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Prices for rapeseed and canola fell to near “pre-war” levels
A new collapse in palm oil prices has increased the pressure on oilseed markets, which were not kept from falling even by forecasts of a reduction in rapeseed and soybean production. The prices of rapeseed and canola fell to the level that preceded the start of the active phase of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
August palm oil futures on Malaysia’s Bursa fell 8.2% to 4,350 ringgit/t or $986/t yesterday, having lost 12.6% in two sessions and almost 30% in the month on news of another hike quotas for the export of palm oil from Indonesia. The authorities of the world’s largest exporter of palm oil regulate the work of the market by prohibiting and permitting regulations, to which it reacts with violent speculative jumps in quotations.
November canola futures were flat during the week, but fell 3.7% to CAD 847/t or $658/t on Friday, down from 02/23/22. Favorable weather in Canada, with slightly lower temperatures than last year, makes for a good canola crop.
August rapeseed futures on the Paris MATIF fell 5.1% or €34/t in three sessions to €665.25/t or $694/t, losing 28.5% for the month.
Due to the drought in France, the European Commission lowered the forecast for rapeseed production by EU countries in 2022/23 from 18.1 to 17.86 million tons, which will exceed last year’s 17 million tons. At the same time, the forecast for sunflower production was increased from 10.34 to 11.14 million tons. and soybeans – from 2.66 to 3.05 million tons, so the total harvest of oilseeds will increase by 6.9% to 32.06 million tons.
In Ukraine, with the beginning of harvesting, the shortage of motor vehicles increased, which complicates exports and lowers the prices of grain and oilseeds. The prices for rapeseed of the new crop, following the world ones, have already fallen to $600-620/t with delivery to Poland or Germany, which is 13,000-13,500 hryvnias/t at the French elevator and corresponds to the level of two years ago, while last year prices reached 17,500-18,000 UAH/t ($595-605/t in the port).
Ukrainian sunflower and soybean prices also fell to UAH 10,000-12,000/t or $345-410/t delivered to the plant under pressure from falling demand for vegetable oils and difficulties with meal exports.
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The locally-assembled (CKD) Volvo XC40 Recharge T5 will be launching this month!
Volvo is stern in its direction towards the electric future with the introduction of the fully electric
Volvo Car Malaysia (VCM) has just launched the 2021 Volvo XC40 T5 Recharge in Malaysia.
Volvo Malaysia has just refreshed their best selling large SUV, the 2020 Volvo XC90.
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Volvo Cars welcomes former Mercedes-Benz designer Claudia Braun and former Facebook web designer Thomas
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Volvo Car Malaysia today paved a new path for customers with the launch of its 360 total-care used car
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Volvo Malaysia released a special teaser for the third generation S60 on their social media platforms
Volvo Cars have just announced its biggest global recall ever.
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From dropping its cars from the air to implementing a 180 km/h speed limit, Volvo Cars has been always
The Volvo XC40 Recharge Pure Electric is due to launch in Thailand in March 2021.
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Facebook reported its Q3 numbers this afternoon.The big news is that, after several quarters of revenue deceleration, Facebook finally stabilised them this quarter.
In addition, Facebook managed to actually re-accelerate its advertising revenues, increasing them 32% y/y this quarter, up from 28% growth y/y last quarter.
One reason Facebook has managed to start growing again is its mobile advertising business, which grew from a $180 million revenue run rate in July to a $500 million run rate this quarter.
Advertising revenues are now 14% of Facebook’s business, only months after being 0%. That’s wonderful news considering mobile was supposed to be Facebook’s biggest weakness.
–Total Revenue: $1.26 billion vs $1.229 billion expectations.
–EPS: $0.12 vs. $0.11 expectations.
–Year-over-year ad revenue growth accelerated to 36%, up from 28% last quarter. That’s acceleration in Facebook’s core business and its huge news.
–14% of Facebook’s ad business comes from mobile now.
Facebook will host a conference call to discuss these results at 5 P.M. eastern, and we’ll be taking live notes here.
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A lack of top-tier Canadian reports subjected the Loonie to countercurrency price action last week. Will the tides change for the comdoll this week?
Here are potential catalysts you should watch out for:
Retail sales (Jan. 23, 2:30 pm GMT)
Higher motor vehicle and gasoline sales contributed the most to increased retail activity in October.
The bulls weren’t impressed, however, since both headline and retail sales missed estimates for the month. In fact, Loonie traders shrugged off higher crude oil prices at the time in favor of pricing in the lower retail sales reports.
This week, analysts see the headline retail sales dipping by 0.6% for the month of November. It doesn’t get better with the core figure which is expected to fall by 0.5% after coming in flat in October.
Word around is the recent postal strike might have dented on online shopping activity, but that brick-and-mortar stores have reported strong pre-holiday sales.
Oil price updates
Crude oil hit its 2019 highs earlier today when a report showed refinery activity in China – the world’s second-largest oil consumer – hit a new record last year.The report came after the OPEC had already boosted prices when it cut its output by more than analysts had expected.
Will the Loonie take cues from oil prices again this week?
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The PlayStation 5 release is right around the corner, and there has already been a lot of exciting news about the amazing games coming to the advanced console. Among teasers for epic titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, it was also confirmed that there would be a brand new poker game for the next-generation device.
With poker being one of the world’s most popular card games, developers have tried to bring it to consoles with varying success in the past. If this new offering is popular, it could turn poker into a lucrative option for console developers and may lead to many more titles.
Poker Game Already Announced For PS5
Among the titles that have officially been confirmed for the PS5 line-up, the Ripstone Games offering is one of the most exciting options. Poker Club is being touted as the most immersive poker experience ever seen on computers. It will use state-of-the-art graphics to provide an incredibly realistic feel and give the sense that the player is at the felt, caught up in the action.
It is fair to say that this poker title looks superior to everything that has come before it. The rich and detailed visuals make it seem like the player is watching a live poker game on television. There is set to be a vast variety of settings and ways to play as well. Players can start off playing at tables in dingy bars against amateurs, and work their way up through the ranks until they are competing in major competitions like the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.
Game Has Taken Inspiration From the Varied Offerings Found Online
The early signs of the Ripstone Games title suggest that it has taken inspiration from the hugely successful online casino sector when it comes to the variety needed to keep players interested. Looking at Royal Panda’s online poker offerings as a case study, there is a diverse range of options designed to appeal to a wide demographic. These include unique games like Joker Poker, Deuces Wild, and Aces & Faces Poker.
Not only do the options at Royal Panda help to attract a lot of different types of player, but they would also appeal to poker experts who want to sharpen their various skillsets by diversifying the games they play. By offering a similar kind of abundance of choice, the Ripstone Games title may be able to attract casual players as well as experts.
Past Poker Offerings Have Failed to Leave a Lasting Impression
There have been precious few memorable poker games over the years, with developers frequently failing to make their offerings live up to their potential. For a game that is so well-loved online, it is shocking that poker games haven’t been bigger hits on consoles.
Perhaps the most notable poker game to date was Prominence Poker. The PS4 title earned a score of 9/10 on Steam and was praised for staying true to the laws of the game. However, it was lacking variety and was extremely limited in what it could offer players. One of the most-loved versions of poker on console was found in Red Dead Redemption 2 as a side game. It was immersive and enjoyable, but it was also extremely limited. However, when players got bored they were able to continue with the main game.
From early reports about Poker Club for the PS5, there is evidence to suggest that Ripstone Games may have learnt from the past mistakes of other games. The developer has seen that online poker is all about offering players a lot of choice, so has set about creating a vast and varied game. If this is a hit, poker could make a comeback as a popular console genre.


