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President Donald Trump has announced a trade deal with Vietnam that imposes a 20% tariff on Vietnamese exports to the U.S. and a 40% tariff on goods transshipped through Vietnam, particularly targeting Chinese products rerouted to avoid U.S. tariffs. What Happened: In exchange, Vietnam will grant...

Los Angeles-based livestream commerce company talkshoplive (TSL) announced Thursday the completion of a $6 million seed extension, bringing the fast-growing startup to $10.5 million raised in total. The new round of funding was led by Raine Group, the venture capital arm of TMT-focused venture...

Headless commerce company Shogun has raised $67.5 million in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors Initialized Capital, Accel and VMG Partners also participated. The new funding round brings total funding in the startup to $114.5 million. Headless commerce refers to...

Delano Saporu recommended Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) on CNBC’s “Fast Money Final Trades” on Monday morning. Square’s stock reversed course and headed 30% north after creating a double bottom pattern on May 13 and 19 at the $192 mark. On Monday the stock was printing a bullish...

This week's DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 75 (Carriers) Last week's DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 70 (Carriers)  Three-month DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 70 (Carriers) The DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics and data in FreightWaves SONAR to...

This article was originally published on Hoban Law Group, and appears here with permission. In a recent article, Bob Hoban observed that cannabis commerce can be divided among 4 commercial lanes Recreational cannabis High-end “craft” strains Mass-marketed generic products...

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) has been consistent in its views of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) becoming a threat to FedEx's delivery business. To wit, a delivery startup like Amazon can't compete with FedEx's network, technologies and portfolio built up over nearly 50 years and...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Federal Reserve said it was expecting to increase interest rates before the end of 2015. However, as the year draws to a close, many analysts are beginning to push their predictions for a rate hike into next year. Economic data from the United States has been soft...