Unit's Worldwide Cost of Living survey named Singapore, Osaka and Hong Kong the world's most expensive cities today. Using New York as a benchmark, the research compared the price of 160 items in different cities around the world.

📊The current survey was compiled in November 2019 before the outbreak of COVID-19 and the pandemic has already had a major impact on the global financial system. Cities that rely heavily on income from tourism, including Hong Kong and Singapore, could see their economies contract and their cost of living fall. That is likely to result in very different results in future editions of the ranking.

📈This year's survey was notable as it saw Osaka displacing Paris in the top-three due to a strengthening of the yen which also resulted in Tokyo climbing from 13th place to joint 9th. New York and Los Angeles are also among the world's most expensive cities, coming 4th and 9th respectively. They were influenced by a combination of firm domestic demand and strong local currency.

🔷️With the help of a web browser, users access a huge variety of content including entertainment sites, social media, and online shopping retailers. In recent years, social media sites such as Facebook have become some of the most frequently visited sites in the world, with users determined to keep up to date with the digital presence of their friends, families, and favorite celebrities.

💻Web browsers provide users with an integral digital service, but recent data leaks have alerted users to the pitfalls of putting too much personal data online. A great number of people are becoming aware of and concerned about their online privacy, meaning that web browser developers must prove themselves capable of protecting information if they hope to receive the continued loyalty of their users.

📊The chart shows the browser market share in Armenia and the usage statistics of it as of August 2020.

🔹️TÜV Rheinland stands for safety and quality in virtually all areas of business and life. Founded almost 150 years ago, the company is one of the world’s leading testing service providers with more than 20,000 employees and annual revenues of 2 billion euros.

📊Over a million companies worldwide benefit from a quality management system certified according to ISO 9001, enjoying peak process performance and an international competitive advantage. ISO 9001 certification by TÜV Rheinland ensures that quality orientation is lived by each employee every day.

📈With its process-oriented approach, a quality management system according to ISO 9001 is suitable for all industries and companies – from start-ups to global corporations. We have experience partnering with organizations of all sizes and from all sectors and are able to provide the resources you need for successful ISO 9001 certification.

◾Here are the companies that are ISO 9001 certified by TÜV Rheinland in Armenia & that are distinguished among others by their efficient processes & quality of services.



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💻Despite security concerns and reports of possible links to China, Zoom Video Communications has to be considered one of the biggest beneficiaries of the COVID-19 pandemic. As much of the world has been working from home and relying on technology to stay in touch with colleagues and loved ones amid strict stay-at-home orders, video conferencing apps saw an unprecedented surge in usage, with Zoom one of the most popular options available.

📈As the following chart shows, Zoom saw its revenue skyrocket even further in the past three months, accelerating an already impressive upward trend. In the quarter ended July 31, the second quarter of Zoom's fiscal year 2021, total revenue for the video conferencing company amounted to $664 million, up 355 percent from the same period of last year.

📊For the ongoing quarter, Zoom expects revenue between $685 to $690 million as "organizations are shifting from addressing their immediate business continuity needs to supporting a future of working anywhere, learning anywhere, and connecting anywhere on Zoom's video-first platform."

Apple has hit $2 trillion in market value. Its stock is up nearly 60% this year. Much of the increase has come since late March, highlighting on how much the coronavirus pandemic has boosted the fortunes of big tech companies, as people rely on technology for work, school and entertainment.

🏙Some of the hardest-hit countries from the COVID-19 crisis have been in Europe, and projected unemployment estimates in countries like Spain and Italy are greatly outpacing numbers from 2019.

🏢As businesses remain closed across Europe, Spain leads the continent with a projected unemployment rate of 20.8% for 2020 from the International Monetary Fund – up from 14.1% last year. Italy’s unemployment rate is projected to be 12.7% – up from 10% last year. France’s unemployment is projected to be nearly 2 percent higher than last year, while the U.K. and Germany are only supposed to increase by one percent or less.

📊The good news from the IMF projections are that by 2021, unemployment rates are expected to return close to normal for most European countries. Rates in Spain and France are projected to still be high, but far less so than in 2020. Again, the U.S. stands out, as the 2021 unemployment rate is expected to be only slightly less than 2020.