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Our city has a soft spot for craft beer; since 2013, Notts has been dedicating an entire week to celebrating hops, IPAs and other, suchlike beery-stuff. We at LeftLion have teamed up with Nottingham Craft Beer Week and NFU Mutual to present to you the very first Nottingham Craft Beer Festival.
The fest will take place on Friday 15 - Saturday 16 June in Sneinton Market, falling right at the end of this years’ Craft Beer Week. The two day event will be split into three sessions, where your lot can get your gobs rahnd hundreds of beers from different bars and breweries who operate locally, nationally and internationally.
Of course, there can’t be beer without a banging selection of grub to line the stomach, which is why we’ve rounded up some of the best street food we could find to keep you satisfied. We’ve also got a line-up of our favourite musicians up our sleeves.
Festival organiser and our main man, Al Gilby, said: “We love a good beer festival and the idea of putting one on in the Sneinton Market Avenues complex in the middle of summer was too good to resist. There’ll be so many great beers on offer to taste, you won’t know where to start.”
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund or PIF has recently invested in both CAPCOM and Nexon.
Both game companies are now part of the many video game investments from the initiative chaired by Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It has now purchased stakes of more than five percent in both of these companies.
According to media outlet Bloomberg (Paywall), the PIF now has a holding of more than $1 billion across the two game companies. The initiative said in a statement that this new move of theirs is just based purely on an investment opportunity.
Nexon is known for its popular online RPG Maple Story. CAPCOM is known for their franchises like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, and more. Both now join the many game companies that PIF has invested in like Take Two Initiative, EA, and Activision Blizzard.
Prince Mohammed bin Salman is popularly known for his love of video games and his preferred game series of choice is Call of Duty. This could be the reason for his investment in Activision Blizzard.


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Pixel Tablet's 'Cast to devices nearby' feature nearly here (APK teardown)
- The latest version of Google Play Services appears to enable the Pixel Tablet’s “Cast to devices nearby” feature.
- This was rumored in August and demoed at CES 2024, but Google still hasn’t given a specific launch date.
- The feature allows you to “throw” media from your phone to the tablet (or vice versa) just by being in proximity.
In August 2023, frequent Android Authority contributor Mishaal Rahman showed a new feature for the Pixel Tablet. Although it was bare bones at the time, it appeared to allow users to “throw” media from their phone to the Pixel Tablet just by putting the two devices near one another. At CES 2024, Google demoed this and gave it a name: “Cast to devices nearby.” However, the company hasn’t said when we’ll actually get to use it, but the latest Google Play Services release suggests it will be very, very soon.
In the latest Google Play Services 24.10.16 beta, we’ve spotted strings that directly reference the “Cast to devices nearby” feature:
<string name="ftue_opt_in_half_sheet_description">You can now cast media to any Pixel Tablet on this Wi-Fi network just by holding your phone in front of
<string name="ftue_opt_in_half_sheet_title">A new way to cast to tablets</string>
As the strings suggest, you will need to have your phone and tablet on the same Wi-Fi for this to work. Also, although the string doesn’t say so, Google confirmed at CES that this will require a Pixel phone. Google also confirmed that it will work with Spotify and YouTube Music, but declined to say if other services would be supported at launch or if any other services would see after-launch support.
There are several things that are unclear:
- Which Pixel phones will be supported
- The protocol used for the hand-off (NFC, Bluetooth, UWB, etc.)
- When the rollout will actually begin
Google only used the usual “later this year” timeline when it announced this feature, so who knows when it will actually land. However, since it is appearing in Google Play Services, it’s only a matter of weeks until we’ll probably see it roll out. It’s possible this could land with the next Pixel Feature Drop, which we expect in either June or July. It’s also possible this could land even earlier than that, but we’ll need to wait and see.


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Well, and here I thought the Summer discount codes from Time-Life were as good as it got.
Amazon.com has started taking pre-orders for a September 29th shipping of the complete RGB DVD series collection, by Time-Life – currently, Amazon’s discount puts the set at… have a seat…
BUT WAIT! Before anyone goes too crazy over the number, it should be pointed out that Canadians still currently have a comperable deal until Saturday, with the previously mentioned TLCSHARE code, which is $160.98CDN, shipping included – The Amazon.com pre-order works out to $137US plus shipping, which would put the final price en par with the Canadian Time-Life deal.
It should also be pointed out that Amazon is stating it reserves the right to alter their price later, better or worse. Still, at face value, this is an amazing deal for the last of the hold-outs.
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New Delhi: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has dismissed an order of the dedicated bankruptcy court initiating insolvency proceedings against e-commerce major Flipkart. A three-member bench of the NCLAT has directed the interim resolution professional (IRP) appointed by the Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to hand over the records as well as the assets of the company back to its promoter immediately. Cloudwalker Streaming Technologies Pvt Ltd, an operational creditor of Flipkart that used to supply the ecommerce major imported LED TVs, had filed a petition before NCLT contending that Flipkart defaulted for an amount of ?26.95 crores.
NCLT had issued its insolvency order against Flipkart on October 24, 2019. The e-commerce firm challenged it before the appellate tribunal. NCLAT rejected the lower court order saying the demand notice delivered under Section 8(1) of the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was “not proper and was also incomplete”. “The operational creditor failed to submit any documents to prove in existence of the operational debt and the amount in default,” the appellate tribunal said in its order issued on February 24. It observed that Cloudwalker Streaming also failed to submit a copy of invoices and all the documents referred to in the application. “Flipkart India Pvt Ltd (corporate debtor) is released from the corporate insolvency resolution process," the appellate tribunal said.
Cloudwalker Streaming said Flipkart entered into a supply agreement for LED TVs on December 29, 2016. Flipkart received delivery of the first few batches but after that it avoided taking delivery of the LED televisions on the ground of lack of warehouse space, it said. It also alleged that Flipkart was putting pressure on Cloudwalker Streaming to offer the already imported and warehoused LED TVs, at a discounted price. Challenging the order of NCLT, Flipkart contended that the order was passed without appreciating the fact that Cloudwalker Streaming has not produced any documentary evidence as purchase orders, acceptance letters, invoices and proof of any intimation of sale to the end customers or any postdelivery services with specific reference to the amounts.
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First Images Of The 2024 Kia Sorento Facelift Have Emerged
Get ready for a slightly revised look for the Kia Sorento starting 2024.
Malaysians may have only just gotten used to the look and feel of the fourth generation Kia Sorento, but already the facelift model is being shown online. This is because our market is a little behind the wave. Back in 2020 when this 4th generation Sorento was first globally revealed, the Kia brand in Malaysia was changing hands from Naza to Bermaz Auto (by way of Dinamikjaya Motors). Upon relaunch, Kia Malaysia focused on making a success of the Carnival before focusing on the more competitive and less lucrative large SUV market with the Sorento. You can read our review of this award winning SUV here.
For those interested in Kia’s next step, the Sorento facelift model is already coming to its final stages or preparation. The South Korean carmaker recently showed three images of the new model. The changes to the Sorento are noticeable in the front, but rather minor on the side profile, rear and cabin.
Starting in front, the large Tiger Nose grille has been reshaped and now is only connected to the daytime running lights up top. The headlamps are now vertically stacked with quad projector headlights on either side. Foglights are still ‘hidden’ in the front bumper grille, but here the shapes have also changed slightly. The glossy black trim piece is gone and instead we get a more angular and rugged off-roader look with a faux skid plate as the front bumper lip. The air inlets on the side of the bumper are also enlarged. Another change comes to the position of the ‘Kia’ logo. It now sits on the hood rather than in the centre of the front grille.
Around back, the changes are less dramatic. The twin vertical taillights have fused at the top, leading to a new, integrated graphic. The ‘Sorento’ badging has shrunk and been moved off to one side. The rear bumper is now reshaped to mirror the more rugged look of the new front bumper. Reverse lights are now tucked all the way at the bottom. Besides new dual tone alloy rims, there don’t appear to be changes to the side profile besides a minor change to the side skirts that now feature a little less black cladding.
Inside, the cabin changes too look minimal. The dashboard is definitely new. Kia has ditched the strange dual air vent design for two larger vents on the side and slim, integrated vents at the centre. The new look necessitates a redesign of the climate controls, which are now slimmer and tucked under the centre vents rather than between them. The digital displays look to be curved units this time around, and the entire housing is ‘floating’ for a more futuristic look. The steering wheel and door cards look to be about the same as before. There are reportedly new interior colours available as well, but our guess is that they’re not coming to Malaysia.
More technical details for the new Sorento facelift will be publicized in August.
Staggered Generations Compared To Hyundai Santa Fe
Just last week, we saw the Hyundai Santa Fe 5th generation model come out with a much boxier design. So, why didn’t the Kia Sorento get such a drastic makeover this time around?
While it’s true that Hyundai and Kia are somewhat related and do share platforms, technologies and parts, the two companies operate independently of each other when creating products. So, while the Sorento and Santa Fe are almost ‘sister’ products, they’ve both on a slightly skewed lifecycle at the moment. That’s largely because 4th generation Santa Fe was initially built on the Y7 platform before the 2021 facelift brought a major mechanical overhaul with the new N3 platform. Hyundai then decided to pivot to a new direction, bringing an all-new generation Santa Fe with a boxy design language for 2024.
The fourth generation Kia Sorento, on the other hand debuted in 2020 on the new N3 platform and now will only get a minor redesign instead of a new platform for the 2024 facelift.


