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At the beginning of September, Chinese president Xi Jinping incensed Donald Trump by imposing a flurry of new import duties on US goods, including semiconductor chips and mobile phones. It was a retaliation too far for the US president, especially when the stock market reaction was to send shares in America’s second most valuable company at the time, Apple, tumbling by almost 5%. For many observers it was just another skirmish in the tit-for-tat trade war that had rumbled on for 20 months. But in Washington it came as a shock, and was the driving force behind Trump’s premature announcement the following month of an interim deal – one that after much wrangling finally came to fruition, or at least appeared to, last week. Trump said his administration would cancel a new round of 15% tariffs on Chinese goods including toys, phones and clothing that was set to take effect this weekend. In tweets, he added that the White House would halve duties already in place on $120bn … [Read more...] about On trade wars China is playing a careful game, but it holds more cards than Trump

By Hareesh TibrewalaDigital continues to be state of metamorphosis and evolution. And therefore every year is a new year and a new story for a digital agencies. Here are some key insights of what 2019 has been, for digital agencies in IndiaDigital is the new “mainline”A decade back digital used to be on slide 85 of a 90-slide campaign deck presentation to a client. And some loose change would be given out as digital budget. Now more and more RFPs are digital first RFPs. Also RFPs are better structured with well-defined KPIs, demonstrating better understanding of the importance of digital at the brands end.Increase in retainersAs the importance of digital increases, clients are now willing to pay much larger retainers, with corresponding increase in basket of services needed and team size on the account. Digital media spends have also leap frogged in 2019.Analytics, data and technologyBrands are beginning to see the importance of data and want to own the customer data, … [Read more...] about How 2019 was for Digital Agencies

Business people, doctors and pharmacists from throughout Louisiana are lining up to get 10 exclusive licenses to distribute medical marijuana to patients as the state narrows its list of applicants down to those most likely to win the right to take part in a new, tightly regulated industry. GB Sciences selects former Pepsi distribution site for medical marijuana facility in Baton Rouge GB Sciences, the Las Vegas-based company handling medical marijuana operations for the LSU AgCenter, has leased a former Pepsi distribution si… Pharmacies throughout state could open in the coming months if the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy hands out licenses at its upcoming March meeting.A selection committee in January interviewed the applicants for each of the nine regions that will have a medical marijuana pharmacy, and ranked the applicants in all but two of those regions. The board is slated to hand out nine permits — one for each of the designated regions throughout Louisiana … [Read more...] about Louisiana medical marijuana pharmacies: See possible locations, ownership for New Orleans, elsewhere

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Photo: Iris Productions This year’s Cannes Film Festival started a bit slowly, with some excellent, important, but relatively low profile films … and then basically lost its mind. There was a shocking new Quentin Tarantino movie, and then a predictably nutty press conference. There were competing standing ovations, each trying to be one minute longer than the previous. There were several masterpieces, some disappointments, and one straight-up pseudo-pornographic catastrophe that had the director apologizing and many viewers enraged. Here are our choices for the best films at the festival: AtlanticsAtlantics, which begins as a tragic story about a young Senegalese woman named Ada (Mame Bineta Sane), who’s arranged to marry a rich fuckboi but is madly in love with a poor construction worker, Sulieman. Early on in the film, Sulieman and the rest of the men in the village take to the sea on a dangerous voyage searching for better work opportunities, and when their boat … [Read more...] about Our 15 Favorite Movies From Cannes Film Festival 2019

Sen. Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyThe Hill's Morning Report — Sponsored by AdvaMed — House panel delays impeachment vote until Friday Senate gears up for battle over witnesses in impeachment trial McConnell: I doubt any GOP senator will vote to impeach Trump MORE (R-Utah) on Friday broke sharply with President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats ask if they have reason to worry about UK result Trump scramble to rack up accomplishments gives conservatives heartburn Seven years after Sandy Hook, the politics of guns has changed MORE's call for China and Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats ask if they have reason to worry about UK result Media organization fights Trump administration over Ukraine documents FOIA Buttigieg releases list of campaign bundlers MORE, calling it "wrong and appalling."  "When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in … [Read more...] about Romney: Trump requesting Biden investigation from China, Ukraine ‘wrong and appalling’