So good afternoon everyone. I hope you are all keeping safe and doing well. It's a pleasure to be part of this pitch CMO summit, and I would like to extend my thanks to Exchange for Media team for the invitation and also for this opportunity to share my views and learnings on the subject marketing in a data first world. But before I throw light on how Maruti Suzuki has embarked on this journey, I would like to share some facts and figures to establish how are we living in a data first world today? The International Data Corporation, the IDC predicted in 2018 that the world would generate 175 zeta bytes of data in 2025, up from 33 zeta bytes in 2018. That's a CAGR of 26 percent. Also, the famous British mathematician Clive Humby, first used the phrase in 2006, data is the new oil. He added a word of caution with it and saying, it is valuable, but if it is unrefined, it cannot really be used. So friends, data must be broken down, analyzed for it to have value, activities and strategies, and that benefit the business in several areas need to be planned by data-driven decision-making. Of course, followed by what the previous speaker said about gut. Ultimately, it is data-driven decision-making. In the same 2018 study by IDC, also noted that organizations that have invested trillions of dollars to modernize their business, 70 percent of these initiatives fail because they prioritize technology investments without building a data culture to support it. Therefore, for organizations to have a sustainable working model, it is essential to have both technological investments and supporting data culture. Looking at these facts, the first question that comes to mind is, how can an organization adapt or be ready for the data-first world? Organizations need to make data-driven decision-making the norm. Create a culture that encourages critical thinking and curiosity. Transforming how an organization takes decision may not be an easy task, but incorporating data and analytics in decision-making cycle will definitely lead to better decision-making. An organization realizes the full value of their data only when everyone, whether he's a business analyst or a sales manager or a human resource professional, he's empowered to make better decision with data every day. This complex system and business of today, decisions that are not well informed by data can turn out to be not just inconsistent, but also arbitrarily inaccurate as well. This happens not because of lack of intent or knowledge or skill, but because of assumptions or because of biases, because of habits. The recent advances in artificial intelligence, big data, control experimentation, and systems thinking are ushering in a radical evolution in decision-making. We at Marty Suzuki, being a leader in the automobile industry, have also taken some crucial steps to be ready for this domain. We understand that data-driven marketing is very important aspect to improve revenues for auto retailers. At Marty Suzuki, we have observed that customers follow a digital buying process, experiencing both physical interaction at the dealerships and also interact with our digital touchpoints. This brings in a huge opportunity at every touchpoint to not just know more about the customer, but also offer them a personalized experience using analytical tools and new technology solutions. For example, we have more than 6,000 assets in our digital ecosystem, comprising both of websites and also social media. We are utilizing a social media listening tool, the sprinkler across 4,000 plus social media pages for monitoring and listening purposes, and a digital software site core for content management and personalization capability on 2,000 plus websites. There are also multiple in-house systems, which we have deployed to empower the dealer partners for capturing offline data as well. Using all this platform, over the last few years, we at Marty Suzuki have been able to establish a data-first ecosystem that encompasses data from the customer across all interaction points, and allows flexibility to read through customer buying patterns and so on. Though having a huge data arrangement is not sufficient, it is very critical that we accurately harness the insights from the same on an ever-evolving basis to meet our end goals. Let me now take you through our journey to explain how we have evolved in our data-driven marketing approach. Our first step was to build our own first-party datasets. Friends, this is critical and looking at the future. What we understood was a third-party data will not be available to do marketing post the GDPR compliance once it's rolled out in India. One of the most important steps we have taken to take care of the first-party data in our existing dealer management system, which is the DMS. Using all the first-party data that is available with Marty Suzuki, we have created what we call SVOC, a single view of customer to understand customers' attributes and actions, helping to create more accurate segments and resolve their identity across different devices and identifiers. All of these add up to target effectively across marketing channels. We boarded a big data platform. It's called the CDP for managing our first-party data in 2019. To stitch its structure, first we adopted an integrated CRM system in 2018, created our own SVOC, which has got ingested into CDP for further unification with unstructured data like cookies for better targeting and higher marketing returns. Let me now talk a bit about our DMS. Our SVOC and CDP followed by some other innovations and projects. First, I'd like to talk about the dealer management system. Our dealer management system are designed not only to record customer transaction data. Remember, we have more than 2.2 crore consumers who have bought vehicles from us so far. But also to publish reports on daily, weekly, monthly basis which empower the on-ground dealer staff and our regional sales team to take customer first decision and analyze buying patterns both by geography and by demography. Using data analytics, we have developed a lead-scoring model which categorizes leads according to the probability to convert, and we are using about 22 data parameters for that. This helps our dealer sales executives to prioritize customer inquiries driving to higher conversions. By ingesting SVOC