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ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff is being updated for some users to September 2023.
Google has revealed plans to introduce new ad formats for its AI-driven search experience, known as Search Generative Experience (SGE). This information was confirmed during the company’s earnings call. CEO Sundar Pichai stated that Google aims to develop a native ad format tailored for each phase of the search journey. He expressed confidence in transitioning from conventional search methods to this new AI-enhanced format, drawing parallels with past transitions like desktop to mobile.
SGE was initially launched during Google I/O and was made available to U.S. users, followed by users in Japan and India. Google already places ads above the SGE results on desktop and below on mobile. They have also previewed customized ads within the SGE that will come with a “sponsored” tag.
While Google earned a revenue of 76.69 billion in Q3 2023, showcasing an 11% YoY growth, its advertising business was responsible for59.65 billion of this total. Meanwhile, its Cloud earnings stood at 8.41 billion, which was lower than the anticipated8.64 billion. Lastly, the company shared that their video feature, Shorts, has witnessed an increase in viewership, with over 70 billion views daily.
Amazon has introduced a new generative AI-powered tool for advertisers to create more engaging ads. The tool is designed to address a common challenge faced by 75% of advertisers in a survey: the difficulty of building ad creatives. Amazon’s generative AI tool assists advertisers in generating lifestyle imagery for their products, enhancing ad performance. For instance, showcasing a product, like a toaster, in a real-life setting (e.g., on a kitchen counter) can increase click-through rates by up to 40%. This tool is user-friendly, allowing advertisers to select their product and instantly receive lifestyle and brand-themed images generated by AI. They can then modify the images using text prompts and test multiple versions. This solution caters to both small advertisers without advanced creative capabilities and major brands seeking efficiency. The image generation tool is currently in beta and will be made available to more advertisers over time, based on feedback.
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Challenges Met—and Exceeded
Meyer Manufacturing Corp. has received the 2022 Dealer’s Choice Award in the Short-Line category. In addition to the overall honor, this is the first time a company has ranked first in all the dealer-rated categories. “It’s a pretty special privilege,” says Larry Meyer, Vice President. “That we could do this with all the competition out there, isn’t an easy task. We’re humbled, and I couldn’t be prouder of the people we have working for us.” Meyer Manufacturing works with more than 400 dealers throughout the United States and Canada.
The company was founded in 1944 by Larry’s father, Alvin, who patented a false-gate forage box, which was redesigned and became the first-known self-unloading forage box. The family business now extends to the third generation and continues to grow based on the same dedication to product innovation and serving its customers—both dealers and the end customers.
To deliver that service, Meyer says they try to put themselves in their dealer’s or retail customer’s shoes and to understand how they would like to be treated. And that includes putting the dealer first in the company’s decision-making and extends to discussing issues or concerns with them on a weekly basis.
The Dealer’s Choice Survey is also a key tool for the company. “There is no unimportant category in the survey,” says Meyer. The team uses the survey to see where improvements are needed—and then makes them. That’s one thing that Meyer emphasized: There is no waiting eight, 10, 12 months to make a change. If something needs to be changed, they do it immediately.
For example, Meyer says that the company came in lower than they would have liked on the survey in the warranty category. That was the impetus for the team to find out what was holding the warranty work back and making immediate improvements. This year, they came out on top among all the competitors in that category.
The Force of the Pandemic
Meyer is frank about the challenges that the pandemic has imposed on the industry in general and his business specifically. From trouble getting parts to shipping delays to increases in container costs, there are myriad ways the pandemic continues to put pressure on meeting and exceeding dealers’ and customers’ demands.
“This year, the biggest challenge was to keep the organization running—trying to get product out the door and make the delivery dates we’d promised. And from feedback we’ve heard from customers and dealers, we’ve been more successful at that than anyone in the industry,” says Meyer.
While success in any business is a complex set of factors, he isolated several that have served the company well over the pandemic and specifically this past year: inventory and being financially secure. Having parts on hand—instead of delayed somewhere along the supply chain—gives them the ability to meet demand more quickly. That often means they need to “over inventory,” which is only possible if when you have the capital. “There are companies who can’t do that. We can. We’ve got the ability to, say, take twice as much as we need when it’s available. So, we take it when we can get it,” says Meyer.
As far as maintaining their top ranking for the coming year, Meyer has a clear strategy: “Do the same types of things we’ve been doing, keep our staff improving and our salespeople out on the road. If everyone can improve a bit, we will stay in the top spot.”


