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The Mastercard strategy shows the vagaries of entering the Chinese market, as the report noted that China has “largely ignored” a World Trade Organization finding that there has been discrimination against foreign credit card companies. China has said it would give access to card clearing services, but, stated the WSJ, firms have been trying to come into the market for years.

The company expects total capital investment (excluding acquisitions) in the range of $615-$665 million. The mid-point of the guidance is 39% lower than 2018 capital spending. Notably, 80% of the capital spending is expected to be allotted toward the Permian Basin. Additionally, the company intends to reach cash flow neutrality during this year.

The risk if this approach fails is much bigger than one man losing his difficult position. In early skirmishes with the intelligence community, Trump liked to point out how they got it wrong on weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. This does show that intelligence can be fallible, and dangerously so. But the political pressure on information-gathering that characterized that moment—when policy makers made clear their preference that analysts should try to find evidence that Iraq had such weapons—also holds a different lesson: When intelligence becomes politicized, the results can be deeply harmful to national security.

Had it gone ahead, the product would have generated hefty fees. The draft stipulates a one-off establishment fee of $15,000 and annual fees of $20,000 for the vehicle, an indication of how sought-after such services are. And not just for tax reasons. A desire for privacy isn’t unreasonable, wealth advisers say. Confidential accounts may protect against kidnappings or extortion in countries where law and order is tenuous.

Consequently the supplemental dividend amount this quarter is reduced to $0.12 per share to ensure the NAV decline is constrained to no more than $0.15. As this quarter illustrates during periods of market volatility that result in downward pressure on portfolio evaluations and unrealized losses, our supplemental dividend framework helps stabilize NAV and retains additional capital for us to utilize in more attractive reinvestment environment.

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So based on the timing of the spend versus cash outflow we will see an outsized amount hit this year. Overall, we should see a majority of the $20 million replacement CAPEX impact revert back in 2020. Turnarounds are critical to the success of our operations, our plant uptime in general, and are essential, given our low-cost position and ability to run our plants at disproportionately higher utilization rates.Now let's flip to Slide 9. Now, before turning to Q&A, we'd like to recap our outlook for 2019.

We are pleased to have published our inaugural sustainability report in November, sharing our commitment in this arena and the many ongoing initiatives at AdvanSix. Reinvestment in the business continues as we execute on our high-return growth and cost savings capital project pipelines. The first two projects initiated in 2018 to further enhance our advantage integrated value chain are on track, and we've -- as we commission these projects into service, we expect to start seeing benefits in the back half of 2019. Cash flow generation this year has been a consistent and positive outcome of our focused efforts.

As we saw in 2018, connected TV in China is crucial to reaching consumers at scale and with emotional impact. Western companies need to move fast to capitalize on this development. We recently signed partnerships with Tencent Social Ads, Baidu Exchange Services and Alibaba’s video streaming service, Youku to help global marketers reach Chinese consumers through display, mobile, video and native advertising campaigns.

“They are foolish and will lose money if they do not buy [our products],” Ren told a China Central Television reporter who asked for his view on the bans some countries have slapped on Huawei equipment.

"I know that some players have gone down south young and it hasn’t worked out, so being here just now is the best place for me. I just want to keep doing what I have been and keep playing well.”

In December this year we have the maturity of our $115 million convertible notes. Given the significant available liquidity and low marginal cost of funding under our revolving credit facility, our base case is to refinance our 2019 notes using our revolver. However should conditions in the debt capital markets become more favorable than they are today, we would look to issue new unsecured notes.