data with the DMS, we have also been able to create customer search and also upsell and cross-sell opportunities for the dealer. Dealer is now able to read through customers historical transactions thereby suggesting the next best product for them and to recommend additional purchases from allied businesses like insurance, service, extended warranty, and accessories. We are using an integration layer. It's called MuleSoft that helps in data transformation and enables usage of data across systems for announced customers experience. This is also important I feel because many organizations have legacy data, legacy systems, and so on of the biggest impediments to quickly transfer to a new system is actually the integration of the past data into the new one. This integration layer tool which we are using the MuleSoft is very important from our perspective. So single view of customer is the other thing which I spoke of and all our businesses, they had massive volumes of data recorded, but they were stored in silos, making it very difficult to see how a customer consumes our offerings. Single view of customer logic was developed to aggregate all transactions of a customer into a single record. Hence, making it possible to understand how a particular customer moves in this journey. For example, a customer who gets his car, service as a Maruti service station, renews his insurance through a Maruti insurance, buys accessories from Maruti Suzuki accessories website, can now be recognized as the same person, and can be suggested to download, for example, the Maruti Suzuki Rewards app, or enroll into a loyalty program to reap its benefits. Hence, further engaging, and I think the objective here is to more engagement, and also to improve the satisfaction levels. SVOC has made possible for us to understand a customer through its journey, and to understand their behavior when interacting with Maruti Suzuki. It also helps in data analytics, and developing machine learning models, with the help of which we can provide a much better experience to the consumers. So let me talk about customer data platform, but that's the key to the entire ecosystem which we have built in the last couple of years. Our customer data platform gets data ingested from offline as well as online sources like digital assets, all apps of Maruti Suzuki, dealer website, DMS, SVOC as I explained just a few minutes back. This data from all sources is unified in a master table, and further used to create customer segments for targeting and for personalization use cases on digital assets. This helps with media optimization as well, better spends on media monies, personalization opportunities, and of course the next best action for each of our consumer. As I mentioned earlier, Maruti Suzuki has a vast digital setup comprising of brand website as well as 2000 plus dealer websites as part of our hyper-local program. Now imagine the volumes of data that is being generated by these assets. Using CDP, we can map the journey of the customer from top of the funnel to the bottom, also vice versa, giving opportunity to target them with customized creatives. Additionally, using options like programmatic advertising on digital, which is primarily driven by customer actions and behaviors on the internet, there is a plethora of marketing solutions where these systems can be integrated with each other to drive new campaigns as well. So while Maruti Suzuki has been a pioneer in leading multiple industry-first initiative, I will now like to briefly talk about a few more data-driven projects that have been instrumental in our success. Here I would like to talk about first the marketing cloud. With the objective of putting our customers first through our marketing team, you utilize the integrated CRM for sending targeted multi-channel communications, including SMS, email, push notifications, and the Maruti Suzuki rewards app. The audience of communication campaigns are filtered from our database through analytical processes as well as business experience, so that the right customer gets the right information at the right time. With the help of our database, we can find the customers who are most likely to avail of the benefits of our offering, like the Maruti Suzuki driving school, the MSDS. It's a scheme to target young adults to promote safe driving habits amongst young generation, which also, while we also acquire them as prospects for new car sales, in that sense it's also a marketing tool. The content of the communication is carefully crafted to the preference of its audience along with the language of the message and the time at which it is sent to the customer. This helps us to engage consumers and improve customer satisfaction as well as CLV, the customer lifetime value. So we don't just send promotional content as some marketers do, but also we collect feedback through surveys and send alert communication. For example, in case of extreme weather or a natural disaster, we do send alerts to our customers so that their cars are both safe, thereby building a much closer relationship with our customers with the help of data-driven marketing communications. Another example is our loyalty program team conducts various communication campaigns to increase customer transactions and engagements. Objective of this campaigns is to increase transactions enrollments, referral inquiries, increasing engagements, and so on. In 2021-22, over 24,000 new cars referrals were generated through the marketing campaigns. In 2020-23, we are targeting to double this number. So let me now talk of ACRM or analytical CRM. That's a retention campaign to contact existing pool of customers in stage of their customer journey where they may consider buying an additional or a replacement car. To target this right set of customers in this campaign, a machine learning algorithm was developed, which learns from MSI's historical data, finds the set of customers who may be looking to buy an additional or replacement car. This campaign has been instrumental in generating over one lakh prospects in 2021-22 financial year with nearly 3 percent conversion to sales from our customer base. A very recent example which you may have read because I have spoken about it, there was a WagonR consumer who bought the WagonR in 2005. In our database in the DMS, we have all his