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IKEA Winnipeg is making it easy for residents to recycle unwanted furniture items, electronics, and clothing this weekend.
The retailer’s fourth annual Eco-lution event is Saturday, May 25 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
That’s when Winnipeggers can stop by 500 Sterling Lyon Parkway and make their donation instead of taking their items to the landfill.
“Our annual Eco-lution events have enabled Winnipeggers to divert thousands of pounds of furniture, mattresses, electronics and household items from our landfills,” said Jennifer Allen, IKEA Winnipeg store manager.
“We are proud that this year, this event will bring together even more community partners, who support us in providing the resources our visitors need to create a more sustainable life at home.”
Furniture and clothing will be donated to the Salvation Army, and mattresses and electronics will go to Mother Earth Recycling.


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The New Zealand Food & Grocery Council has reacted to the proposal of a market study into supermarket prices, which was recently announced by Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern and her team.
NZ FGC CEO Katherine Rich comments: “From the perspective of food and grocery manufacturers in New Zealand, we agree. It will be positive for our industry, which – unfortunately for manufacturers – faces the most concentrated market in terms of supermarket ownership in the world.
“It would be valuable to make transparent the effects such market power and the impact of the array of costs, rebates, deductions, claims, discounts, shelf auctions and supermarket margin expectations have on final price.
“The Food & Grocery Council regularly deals with reports of additional demands being made at the store level. This announcement in itself should have an effect on some of the more questionable claims and demands being made of suppliers by stores that, from time to time, overstep the line between robust negotiation and bullying,” says Rich.
For more information, visit https://www.labour.org.nz/release-a-fair-price-for-groceries-and-building-supplies


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Iconic Canadian jeweller Birks has just changed its name to ‘Maison Birks’, and it’s opening new boutiques carrying only Birks-branded jewelry. These moves are partly a response to increased competition within Canada’s premium jewelry market.
The first “mono-brand” Maison Birks opened last week at Mapleview Shopping Centre in Burlington Ontario, and a second opens this week at Montreal’s Quartier DIX30. More mono-brand Maison Birks stores will follow.
The new stores are relatively small. The Mapleview Birks is 1,385 square feet, and the Quartier DIX30 Birks is about 1,500 square feet. As a comparison, Birks’ largest stores are in the 15-20,000 square foot range.
Maison Birks has a new logo (inspired by a diamond - see above) and will commence a new advertising campaign. In addition, Maison Birks has launched 16 new jewelry collections that include bridal pieces featuring Canadian diamonds.


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Wholesale inflation in Japan jumped to its highest level in more than 40 years in October, echoing soaring Chinese factory gate prices.
Japan’s corporate goods price index, which measures the cost at which wholesalers buy materials from producers, rose by 8% compared with October last year, and by 1.2% month-on-month. The increase was the biggest since January 1980.
On Wednesday, China reported the highest rate of factory gate inflation in 26 years and official data showed that US consumer prices rose at their fastest rate in three decades.
The rise was driven by sharp increases in the prices of commodities, with petrol and coal among the biggest movers in the index. The two fossil fuels rose 7.9% compared with September. Timber rose 3.6% and iron and steel increased 3.3%.
Analysts expect Japan’s underlying inflation to rebound after it turned positive for the first time this year in September.
“As the drag from mobile phone tariffs fades in the first half of next year, underlying inflation will turn positive,” said Tom Learmouth, Japan economist at Capital Economics.
“Looking ahead, headline inflation may reach around 1.3% early next year as the delayed impact of higher crude oil prices on utility bills filters through,” he added.
Last week, Japan’s new government and the country’s central bank confirmed their commitment to cooperate on achieving 2% inflation, a move set to temper market speculation of an early stimulus exit, local media reported.
Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda reaffirmed the commitment in a meeting with senior government ministers in a meeting on November 4, the BoJ said after a meeting with finance minister Shunichi Suzuki and economy minister Daishiro Yamagiwa.
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China Wants to Make It Easier for Money-Losing Startups to Go Public on Mainland
China’s stock market regulator has proposed relaxing requirements for infant biopharmaceutical, security and microchip companies looking to list on the Chinese mainland, in an effort to support the country’s drive to develop its high-tech capabilities.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) published a raft of documents on Friday suggesting that the State Council, China’s cabinet, do away with rules requiring that companies in the sectors become profitable before listing on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
Regardless of their potential, biopharmaceuticals, security surveillance and microchip companies often struggle to make a profit in their first few years as they focus on the research and development of an advanced product, rather than sales. The CSRC’s proposals would allow them to attract additional investment in their nascent years. The documents do not provide details on how the changes might be implemented in practice, however.
The proposals give momentum to suggestions made during the “two sessions,” China’s annual meeting of its top legislative and advisory bodies, that more be done by financial markets to support tech development. It also supports the government’s wider effort to upgrade China’s high-tech manufacturing capabilities as part of its “Made in China 2025” program, in a pivot away from intensive, low-end manufacturing and infrastructure-led growth.
The CSRC suggestions complement efforts by regulatory authorities to encourage China’s overseas-listed tech giants to also list on the domestic stock marks through its Chinese depositary receipts (CDRs) program. Around 26 Chinese tech companies have sold $8.5 billion new shares through IPOs as part of the CDR trial program that launched this summer, although it was something of a letdown when tech leaders such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. failed to reach agreements with regulators in time for the launch.
The CSRC rules show that the government is looking to capitalize on the vast potential of China’s medical tech industry, with the domestic market expected to rise from $122.6 billion in value in 2017 to around $175 billion by 2022, according to health-care company IQVIA. Biopharmaceuticals, which includes innovations such as such using big data for gene sequencing, are expected to experience major growth, with financing in the global medical industry rising 57% year-on-year in 2017 to 151.1 billion yuan ($22.1 billion), according to industry platform vcbeat.net.
However, even if the State Council approves the CSRC’s suggestions, domestic bourses may struggle to attract companies lured by the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The Hong Kong exchange has already relaxed profitability requirements, but also provides much more concrete guidelines on other key areas for biopharmaceutical firms, such as requiring that companies looking to list first qualify for clinical trials for their drugs or medical devices. The Hong Kong exchange also has the advantage that it is much easier for firms listing there to offer equity incentives for foreign talent whom the infant company might want to attract, whereas it is much harder to do so on the Chinese mainland, according to industry experts.
In contrast, efforts to encourage security and chip companies to list on the domestic bourses may prove more successful, as such companies often rely on government procurement contracts and may therefore be more easily influenced by the government. For example, security companies such as camera-maker Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co. Ltd. look to the government as a major potential customer.
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The Indian manufacturing sector is a crucial part of the country’s economy, accounting for around 16% of its GDP. Over the last few years, it has been attracting considerable attention from investors and policymakers alike. The ‘Make in India’ campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 aimed to boost the manufacturing sector and make India a global manufacturing hub. The campaign has been successful in attracting significant foreign investment and spurring the growth of the sector.
India’s manufacturing industry has come a long way over the past few decades. From a relatively small and fragmented sector, it has grown into a thriving industry with diversified product offerings. One of the most significant drivers of this change has been technology. Rapid advancements in technology have enabled Indian manufacturers to produce high-quality products at competitive prices, making them globally competitive.
The government has played an essential role in creating an environment conducive to the growth of the manufacturing industry. The ‘Make in India’ campaign, along with various policy initiatives, has made it easier to do business in India. The introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) has made it simpler for businesses to operate across India. The easing of foreign direct investment (FDI) norms has attracted significant foreign investment. The government’s ambitious ‘National Infrastructure Pipeline’ project, which aims to invest more than $1.5 trillion in infrastructure over the next five years, will further boost the manufacturing sector.
The rise of the manufacturing industry has also led to job creation, particularly in rural areas. The government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign has encouraged entrepreneurs to set up manufacturing units in rural areas. This has not only created job opportunities but has also led to the development of these areas.
The future of the Indian manufacturing industry looks bright. The industry is expected to continue growing at a steady pace, driven by increasing investments in infrastructure, rising demand for consumer goods, and the government’s focus on promoting the sector. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for self-reliance in various sectors, including manufacturing. The government’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative aims to make India a self-reliant nation by promoting domestic manufacturing and reducing dependence on imports. This initiative presents significant opportunities for the Indian manufacturing industry.
In conclusion, the rise of the Indian manufacturing industry has been a remarkable success story. The government’s efforts, coupled with advancements in technology, have enabled Indian manufacturers to produce high-quality products at competitive prices, making them globally competitive. The industry’s growth has led to job creation and the development of rural areas. With various policy initiatives and the government’s focus on promoting the sector, the future of Indian manufacturing looks bright. The industry is likely to play a crucial role in India’s journey towards becoming a world economic powerhouse.


