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- - - - Russia- a ban on the importation of nearly all U.S.and most European food products since August 2014 in response to Ukraine-related sanctions. Specifically, Russia imposed a ban on imports of certain agricultural and food products originating from the United States, European Union, Canada, Australia, and Norway.
  - - - The Federal Reserve dropped the fed funds rate half a point to 3.0 percent.
        The stock market closed for four trading days after the attacks
        Almost 18,000 small businesses were shut down or destroyed.
        Gas and oil prices also shot upward as fears emerged that oil imports from the Middle East would be curtailed
  - - - Ukraine had conflicts and protests against Russia leading to instability of the country. This led the country to suffer from capital flight, with FDI intensity declining from 4.5% of total GDP in 2012 to 2.1% in 2013;
  - - - One of the world’s largest electrical engineering companies bribed Argentine government officials to win government and organized a global system of corruption to gain market share and increase its price.
  - - - Yu worked for ADI designing and developing parts of monolithic microwave integrated circuits. Yu had access to data and information relating to the present and future product designs, and downloaded hundreds of highly confidential schematic design files that belonged to ADI in his personal account.
        In March 2017, Yu and his wife established Tricon MMIC LLC, and sold 20 of the documents that originally belonged to ADI.
  - - - Jeffrey Greenstein, President of International Sales and Distribution at the independent studio Millennium Films / Nu Image, shared with the committee how Expendables 3 was stolen and leaked to pirates three weeks before its release. The movie has since been downloaded illegally 40 million times just on Bit Torrent sites and a reasonable total estimate is 70 million illegal views.
- - - - Due to harsh cross border traffic, truck wait times have already risen by 500%, and many businesses along the border saw an immediate impact to their sales and operations.
        Kimberly Rosas, an employee at JR Trading, a small retail store in El Paso, said she sees about half the usual number of clients.
  - - - The pound sank to a 28-month low against the dollar as Boris Johnson's government toughened its rhetoric on Brexit.
        Sterling dipped 1.1% to $1.2242 and €1.1004 respectively.
        ING Group assumes that the pound will sink as low as €1.05 and $1.18.
  - - - India has been urging its long time ally Russia to take into account the interest of energy consuming nations during its engagement with the OPEC. It conveyed expectation that Russia can play an important role in balancing global oil market.
  - - - Japan suddenly put a trade restriction on chemicals needed by manufacturers of memory chips. This increased the demand of these chemical in South Korea and had resulted in the start of the research of the replacement of Japanese chemicals to the country's own chemicals
  - - - In 2012, almost half the country's 1.2 billion people and hundreds of thousands of businesses and various essential service providers were left without power after India's northern and eastern grids broke down. This is due to the shortage of resources such as coal. According to various estimates, India's power generation meets only 90% of total demand.
- - - - Hurricane Dorian led to closure of schools and state government offices across eight coastal South Carolina countries. In 2012, Superstorm Sandy caused $65 billion worth of damage in the U.S. and Hurricane Katrina caused a whopping $150 billion.
  - - - The West African Ebola outbreak is estimated to have knocked more than US$2 billion off the GDPs of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This was mainly due to a slowdown in private sector investment, reduced agricultural production and cross-border trade, and travel restrictions.
  - - - The March 11, 2011, earthquake with an epicenter near Tohoku destroyed more than 120,000 buildings and, according to Japan’s Reconstruction Agency, caused an estimated $199 billion dollars of damage, making it the most expensive natural disaster in world history.
- - - - London faced transport chaos after the U.K. was hit by a power outage during the Friday evening, with trains and traffic lights disrupted across the capital and the southeast of England. More than 800,000 customers were affected by the disruption.
  - - - Advanced Persistent Threat 41 (APT41), a team of Chinese hackers, targeted major global telecoms companies and their subsidiaries for call record information and stole sensitive intellectual property from medical device and pharmaceutical companies