INFOGRAPHIC CONTACT SHEET Issue date: August 10th–16th 2013

None/don’t know

Down but not out

Source: Datafolha

Voting intention for presidentSelected candidates, % responding:

Dec 13th2012

Jan Feb Mar21st

Apr May Jun28th

Jun7th2013

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Dilma Rousseff

MarinaSilva

AécioNeves

EduardoCampos

1Recovery? What recovery?

Source: ONS *Excluding overtime (2012 constant prices)

2001=100

90

100

110

120

130

140

2001 03 05 07 09 11 12

Retail price indexGDP per personMedian hourlyearnings*

2Up or out

Source: ONS *2012 median gross annual pay

Employment by type, m

High-tier (£30,000-40,000*)

Mid-tier (£20,000-30,000*)

Low-tier (£10,000-20,000*)

0 1 2 3 4 5Managers &senior officialsAssociateprofessional& technicalProfessionaloccupations

Admin &secretarial

Skilledtrades

Process, plant &machine operatives

Elementaryoccupations

Personalservices

Sales & customerservices

0 1 2 3 4 5

0 1 2 3 4 5

2001 2013

Booking profits

Sources: Bloomberg; Citi Research

Price-to-book ratio

*Excludes loss-making divisions

Contribution to pre-tax profit* by activity, 2012, %

2012 20130

0.25

0.50

0.75

1.00

1.25

RBS

Lloyds

0

20

40

60

80

100

Lloyds RBS

Retail

Corporate/commercial

Insurance and central items

Investment bankand international

Cleared for take-off

Sources: CEIC; Eurostat

Air passengers, arrivals and departures, m

0

200

400

600

800

2004 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

China

United States

Euro area

1Bad air days

Source: World Bank

Average annual sulphur-dioxide concentrationsMicrograms per cubic metre

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

1965 70 75 80 85 90 95 2000 05 09

Japan

Chongqing

Beijing

Shanghai

3Turning the power down

Source: World Bank *2005$ at purchasing-power parity

Energy intensity of GDPTonnes of coal equivalent per $m* of GDP

0

200

400

600

800

1990 95 2000 05 09

China South KoreaUnited StatesJapan GermanyWorld

2Emission statement

Source: US Energy Information Administration

CO2 emissions from energy consumptionTonnes bn

0

3

6

9

1990 95 2000 05 11

United States

China

Beijing

C H I N A

Hong Kong

Shanghai

GUANGDONG

CHONGQING

GUIZHOU

XINJIANG

TIBET

Yangzi river basinYellow river basin

Flow control

Sources: SAFE; IMF

2012, $trnChina’s foreign assets and liabilitiesImpact of capital-accountliberalisation, % of GDP

0

1

2

3

4

5

Assets Liabilities

Reserves

FDI

Portfolioinvestment

Other

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Assets Liabilities Net assets

2010 Minimumimpact

Maximumimpact

The unbearable heaviness of owing

Source: Eurostat

General government gross debt as % of GDP

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2000 02 04 06 08 10 12 130

30

60

90

120

150

180

Ireland

Greece

Portugal

Line caught

Source: FAO

World production, tonnes, m

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

1961 70 80 90 2000 11

Beef

Farmed fish

Don’t keep it real

Source: RBCCapital Markets

*Based on a long/short position in threehighest/lowest yielding currencies,

includes carry trade

G10 foreign-exchange basket*Cumulative total return, %

1992 95 2000 05 10 1340

20

0

20

40

60

80

+

–Real

Nominal

CHINARUSSIA Hokkaido

Kyushu

N. KOREA

J A P A N

TokyoNagoya

Osaka

S. KOREAP A C I F I C

O C E A N

Fukuoka

Local revitalisation

Recently createdspecial zones for:

Proposed new zones

Internationalcompetitiveness

500 km

Over a barrel

Sources: Mexico’s CIDAC; company reports

Barrels of oil produced per employee, 2012

0 20 40 60 80

Statoil

Ecopetrol

Exxon Mobil

BP

Shell

Petrobras

Pemex

Most popular web-browser by country, May-July 2013:MicrosoftExplorer

GoogleChrome

MozillaFirefox

Source: StatCounter

Browse beatenGlobal desktop web-browser market share% of total

2008 09 10 11 12 130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70Microsoft Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

GOOGLE CHROME LAUNCHED

Others

Italy’s GDP

Source: Thomson Reuters

% change on previous quarter

2011 12 131.5

1.0

0.5

0

0.5+

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