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What holds next for India’s relationship with Bangladesh amidst the Indo-China conflict?
he ongoing Indo-China conflict could reverberate new relations in the regional South Asian geo-political dimensions. Contrary to beliefs that the rivalry between two neighbours makes the relations with other neighbours vulnerable, Bangladesh emerges as a curious case.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the “neighbourhood first” policy in motion when he invited the heads of states from Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Maldives, and Bhutan to his swearing-in ceremony in 2014.
This policy set Indian foreign policy’s focus towards its neighbours. However, the ongoing Indo-China conflict has seen India’s oldest ally, Bangladesh, tilting towards China.
The India-Bangladesh relations go way back -- in fact, India was the first country to recognize the sovereignty of Bangladesh and establish diplomatic ties in 1971. Beijing began its diplomatic relations with Dhaka in 1976.
The Sino-Bangladesh relations began as a process of comprehensive cooperation for trade, economy, and technology. The Sino-Bangladesh relationship has transformed from being limited to a few sectors to China becoming the largest trading partner of Bangladesh, surpassing India in 2015.
Effective from July 1, Bangladesh received tariff exemptions from Beijing for 97% of Bangladeshi products. Bangladesh has also received a proposal from China for much-needed medical supplies to tackle the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Though the proposal came with the condition to form a sister city alliance with Chinese cities, it is still a huge lending hand from the Chinese. Sister city alliances are considered to develop people-to-people relations across borders by promoting commercial and cultural relationships.
Some Indian media reported China’s offer as “charity” for Bangladesh, which angered Bangladeshis. The uproar on social media was such that the newspaper apologized.
Also, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh AK Abdul Momen rejected the criticism of the Chinese deal. Clearly, China’s shadow is now looming over India-Bangladesh relations.
Prime Minister Modi’s “Neighbourhood First” policy helped to settle border disputes with Bangladesh and smoothed ties with Sri Lanka and Bhutan in his first term. However, in this second term since, those developments seem to have worn off.
With increasing tensions with China, there was silence from India’s oldest allies. This should signal India to reflect on its relations with their neighbouring countries.
India has been trying to form economic and political relations beyond its neighbours, such as the Quad collective of democracies, the US-led Indo-Pacific group of nations. The aspirations to establish newer relations must not come at the cost of losing its regional ties, especially with Beijing’s expansionist strategies in the South China Sea and South Asia.
Moreover, China has stated that Dhaka will be a priority should it develop a vaccine against the coronavirus. Hualong Yan, the deputy chief of mission at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka, said: “Of course, Bangladesh is our important friend and Bangladesh will surely get priority.”
India is also in the process of amping up its relationship with Bangladesh. In his wishes for Bangladesh on Mujib Borsho, the Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said: “As we are also looking at creating a new economic partnership for the future, there are opportunities to go beyond trade in goods and look at the trade in services.”
The minister also mentioned that India is prepared to further assist Bangladesh in mitigating the health and economic impacts of the pandemic. The impasse on the India-Bangladesh border trade which has been disrupted since March 23 due to lockdown restrictions was lifted on July 4.
Since March 2020, only one-way trade from India was permitted and no export from Bangladesh was allowed due to the integrated check point (ICP) restrictions, causing negative impact on India-Bangladesh bilateral ties. The first truck from Bangladesh entering India after three months has restored the bilateral trade.
Bangladesh also recently requested China for an infrastructure fund worth $64 billion. This request is made through the Investment Cooperation Working Group with China which was established last year.
With strong competition from China, India will struggle to keep its age-old friendship with Bangladesh. With a common cultural and linguistic connection, India still has the potential to mend and establish positive working relations with Bangladesh.
India must also acknowledge that Bangladesh may or may not form friendly relations with other countries in pursuance of its own benefits. Through careful steps, it should double its efforts to keep its long friendship with Bangladesh alive.
Mozammil Ahmad is an independent researcher and a student of law at University of Delhi.


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The Samsung Galaxy range isn’t quite big enough. You can always squeeze a new device in between two others, right? Right. To prove that point, allow us to present the Samsung Galaxy Reverb – a mid-range blower designed to lure in anyone who thinks that the Galaxy S3 might be a bit too showy.
The Galaxy Reverb is landing for pre-order on August 29th, and is exclusive to Virgin Mobile. Looks-wise, it’s not a million miles off from the curviness of the Galaxy S3, although it is a more pocketable beast.
The Reverb’s got a 4-inch display, a 1.4GHz processor, a 5-Meg rear camera and a 1.3-Meg front one. There’s nary a whiff of Jelly Bean, but the Reverb does run on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which puts it ahead of a huge proportion of its Android brethren.
The Samsung Galaxy Reverb will go on sale in September for $250 (£157)


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RISI comments on new BCAP draft rules
February 9, 2010
By Canadian Biomass
Feb. 9, 2010, Boston, MA – The Wood Biomass Market Report comments that a new draft of rules announced for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program comes closer to providing assurances that wood for higher-value products will not be diverted for use as biomass.
Feb. 9, 2010,
Boston, MA – The Wood Biomass Market Report comments that a new draft of rules
announced by the Farm Services Agency (FSA) for the Biomass Crop Assistance
Program (BCAP) comes closer to providing assurances that wood for higher-value
products will not be diverted for use as biomass. Since the BCAP's inception
last year, there has been concern among traditional forest products players
that it would drive up prices for composite panel furnish, oriented strand
board raw material, pulpwood, and even some low-grade sawlogs.
The report states
that payments made through the BCAP program are just now flowing to the market from
a $517-million allocation that is good through March 31, 2010. Although these
payments do not appear to have had adverse effects to date on pulp and panel
producers, this is almost solely because of market conditions and should not be
an indication of the true effect the BCAP could have if new rules are not
executive editor of the Wood Biomass Market Report, says, "It appears the FSA is
finding a deeper understanding of the possibly damaging cross-currents BCAP may
have in wood markets. The recent draft rule at least makes an attempt to
establish a wall between true wood biomass and the fibre sources more suited to
higher and better use at both wood-based panel and pulp mills."
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This is a great infographic from CBInsights that shows the acceleration in the number of unicorns being created over the past 18 months. This trend says more about the amount of capital available for this end of the market than a sudden change in the tech ecosystem's ability to create large businesses. Unfortunately, it makes very good press and is widening the perception that the whole of tech is in a bubble. This is not what we are seeing outside the unicorn club.
There are currently 141 unicorn companies globally. Recently, Mark Suster and the team at Upfront Ventures published their Venture Outlook 2016 report, which highlighted the insane pace at which billion-dollar companies are being created. With this in mind, we decided to visualize the increasingly crowded unicorn club.


