Chocolate, Lyft's typo and India's election bonds

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 11:33 p.m.

b'It\'s Indicators of the Week \\u2014 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 (briefly) soaring.

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