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In our latest release, we find the following insights:
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- The UK lockdown is working, even if measures are still more relaxed than in other countries.
- Traffic intensity and city activity in Italy, France and Spain remain around record lows.
- Germany and Sweden are at very low values for traffic and mobility, but still higher than for Italy, Spain and France.
- US activity also remains around record lows.
- Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney continue at surprisingly high levels of both traffic and city activity. Singapore has the highest city activity of the four, while Tokyo has the highest traffic activity.
- In China, Wuhan remains quiet, but Chongqing and Shenzhen are sometimes way above last year’s averages.
Let us know if you would like us to add any more cities.
UK
London
Birmingham
Italy
Milan
Rome
Spain
Madrid
Barcelona
France
Paris
Lyon
Sweden
Stockholm
Germany
Berlin
Frankfurt and Rhein-Ruhr region
United States
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Australia
Sydney
Japan
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Singapore
China
Bilal Hafeez is the CEO and Editor of Macro Hive. He spent over twenty years doing research at big banks – JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura, where he had various “Global Head” roles and did FX, rates and cross-markets research.
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