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And then there are the internet companies who will carry the burden of ensuring taxes are properly collected. When a marketplace provider tax was proposed in 2017, companies including eBay launched an opposition campaign asking its New York customers to protest the measure.

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Last June, however, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling took internet sales taxes even further. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Supreme Court determined that states may collect taxes on internet sales even when the purchases are made from out-of-state retailers. New York issued a notice last month that the state tax laws would now reflect the new standard set by the Supreme Court ruling. Now, businesses are responsible for collecting and remitting sales taxes for online transactions even if they don’t have an in-state presence – but only if the business has made more than $300,000 in sales of tangible personal property and 100 sales of tangible personal property delivered in the state in the past four sales tax quarters. In other words, a fledgling mom-and-pop retail website that makes only $50,000 a year in sales in New York wouldn’t be required to collect sales tax on its transactions.

The company lost $143 million during the quarter, but that was less than investors expected. The company also posted $576 million in sales, a 40% increase from the same period a year ago.

From a demand perspective, there were several industry turnarounds over the last several months occurring in the MMA or the methyl methacylate space. As MMA is the second largest end use for acetone globally, this reduction in demand supported a continued lengthening of supply for acetone as we enter 2019. For the remainder of the chemical intermediates portfolio, we've seen tight supply conditions for phenol, particularly in the U.S. following competitor force majeure announcement.

What I would suspect is that in a time when there is -- in times when there is volatility, hopefully, our clients will value certainty in times where there is real credit issues opportunistic I think will be a bigger part of our book as long as we provided certainty to our sponsors because they are kind of correlated.

Semiconductor chips are the brains for just about anything with an on-and-off switch. Chips also happen to be the Achilles’ heel for China, making them a major battleground in a tech cold war. Despite several pushes in past decades to create its own semiconductor industry, China makes just 30% of the chips it needs, according to a report by Deloitte.

The coach worked with the 21-year-old at Eintracht Frankfurt, where the striker is currently on loan.

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And so you guys would be thinking about for you to create value for your underlying shareholders or LPs and private funds, you better be thinking about the value proposition as it relates to given where you are in the cost curve as it relates to the underlying reference credit risk premium.

Investors cheered signs of progress on the trade front as US and Chinese officials met in Washington to try and hash out a trade agreement ahead of a March 1 deadline.

The Spanish giants see the 19-year-old attacker as a replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo and have been trying to lure him away from the Primeira Liga side.