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Chocolate, Lyft's typo and India's election bonds
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Date:2025-04-15 03:44:04
It's Indicators of the Week — our weekly look under the hood of our global economy. Today we look at why cocoa prices are soaring, whether India's electoral bonds are bad for democracy and how a typo sent Lyft shares soaring.
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