India to impose retaliatory tariff on 28 U.S. goods from Sunday: government statement
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will impose higher tariffs on 28 U.S. products including almonds, apples and walnuts, a government notification said.
The new duties take effect from Sunday.
Reuters had previously reported that India was preparing to levy higher tariffs following Washington’s withdrawal of key trade privileges for New Delhi.
India initially issued an order in June last year to raise import taxes as high as 120% on a slew of U.S. items, incensed by Washington’s refusal to exempt it from higher steel and aluminum tariffs.
But New Delhi repeatedly delayed raising tariffs as the two nations engaged in trade talks. Trade between them stood at about $142.1 billion in 2018.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-india/india-to-impose-retaliatory-tariff-on-28-u-s-goods-from-sunday-government-statement-idUSKCN1TG0H0?
keep trying anjel…GLOWING hard
Facebook wants to pay you for your data — read this before you sign up
Some privacy experts have sounded the alarm over Study, the company’s latest foray into ‘market research’
Facebook wants to pay users to fork over their data, but privacy experts say the risks could outweigh the potential financial benefits.
The social-media giant this week announced Study, a “market research program” that will compensate willing users of Android, Google’s
operating system, in exchange for information about their phone-app use. Eligible Study participants must be 18 or older at the launch of the program and can opt out whenever they want to, the company said.
Users will be paid a flat monthly rate through their connected PayPal account. A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment on exactly how much money users could make, and declined to provide information about the program beyond what was posted on Facebook’s website.
That app will collect a “minimum amount of information,” Facebook said, including which apps are installed on a person’s phone; how much time they spend using those apps; a participant’s country, network type and device; and potentially, which app features participants use.
Insights gleaned from the program, Facebook said, will help the company “learn which apps people value and how they’re used” and “build better products for the Facebook community.”
But some privacy experts and tech journalists are sounding the alarm over the company’s latest foray into “market research.”
Facebook’s track record with personal data is less than stellar
“We need more transparency from Facebook, and they have to go a lot of extra miles to prove that we can trust them because of their track record now,” said Pam Dixon, the executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a public interest research group. “Here’s the question: How much do you trust Facebook with your information?”
For starters, Dixon questioned whether any kind of independent review board had evaluated the Study program for its ethical and legal implications, and what standards the company had used to determine those. She urged Facebook to be transparent with that information.
A TechCrunch report earlier this year revealed that Facebook had paid users aged 13 to 35 up to $20 a month since 2016 in exchange for installing a “Facebook Research” app, which had harvested data on their web and phone activity. Apple AAPL, -0.73% yanked the app over a policy violation; meanwhile, a Facebook spokesperson maintained that “key facts about this market research program are being ignored” and that it hadn’t involved any secrecy or “spying.”
The company has also faced scrutiny over multiple data-centric scandals, including the revelation last year that the U.K. data firm Cambridge Analytica could have improperly harvested up to 87 million Facebook users’ personal information. In March, CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed to build a “privacy-focused” platform in the future.
Facebook contends that it’s committed to transparency
good luck with 'dat
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-get-paid-for-sharing-your-data-with-facebook-read-this-first-2019-06-14
Murdoch Bought 600,000 Fox Shares Then Sold and Bought Them Back
Rupert Murdoch bought $21.2 million of Fox Corp. shares Friday, and this time it seems the billionaire meant to do so.
Fox’s co-chairman issued the third in a string of SEC filings at the end of the working week, confirming he had bought 600,000 shares in the media company he controls. The filing came just five days after an earlier notice saying he had sold the same quantity of shares that had been bought in error the previous week.
Murdoch originally bought the 600,000 additional shares for an average price of $34.27 on June 5, 6 and 7, according to an SEC filing. But the same form also disclosed that the shares had been sold a few days later for $34.04.
“The subject shares have been purchased in error, which purchase has been deemed inadvertent and the subject shares were promptly sold,” the filing said.
“Any short swing profit resulting from the erroneous purchase and subsequent sale will be returned to the Issuer.”
In other words you got caught.
Four days later he purchased another block of shares of the same size at a price of $35.29, without any additional explanation. Representatives for Fox didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.
https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2019-06-15/murdoch-bought-600-000-fox-shares-then-sold-and-bought-them-back
Here is the one purchased in 'error'.
http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FilingID=13485211&RcvdDate=6/10/2019&CoName=FOX%20CORP&FormType=4&View=html
backup to 'error'-filed last night.
http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FilingID=13493436&RcvdDate=6/14/2019&CoName=FOX%20CORP&FormType=4&View=html
once we extract all the shares from them I'm sure they will be.
>Operation Thunderball
>>6758064 Salvini receives go-ahead to begin restricting migrant transport NGOs in Italy
notable
from yesterday, not sure if notable then
gateway pundit sucks ass
United Airlines passenger jet skids off runway at Newark airport
A United Airlines passenger jet skidded off a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday, shutting down service for the New Jersey transportation hub, officials said.
There was no immediate word of any injuries.
Port Authority Police Department cops and Emergency Service Unit teams were sent to the airport following reports that the plane had veered off the runway at about 1:30 p.m. Port Authority did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The airport was immediately shut down. “Due to an airport emergency there are currently no arrivals nor departures from Newark Airport,” Newark Liberty tweeted. “Please check with your carrier before coming to the airport.”
A photo of the scene shared with The News shows the airplane stopped at an angle on the runway with its nose over a grassy median.
Early reports said the plane may have blown a tire when it landed, causing it to veer off the runway.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-untied-airlines-passenger-jet-skids-off-runway-newark-airport-20190615-mc7j5fij4bd5pgr6o564mzcogi-story.html