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The death toll of British people killed in the Tunisian beach massacre is expected to rise to at least 30.
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City Spy: Bringing new meaning to old concepts
Published: 25 April 2013
The Oxford English Dictionary compilers might like to add a new meaning to its definition of the word “saved”. Doesn’t quite tally with the modern world.
Evidence? Accountancy firm Ernst & Young waxed lyrical about having “saved” the failed fashion chain Republic by selling it out of administration to Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct in February.
Its fee-making director Hunter Kelly said: “In what has been a very challenging time and volatile climate for retailers, it is particularly pleasing to have completed the successful sale of Republic, saving 2100 jobs across the UK High Street and at its Leeds-based headquarters.” Fast-forward two months, and sadly for the staff concerned, Sports Direct has already shut 12 of the 114 Republic shops it “saved”. And it’s now talking to landlords on the rest to link rental payments with store turnover, meaning more closures likely. Seems like “saved” now means “doomed”.
Cool Hand Luke is no handyman
Heard the one about the serial entrepreneur being mistaken for a handyman? Luke Johnson was guest speaker at last night’s inaugural Small Cap Awards at Bafta on Piccadilly.
He arrived in his usual slightly dishevelled way — open-necked shirt, no black tie — but gave what listeners say was an inspiring speech. He then retired to the back of the David Lean room and leant against a wall to listen to the prize-giving. Unfortunately an unnamed PR for the event was becoming increasingly flustered about the rising heat in the room. She accosted Johnson, asking him to “DO SOMETHING!” about the air conditioning in the mistaken belief he was a Bafta engineer.
Shortly after Johnson made his excuses and left.
City drinks to Maggie and St George
Out and about in the in the Square Mile on St George’s Day, one thing was highly noticeable — the gusto with which our country’s patron saint was being celebrated. Gangs of traders draped in flags filled the pubs, far more so than usual.
What could be behind the surge in patriotism? A hangover, so to speak, from the Thatcher funeral?
* The world of retail property descended on the Victoria & Albert Museum last night for the retail property event of the year — the CBRE annual bash. Guests sipped champagne and visited the David Bowie exhibition. Bowie is known for his changing persona but the retail property elite were certain of the original name of last night’s annual reception. Malcolm Dalgleish created the event at the Royal Academy, and it has been an annual occasion at the V&A since 1996. US giant CBRE bought Dalgleish’s business in 2005 but the diehard property partygoers all knew they were at the Dalgleish “do”.
* Vodafone’s Yoda ads might be all over the London Underground, but in Spain the telecoms giant has gone a step further — signing a deal to sponsor a whole line of Madrid’s Metro.
Line 2 (which is, of course, the red one) will be renamed Vodafone, and the central railway station Sol will from now on be called Vodafone Sol.
Let’s hope the three-year deal brings some cheer for the company in Spain. It certainly needs it — last November tough conditions forced Vodafone to take a combined £5.9 billion writedown on its businesses there and in Italy.
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Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD today said that Dell will be introducing entertainment PCs that are based on Live platform. Dell does not offer the Competing Intel Viiv platform in its PCs at this time, which could provide with a very unique positioning within the Dell lineup.
Entertainment PCs aren’t quite the success that was envisioned by many companies in the PC industry, at least not yet. But devices that interact with home entertainment center, whether they come in sleek set top box design or in the form factor of more traditional PCs are gaining traction as homes become more networked, more content is available and prices of these PCs are reaching deep into the levels of mainstream and entry-level systems.
Dell is one of the more quiet contenders in this field. While the company has been offering multimedia-capable Windows MCE-based computers under its Dimension and XPS brands for some time, there aren’t any fine-tuned entertainment center PCs based, for example, on Intel’s Viiv platform in the firm’s portfolio. This scenario, however, changes as Dell and its subsidiary Alienware will begin offering AMD Live PCs, according to an announcement made by AMD today.
Live has not made it to Dell’s website yet, but Alienware today announced the “”DHS high-definition”” media center, which integrates a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 CPU, a home theater amplifier from D2Audio Corporation, and Nvidia Nforce430/Geforce 6150 graphics. Alienware previously used Intel Pentium 4 600-series processors in its $1000 DHS 2 set-top box.
AMD also announced that it has expanded the Live suite with new applications, including voice and video communications over the Internet, games from Wild Tangent, and a web browser that is designed to appeal to children.


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P&G introduces plastic-free paper tubes for Secret & Old Spice
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Procter & Gamble Beauty has introduced new all-paper, plastic-free dispensing tubes for Secret and Old Spice deodorants, eliminating the traditional plastic push-up components. The new packaging will be available in May at 500 Walmart stores in the US.
The paper tube package is made of 90% recycled paper that contains no wax, plastics, BPA, or PFA. New paper fiber is used to make the post-consumer recycled paperboard stronger at the base.
Freddy Bharucha, Vice President of Personal Care in the P&G beauty division, says, “We co-designed this package with consumers who are interested in cutting back on plastic waste. The majority of Gen Z consumers have high expectations for environmentally friendly products.”
Earlier this year, P&G reduced the amount of plastic in the conventional Secret deodorant container.
“Consumption of our products is not likely to dissipate,” CEO David Taylor said. “We will serve what will likely become a forever-altered health, hygiene and cleaning focus for consumers.”
Speaking on behalf of Walmart, Jason Kloster, Senior Buying Manager, Body Care & Grooming, says this: “Walmart is steadfast in its commitment to transform retail in the interest of environmental sustainability. As the largest retailer in the world partnering with the largest deodorant and antiperspirant brands in the US, we know this new paperboard package has the potential to have a a significant positive impact and lay the groundwork for even broader impact.”
Anitra Marsh, Associate Director of Global Sustainability and Brand Communications, P&G Beauty, added, “If we convert just 10% of our current deodorant packages to recycled paper or another recyclable material, it could eliminate up to 1.5 million pounds of plastic waste annually. This is just one example of how we are trying to make a difference and build a more sustainable future.”
By 2030, P&G Beauty’s brands have committed to using 100 percent recyclable or reusable packaging while reducing the use of virgin petroleum plastic by 50 percent. By 2025, Walmart says it will send zero waste to landfill for its operations in the US, UK, Canada, and Japan.
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The two companies announced the deal on Wednesday, but did not disclose the terms of the transaction. The deal is expected to close next year. FreshDirect will retain its name and continue to operate out of New York City, where it was launched in 2002.
Ahold Delhaize (, born in 2016 from the merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group, is one of the largest grocery operators in the United States. He said FreshDirect would help him reach new customers and drive sales in the lucrative New York market. FreshDirect said having access to the size and scale of the Dutch company would allow it to grow. )
“Ahold is determined to get bigger to compete with heavyweights like Amazone ( and )Walmart (“Wrote Jon Springer, editor of Winsight Grocery Business, an industry publication,” FreshDirect gets a parent with real purchasing power and the means to expand further into the East Coast markets. )
The deal comes at a time when the pandemic has reshaped the grocery industry.
Ahold’s U.S. sales at stores open for at least a year were up 12.4%, excluding gasoline, in its most recent quarter compared to the same period last year, the company said earlier this this month. Online sales increased 114.7%. The company said the growth was “largely due to the COVID-19 outbreak”.
Online grocery shopping had been slower to grow in the United States than purchasing electronics, clothing and other goods, but the coronavirus has sparked a surge in new customers, with shoppers seeking to limit their trips to physical stores.
“Covid was kind of a wake-up call for us,” Natalie Knight, Ahold’s chief financial officer, told the Wall Street Journal in August.
Traditional grocers and online delivery services have struggled to keep pace with demand, resulting in canceled orders and long delays for customers.
FreshDirect was unable to handle the flood of orders from existing customers and buyers when the pandemic first hit, CEO David McInerney told CNN Business in an interview last month.
“The barriers to online grocery shopping were completely removed” in March, he said. “We couldn’t stand” the high demand. The company’s systems were overwhelmed as people bought two to three times as much per order than they usually did, buying for a longer period than usual, and placing orders for friends and relatives.
Fresh Direct forecast a busy winter with rising coronavirus cases. He got holiday items, such as canned pumpkin, baking supplies, and spices earlier than usual this year, and is storing larger amounts of them in warehouses.
“We’re expecting a really busy winter, and there are going to be a lot of new customers getting used to buying groceries online,” McInerney said last month. “The colder weather will only push this forward. “


