Friday Factoids March 7, 2014

… Pounds of Mardi Gras beads thrown from float in New

Orleans on Fat Tuesday.

28 Million

Source: LA Times, 2014

Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2014

76%… of Internet users think the Web has been good for society

Source: CNN Money, 2014

$15 Billion

… the amount of foreign aid the EU has offered the cash-strapped Ukraine

… of U.S. financial districts that saw retail sales depressed due to winter storms in early 2014.Source: U.S. Federal

Reserve

75%

Source: Berkshire Hathaway, 2014

… the number of Bank of America shares Berkshire Hathaway can buy for $5 billion by the end of 2014.

700 MILLION

£623

Source: Bank of England, 2014

… the amount business loans fell by

in the U.K. during February 2014

.

… of those spending their tax refund will use it to pay down debt or bills.58%

Source: Capital One, 2014

Source: The Baby Center, 2014

… of Millennial moms make at least one purchase from their smartphone per week.

44%

… the retail value of the “swag bags”

given out to celebrities at the

Academy Awards this year.$80

KSource: The New York

Times, 2014

Source: Cadbury, 2014

… what people will spend worldwide on Cadbury Cream Eggs between now and Easter.

$200 Million