🏦Being the largest and most attractive for traders worldwide the global foreign exchange market is growing year by year. Large financial institutions and dealers are buying and selling here a huge amount of different currencies (its daily turnover already exceeds $5 trillion). And among them, the most actively traded is the US dollar.

💵Why is it so? All the important commodities in the global market are traded in US$. Most of the international transactions between countries and companies are conducted in dollars. It also remains the dominant reserve currency for central banks and many institutional funds worldwide.

💰Such a high demand makes the US dollar the number one among currencies in the forex market, followed by the Euro, Japanese yen, and Pound sterling.

🔥On the 4th of August 2020, a massive explosion involving 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate rocked the city of Beirut, leaving more than 300,000 people homeless, 5000 injured & around 220 deaths.

☄This recent tragedy is devastating, and unfortunately, it’s not the first time this dangerous chemical compound has caused widespread damage.

📊Today’s graphic outlines the five of the biggest accidental ammonium nitrate explosions over the last 20 years.

💻The sphere of software development in Armenia continues to blossom. Actually, there’s even factual proof to show this.

📈According to the data of the first half of 2020, 27 IT companies were included in the list of 1000 largest taxpayers of Armenia.

📊During the mentioned period, those companies paid about 9.9 billion AMD in taxes, which is 2% of the taxes paid by 1000 large taxpayers.

The largest IT taxpayer in Armenia is Synopsys (53rd place) with taxes paid more than 1.64 billion drams, followed by Digitain (1.04 billion drams) and SoftConstruct Development Office (832 million drams).



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🏢As the global economy starts moving again and people return to work, what do we know about what’s changed in the job market during lockdown?

📈We take a closer look at the overall picture in the labour market, what’s changed in how we work, and how certain industries are faring during this unprecedented time.

📊According to a study conducted in Armenia, the following departments of the hotels are the most affected from reductions: restaurant-bar, room service, front office, - 48.4%, 42.8%, 41.4%, respectively. The complete data can be found in the table below.

☑Back in January of this year, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data revealed that women held more jobs in the U.S. workforce than men, accounting for 50.04% of all positions.

📊Experts believed that the trend was going to continue and gain even more momentum until the coronavirus pandemic arrived and caused economic carnage across the country. Even though there were 109,000 more women employed than men across the U.S. in January, work still needs to be done to eliminate gender discrimination.

📈The evaluation was based on four criteria - direct recommendations in terms of general work topics, direct recommendations relevant for women, indirect recommendations as well as diversity levels among top executives or the board. The 300 companies receiving the highest total scores were awarded as the Best Employers for Women 2020. The survey was conducted during March and April 2020, as Covid-19 spread across the country and the responses reflect employee's feelings before the crisis really took hold.

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✔China has stepped up its capacity to produce face masks by more than ten-fold in a span of one month amid the global coronavirus scare. The manufacturing feat is fanning concerns about a glut when infection cases taper off.

📊Total daily capacity surged to 116 million units at the end of February, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. At this rate, the country is set to churn out almost 10 times the volume it produced in 2019.

📈It’s a no-brainer that this will eventually lead to an overcapacity, the profit margin in this business is extremely thin and demand will drop when the viral outbreak is contained.

✔The Deep Knowledge Group has released a global safety assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic across 200 countries and territories. It classified, analyzed and ranked the economic, social and health stability of the different countries as well as the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats or risks they possess or face.

📊The analysis found that Switzerland is the safest country due to a continuing decline in its infection and mortality rates as well as key factors that put it in a position to maintain a strong post-pandemic economy. Germany is ranked the second-safest country while Israel comes third.

📈Even though the United States and the United Kingdom are experiencing devastating coronavirus outbreaks, they are still 58th and 68th for COVID-19 safety in the analysis. It remarks that the U.S. situation is interesting and that despite its high infection and mortality rates, it still possesses a high degree of healthcare sophistication and strong technologies for monitoring and protection.