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Fashionista alert: Joseph Gualtiere, founder and editor of the new online magazine UpTempo, has posted some fun behind-the-scenes pics from his photo shoot with our own Nadine Sierra on Facebook.
How about a sneak peak?
|Nadine Sierra gets glam for the photo shoot!|
|Nadine Sierra testing out the seats in the Shubert Theatre during the photo shoot.|
UpTempo, which will focus on fashion and the performing arts, launches on April 21 with Nadine on the cover and a soiree at the Liberty, part of the hotel’s Fashionably Late series. Gowns from the recent BLO hit Agrippina will be featured, along with frocks from BSO’s popular Project Beethoven competition. The party, where Joseph promises dancers, singers, a red carpet, surprise guests and even an aerialist swinging above our heads (watch out!), kicks off at 8 p.m. and will go til’ last round. (The runway show starts at 10 p.m.). You know we’ll be in the front row!
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The Malaysian government revealed yesterday that it is banning the export of all poultry in the country as it investigates illegal cartel activity controlling the price and shipment of its produce.
Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has said Malaysia will halt exports of 3.6 million chickens per month from June 1, to investigate allegations of cartel pricing.
The Malaysian Competition Commission is investigating reports that Ismail is promising to crack down on any company found guilty of procurement sabotage.
“If it is true that these cartels exist, we will take legal action against them.”
The country’s national news agency, Bernama, reported that there was a shortage of poultry locally as the cartels had planned to shut down farming operations over the weekend.
The Minister for Agriculture and Food Industries met with 12 growers and herder groups following a Cabinet meeting which discussed the ban.
The move is expected to hit Singapore hard, which sources one-third from Malaysia, as well as Thailand, Brunei, Japan and Hong Kong.
The ban is the latest in a series of protectionist measures as nations around the world grapple with rising food prices. Indonesia recently banned palm oil exports, India restricted wheat exports, and Serbia and Kazakhstan both imposed quotas on grain shipments.
Singapore’s Food Agency said the restriction could lead to temporary disruptions in the supply of chilled chicken in the city-state and urged consumers to be open to switching to frozen chicken or other meat products. Singapore revealed that around 34% of its chicken imports came from Malaysia last year, with almost all of it imported as live chickens.
Selena Ling, head of research and treasury strategy at OCBC Bank in Singapore, said the city-state could manage if the chicken supply disruption was temporary.
“But if it’s persistent and more worrying, reflecting more protectionist measures taken by other countries on food security and inflation concerns, then it could be a lose-lose scenario for everyone.”
In 2020, Malaysia exported poultry meat worth $18.9 million, making it the world’s 49th largest exporter of this product.
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In a positive sign that small businesses are getting a handle on their debt, delinquency rates among Tennessee small business loans declined over the twelve months ending November 2013, according to recent data from PayNet and Thomson Reuters' Small Business Delinquency Index.
Of all the small-business loans made in Tennessee, delinquencies of 31 to 90 days fell from 1.57 percent in December 2012 to 1.02 percent in November 2013, according to the data.
The largest delinquency rate decline was in the transportation sector. Construction posted the only delinquency rate increase for small business loans among industries.
Here is a breakdown of statewide 31 to 90 day delinquencies by sector:
Agriculture: 0.53 percent in December 2012; 0.48 percent in November 2013
Construction: 1.74 percent in December 2012; 1.94 percent in November 2013
General: 1.67 percent in Dec. 2012; 0.95 percent in November 2013
Health care: 1.12 percent in Dec. 2012; 1.02 percent in November 2013
Retail: 0.97 percent in December 2012; 0.77 percent in November 2013
Transportation: 3.47 percent in December 2012; 1.07 percent in November 2013
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If fewer people begin to accept Bitcoin as a currency, these digital units may lose value and could become worthless. There is already plenty of competition, and though Bitcoin has a huge lead over the other 100-odd digital currencies that have sprung up, thanks to its brand recognition and venture capital money, a technological break-through in the form of a better virtual coin is always a threat.
In exchange for securing the network, and as the “lottery price” that serves as an incentive for burning this energy, each new block includes a special transaction. It’s this transaction that awards the miner with new bitcoins, which is how bitcoins first come into circulation. At Bitcoin’s launch, each new block awarded the miner with 50 bitcoins, and this amount halves every four years: Currently each block includes 12.5 new bitcoins. Additionally, miners get to keep any mining fees that were attached to the transactions they included in their blocks.
According to The New York Times, libertarians and anarchists were attracted to the idea. Early bitcoin supporter Roger Ver said: "At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state." The Economist describes bitcoin as "a techno-anarchist project to create an online version of cash, a way for people to transact without the possibility of interference from malicious governments or banks".
This is particularly problematic once you remember that all Bitcoin transactions are permanent and irreversible. It's like dealing with cash: Any transaction carried out with bitcoins can only be reversed if the person who has received them refunds them. There is no third party or a payment processor, as in the case of a debit or credit card – hence, no source of protection or appeal if there is a problem.
Barely perceptible in the early years after bitcoin was launched in 2009, these adjustments quickly ramped up. By the time Carlson started mining in 2012, difficulty was tripling every year. Carlson’s fat profit margin quickly vanished. He briefly quit, but the possibility of a large-scale mine was simply too tantalizing. Around the world, some people were still mining bitcoin. And while Carlson suspected that many of these stalwarts were probably doing so irrationally—like gamblers doubling down after a loss—others had found a way to making mining pay.
Client-side encryption means all of your data is encrypted on your device before any of your information touches the servers. Once your account and everything in it has been encrypted, we automatically back it up. We can’t access your assets or any other information in any usable form but if anything happens to your device, you can just download the Edge app on a new device, enter your username and password and your assets are right where you left them.
Bitcoin is the world’s first cryptocurrency. It is a purely peer-to-peer electronic cash system that allows online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. The Bitcoin system is the most widely accepted cryptocurrency system at present. However, due to its initial setting, such as block size and block time, its performance is limited to less than 10 transactions per second.
It is conceivable that an ASIC device purchased today would still be mining in two years if the device is power efficient enough and the cost of electricity does not exceed it's output. Mining profitability is also dictated by the exchange rate, but under all circumstances the more power efficient the mining device, the more profitable it is. If you want to try your luck at bitcoin mining then this Bitcoin miner is probably the best deal.
Early Bitcoin client versions allowed users to use their CPUs to mine. The advent of GPU mining made CPU mining financially unwise as the hashrate of the network grew to such a degree that the amount of bitcoins produced by CPU mining became lower than the cost of power to operate a CPU. The option was therefore removed from the core Bitcoin client's user interface.
The proof-of-work system, alongside the chaining of blocks, makes modifications of the blockchain extremely hard, as an attacker must modify all subsequent blocks in order for the modifications of one block to be accepted. As new blocks are mined all the time, the difficulty of modifying a block increases as time passes and the number of subsequent blocks (also called confirmations of the given block) increases.
Bitcoin mining is the process by which transactions are verified and added to the public ledger, known as the block chain, and also the means through which new bitcoin are released. Anyone with access to the internet and suitable hardware can participate in mining. The mining process involves compiling recent transactions into blocks and trying to solve a computationally difficult puzzle. The participant who first solves the puzzle gets to place the next block on the block chain and claim the rewards. The rewards, which incentivize mining, are both the transaction fees associated with the transactions compiled in the block as well as newly released bitcoin. (Related: How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?)
The Bitcoin mining network difficulty is the measure of how difficult it is to find a new block compared to the easiest it can ever be. It is recalculated every 2016 blocks to a value such that the previous 2016 blocks would have been generated in exactly two weeks had everyone been mining at this difficulty. This will yield, on average, one block every ten minutes.
Competing ASIC maker BitFury has also started seeking profit from nonmining industries. “While we began as just a mining company back in 2011, our company has significantly expanded its reach since then,” says CEO Vavilov. Among other things, BitFury is now providing its immersion cooling technology to high-performance data centers that are not involved in Bitcoin.
Exchanges, however, are a different story. Perhaps the most notable Bitcoin exchange hack was the Tokyo-based MtGox hack in 2014, where 850,000 bitcoins with a value of over $350 million suddenly disappeared from the platform. This doesn’t mean that Bitcoin itself was hacked; it just means that the exchange platform was hacked. Imagine a bank in Iowa is robbed: the USD didn’t get robbed, the bank did.
Bitcoin has become more widely traded as of 2017, and both short term traders and long-term investors are looking to participate in this exciting market. The price of bitcoin fluctuates on a daily basis, and can see some significant price volatility. Prices can be affected by numerous influences. Some of the possible drivers of price include: further acceptance, more exchanges opening, regulations, weakening paper currency values, inflation and more.
The concept of a virtual currency is still novel and, compared to traditional investments, Bitcoin doesn't have much of a longterm track record or history of credibility to back it. With their increasing use, bitcoins are becoming less experimental every day, of course; still, after eight years, they (like all digital currencies) remain in a development phase, still evolving. "It is pretty much the highest-risk, highest-return investment that you can possibly make,” says Barry Silbert, CEO of Digital Currency Group, which builds and invests in Bitcoin and blockchain companies.
In 2014 prices started at $770 and fell to $314 for the year. In February 2014 the Mt. Gox exchange, the largest bitcoin exchange at the time, said that 850,000 bitcoins had been stolen from its customers, amounting to almost $500 million. Bitcoin's price fell by almost half, from $867 to $439 (a 49% drop). Prices remained low until late 2016.