record about his different transaction, his service visits, his even his family details, etc., etc. Very recently, our system, I mean it's not something that we track manually, but our algorithm suggested that his daughter might be graduating, and hence maybe a possibility of her buying a car. She studies in the, she did economics in this Matri College. Sure enough, we approached that consumer and he was very surprised. We were of course surprised ourselves when we first came to know, and that daughter of his has bought the new WagonR, which was launched just a few months back, three, four months back. Here's an example where in any other case, we would not have approached the customer, we didn't know it, but our database about the consumer threw up that possibility. That's one example which has helped us. It's part of the single view of customer that we have built our database. We have regional office campaigns as well. Several campaigns are carried out to communicate promotion offers on regional level. These campaigns are often specific to few models. Now as opposed to ACRM, which does not advertise any model or feature as per the requirement from regional office. So these campaigns also help us inform target customers of our latest cars and their features, while subtly prompting them to register an inquiry or book a test drive by simply clicking the link in the message and selecting appropriate action. We utilize personalized content that includes customer name and their preferred language to better connect with audience and improve open and click rates in such campaigns. In fact, we have a launch tomorrow of our SUV, the new Brezza and already through this campaign, we have so far got I think close to today morning, I was checking about 42,000 bookings already through this personalized campaign. So we hope by tomorrow we should touch around 50,000 bookings for our even before we launch the product. Other thing is a speech analytics. Speech analytics is an advanced analytic tool to analyze the recorded calls made by customers at corporate contact centers to provide us with actionable feedback on customer sentiments, identify performance and quality of our agents at different vendor parties, top reasons for calling, repeat calling, form rating based segments of agents, and deploy them in the right agencies and right queues in expanding the knowledge base. A very important thing which I think all of you must be aware of is what is called the net promoter score. NPS is now globally used market research metric surveyed with two questions to measure the likelihood of a consumer recommending a company, a product or a service to a friend or colleague after a business cycle. This questionnaire has a scale and an open-ended question. High-scoring customers are called promoters, as you all know, low-scorings are called detractors and middle-scorings ones are the passives. Now data from NPS is used to obtain a bird's-eye view about customers' perspective on a brand basis their interaction with a particular touch point and to provide direction for the business to work and improve. Internally, business use cases are analyzed in which correlation is drawn on the scores obtained and its impact on business, which helps us take decisions in the right direction. For example, promoters, which are the high-score customers, are more likely to purchase a Maruti vehicle post their driving school training than detractors. That's an interesting insight and we have seen our driving schools actually helping us, not just in terms of building our brand, but also building prospects for our future purchases. Now there are also a few projects which I like to mention here we are working on relating to artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions, which should enable us to strengthen our algorithms further. First is Suzuki Connect. Many of you would have probably experienced Suzuki Connect. It's something which is now used extensively in cars. It's a device which has got lots of sensor data coming about the car, and that car is transmitted to a cloud. On the cloud you have an analysis, which can be very helpful for many things. For example, you could have predictive analytics which enable the system to read through driver behavior patterns, thereby promoting road safety, safer environment for buyers. You could, for example, know how many times a person is accelerating or going too fast, or exceeding speed limits, how many times he's braking. So you could predict, for example, that in a normal car if the brakes are to be replaced after let's say 20,000 kilometers, there are some drivers who use the brakes so often, their brake pads have to be changed within 10,000 kilometers, because they brake so often. So if you know that, you can approach the customer, it's good for customer, because then he can be reasonably sure his brakes are in good condition, and sometimes our consumers are surprised when we tell them that your brakes have worn out, and that's because we know the usage of that vehicle through Suzuki Connect. There is a project we are doing on Rettina, and I think some of you may be familiar. It's a Rettina movement measurement. It's a functionality which will allow drowsiness detection to monitor the alertness of a driver. So while you are driving, there is a camera which monitors the Rettina movement, transmits the data to the cloud, and the algorithm tells us that so-and-so is driving in so-and-so place and is drowsy. So you can actually alert the driver that better to stop the car and rest for a while. But the drowsiness detection can be a very good potential for safety. Many of the accidents which happen is because the driver is drowsy. You may be knowing that of course. The third is capturing the mood of the customer. Now, this is interesting. While customers step into the showrooms, there is a AI-based solution. We are trying it in one of our showrooms. We are doing a POC. It will help us understand how they are browsing through the outlet using different signals and predict the likeliness of them buying a specific model. So today, we utilize this data to plan, to display location of car models in the showroom. It's a very exciting data to study because you can actually capture the mood of the customer. Sometimes the family walks in, you are monitoring their