🌍Africa is exceptionally vulnerable to the spread of the disease due to a poor healthcare infrastructure and Sudan, Rwanda, Mali and Chad are the study's worst-ranked countries.

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Getting an MBA can be a huge investment of both time and money.

📈MIT Sloan is the world's most expensive top MBA program, which takes into account tuition fees, living expenses, and healthcare costs.

✔The report estimates the total cost of the world's top full-time MBA programs by combining the estimated cost of tuition for two years (for US programs) with additional fees, living expenses, healthcare costs, and money spent on program materials.

📊Narrowly following MIT Sloan in second place is Stanford Graduate School of Business, with a total cost of $237,288. Wharton completes the top three, with a total cost of $229,792.

🇦🇲In its first years of independence, Armenia made uneven progress in establishing systems to meet its national requirements in social services. Education, held in particular esteem in Armenian culture, changed fastest of the social services, while health and welfare services attempted to maintain the basic state-planned structure of the Soviet era. Today Armenia is trying to implement a new vision for its higher education system while pursuing the goals of the European Higher Education Area.

👨‍🎓👩‍🎓Another major reform in Armenian higher education system included the establishment of a quality assurance agency that has been incorporated into the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and that was added to the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) in 2017. The standards and procedures for quality assurance, as well as for institutional and program accreditation, were developed and approved consistent with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance.

👨‍💻👩‍💻There are several new, technology based education centers in Armenia that provide youth with 21st century skills and knowledge to advance in their field, such as the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, Children of Armenia Fund SMART center, among others.

✔How many people use the internet?
Almost 4.57 billion people were active internet users as of April 2020, encompassing 59 percent of the global population.

📊By now, a world without the internet is unimaginable. Connecting billions of people worldwide, the internet is a core pillar of the modern information society. The global online pe*******on rate is 59%, with Northern Europe ranking first with a 95% internet pe*******on rate among the population .

📈The countries with the highest internet pe*******on rate worldwide are the UAE, Denmark, and South Korea. At the opposite end of the spectrum is North Korea with virtually no online usage pe*******on among the general population, ranking last worldwide.

☑Freedom on the Net is Freedom House’s annual survey and analysis of internet and digital media freedom around the world.

➡️When the Internet was born, it held so much promise as a revolutionary medium for good.
It was supposed to usher in an age of unprecedented collaboration by bringing people together through unfettered communications; communications which was supposed to be uninhibited by the constraints of gatekeepers in either the media and government.

✔As the starry-eyed thinking went, online tools would not only unleash creativity, but expand the frontiers of freedom by making it easy to mobilize people in support of democratic institutions.

◾The chilling reality is for over two decades, governments around the globe have been busy using technical, legal, and extralegal strategies to regulate and stifle online content.
However, while “media censorship is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes,” the disturbing trend is that even constitutional democracies are not immune to the virus of internet censorship.

☑The important role in promoting the quality of banking products is attributed to banking staff. And without these qualified cadres, the bank's management can not practically implement any theory or idea formulated and supported by the top leadership of the bank. Of course, the bank's operational staff must be properly motivated and well-motivated in the field of quality.

👨‍💼👩‍💼Team culture also plays an important role. Without feeling part of the team, without being familiar with the culture of quality, and without receiving a message from the management, the bank staff will not be trained in the process of quality improvement.

📈The rating shows how in the first quarter of 2020 the average number of bank employees increased by 97 or 0.7%.

☑In Armenia, the Corporate Income tax rate is a tax collected from companies. Its amount is based on the net income companies obtain while exercising their business activity, normally during one business year. The benchmark we use refers to the highest rate for Corporate Income. Revenues from the Corporate Tax Rate are an important source of income for the government of Armenia.

📈Taxable profits are defined to be the difference between a taxpayer’s gross income and deductible expenses. Gross income encompasses revenues received by a taxpayer from all economic activities, unless expressly exempted under the law. Deductible expenses encompass all necessary and documented expenses that are directly related to conducting business or earning profit, unless a specific provision in the law restricts the deduction.

🔹️Rating shows the taxpayer tax rating (position) as of the large taxpayer monitoring. It shows the position for each company in the top taxpayers list published by the Tax service of the RA.



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