Reuters
North Korean state-run companies have begun hoarding molybdenum ore, causing the price of the high-tech industrial input to spike in a move that suggests that trade with China could resume soon, sources in the country told RFA.
Since January 2020, Beijing and Pyongyang closed their 880-mile border and suspended all trade to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The move has had disastrous effects for the North Korean economy, especially for those industries that rely on trade with China for raw materials or as a market to sell goods.
Molybdenum is a rare-earth metal with a very small yield that is essential for the manufacture of alloy steel and is used for its electromagnetic and heat-resistant properties in the semiconductor, precision machinery, high-speed train, and aviation industries. North Korea’s supply of molybdenum ore has been off-limits to China during the pandemic.
French police dismantle Burgundy wine theft ring
16 March 2021 By Phoebe French
Police in France have recovered over 1,000 bottles of stolen wine and arrested 10 people in connection with two separate burglaries at estates in Burgundy last year.
In a joint operation, 60 police officers from three different regions carried out searches in Lyon and Toulouse at the end of last month, it has been reported.
In raids carried out on the night of 24 February, authorities arrested 10 people and recovered some 1,160 bottles of wine, thought to have been taken during two separate thefts in July and October 2020.
The bottles, which included nine magnums, were part of the haul taken from Domaine Philippe Chavy in Puligny-Montrachet in July last year.
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By Molly Hop-16 March 2021 11:00am
Up until recently, marketers have considered commerce to be an additional ad placement platform. However, commerce is a seller’s world and in order to win, you need to think like a seller – someone who is analyzing how every next move could potentially sell an actual product off your digital shelf. Molly Hop from Publicis Commerce explains.
From conversion rates (CVR) to cost-per-click (CPC), we’ve been swimming in measurement-related acronym soup for years. However, with commerce still being relatively new, the industry has essentially turned to what’s available and relatively easy: return on ad spend (ROAS). While it does have its merit, ROAS was created at a time when you couldn’t correlate ad exposure to an actual sale, so this was the proxy that the industry used. Through a fairly simple mathematical formula (ROAS = Return/Advertising Costs), ROAS was the best way for our industry to understand what was working, and