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India may be Asia’s fastest-growing smartphone market, but shipments slowed down last quarter for the first time. According to IDC, the quarter-over-quarter lag was caused by a surplus of inventory left over after India’s festive season in October and November.
During Q4 2014, smartphone shipments fell four percent quarter-over-quarter, but fared better than featurephones, which dropped by 14 percent. Shipments of featurephones began declining in 2013 as more Indian consumers nixed them in favor of inexpensive Android smartphones from Samsung and Micromax.
As IDC’s latest numbers show, featurephones are continuing a slow but gradual slide into oblivion. The firm found that smartphones accounted for 35 percent of all mobile phones shipped in Q4 2014, a considerable increase from 13 percent a year ago.
IDC says smartphone shipments to India will continue to be slow in Q1 2015 as vendors sell off their remaining inventory.
Vendors who have prepared 4G smartphones, however, may fare better because telecoms are preparing to debut 4G LTE service. Users who are tired of unreliable 3G connections will be eager to snatch up 4G devices and data plans as soon as they are available. Manufacturers that might benefit include China’s Xiaomi and Huawei, which have already launched inexpensive 4G smartphones in India.
In terms of how individual companies performed in Q4 2014, Samsung managed to hold on to its lead with a 22 percent vendor share, even though its overall market share is declining thanks to heavy competition from the iPhone as well as other Android smartphone makers. Micromax took the number two spot with an 18 percent share. Intex came in third with 8 percent, while Lava took 7 percent and Xiaomi 4 percent.


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Milk is a good thing and we should drink more of it. This has been a prominent health message ever since the 1946 Education Act ensured that school children were given free milk. But in recent years, the debate has shifted to which type of milk is best. This week, it took an unexpected turn when researchers claimed that it might pay to note what the weather was doing when the milk was produced. A study, published in this month's Journal of Dairy Science and led by researchers at Newcastle University, showed that "wetter, cooler summers can have a detrimental effect on the milk we drink". A poor summer meant that milk had a "significantly higher saturated fat content and far less beneficial fatty acids" compared to that produced in a regular year.
It also claimed that organic milk contains higher levels of beneficial fatty acids compared with "normal" milk, "regardless of the time of year or weather conditions". Organic milk also had "30-50%" less saturated fats than non-organic milk.
In response, the Department of Health said that "the types of omega-3 fatty acids in organic milk are different to those found in oily fish. It is the omega-3 fatty acids in oily fish which have been shown to be beneficial in terms of heart disease." It added that, in our overall diet, "lower fat options" should be selected whenever possible – "for example, 1% milk"; the red-top skimmed variety.
Milk evokes passionate responses, though, and there are those who swear by full-fat unpasterisued "raw" milk. This is very hard to source as it can legally only be sold by the farmer direct to consumers with a label stating that it "may contain organisms harmful to health". But its advocates say that pasteurisation strips milk of much of its nutritional benefits.
Some think we've got it all wrong by choosing to drink cow's milk. Far better, they say, is donkey milk – which was widely sold in the UK until the end of the 19th century – for it contains more protein and less fat.
So, here's what should be on your shopping list perhaps: "1 pint of organic, unpasteurised donkey milk collected during a 'normal' summer." Good luck trying to source it, though.