movement of AI. You have the mood board if I can call them for each. Then you realize that the decision-making is actually the wife. While the guy is asking the question, there is something in the body language which makes you make, which the algorithm throws up and says, listen, this guy is asking questions, but he's not the decision maker. Actually, the decision maker is the wife. Now, you may say decision-making is always the wife, but that may not be true always. We always believed in cars. It's the guy who asking the question who is making the decision. It could be the other way, of course. So that is being done. Sometimes you also know how much he wants to buy the car, which means that it gives you a negotiation when it comes to discount management. So it's a tool which dealers can use to know how much the consumer is looking quickly to finish the deal. Pricing engine for selling a car, selling your old car with Marty Suzuki true value is now becoming easier, but the day as customers can use the pricing engine to predict an estimated value of their old car. With this, we are able to bring in more competitive pricing, convenience, decision-making capabilities for the customers. And I would urge any of you who's wanting to upgrade from your old car to a new one, a new Marty car, of course. You can try this pricing engine. You can see how quickly and how accurately it comes to that pricing. Other examples of predictive analytics that we are working on are demand forecasting, consumer scheme optimization, voice boards on incoming customer calls, interactive chat boards and website and so on. Of course, Suzuki Connect, as you know, I'm using that Suzuki Connect. I told you it's a treasure of data. It can be utilized in many ways. I, for example, when I give my, I have two daughters. When my daughters take the car, I sometimes worry how fast they are driving. This is a, whether the fuel is enough if they are getting late at night or whatever. So I keep telling them, like my older daughter, I keep telling her, why are you driving so fast? And then, of course, they tell us that this is, listen, this goes against privacy because you are monitoring individual data. So I tell them, as most marketers do, that actually it's not an individual I'm monitoring. It is the cohort of daughters. Of course, I have two of them. This is the cohort of daughters, which I am monitoring. But I think I've not yet got a lawsuit of this me, but I continue to use, I'd say, great possibility for the monitoring of driving, not the lawsuit. I'm talking of the monitoring. The third is also something which we all need to plan, which is that while I've talked about all this thing but based largely on first-party data, there are other steps which we are taking in the direction to ensure that we are future ready. For example, getting active on second-party data types, tying up with various other first-party data providers like mobile service providers, financial institutions, two-wheeler companies, petroleum companies. We are working with them with the following checks. One, the checks are important. The second-party data provider has to implement the basics of constant management, like any good platform does, and also that there is a clear-cut mechanism for scaling up their data under regulatory guidelines. And I think it's important for all marketers here exploring the cookie-less world of addressability. And in addition to this first-party and the second-party data that I have just talked about, we are also exploring other substitutes which are like using third-party data, like the wall gardens, tying up with wall gardens like Facebook, with Amazon to use their first-party data. That is the data that they collect on their platform. And also contextual targeting. We are, from the learning of the first-party data, we can advertise on websites or apps or websites that are relevant to or to interest or characteristics of its audience, like MSI, sports, general entertainment, OTTs, news websites, they're all very relevant. Utilizing alliances or cohorts, publishers in European and American markets, as you know, have started to form alliances. Similar situation will soon come in India. Big advertisers will have to pick and choose similar alliances or in fact form our own alliances. And also the, as you know, the fingerprinting, as we call it, which is to build a probabilistic model by using users' metadata to build a targetable profile. And we are already using CDP to build such models. So the above steps, we believe, have also made Maruti Suzuki future ready for a cookie-less world. Once Google does away with the third-party cookies, which is expected that in the Chrome browser, that should end by 2023 and to suggest to summarize what I have discussed so far. I like to say that Maruti Suzuki has been able to reach a certain level of maturity on this data-driven journey. But it will continue to progress as we get more and more data on customer interactions, feedback, and performances of our campaigns. The end goal is, of course, always be evolving with whatever the consumer requires. And today, we feel empowered and more secure to have built a robust and futuristic data ecosystem that will ensure that we continue to serve our customers this step ahead. But as I conclude, I would like to quote what J. Byer said, the future of marketing isn't big data. It is the big understanding. So we must all embark on this journey to strengthen the capability of the organization to understand the data better and better and better from a consumer's perspective. Thank you very much.


Ladies and gentlemen, we are so excited to welcome you here to Log Cabin Village this morning. My name is Shayna Voey, the assistant site supervisor here. You've already met our site supervisor, Rina Lawrence, who's back there at the gate and will wave. Everybody wave, Rina, she's wonderful. It's an occasion. We are so honored to dedicate these two stopping stones as we remember the lives of Mr. Jefferson Walton and Ms. Molly and acknowledge their unrecognized and uncompensated work and contributions to our community's history. Today, we feel the weight of their stories as we stand in the shadow of the house which encapsulated their unpaid labor. However, we also feel the joyous resiliency of their lives as we approach Juneteenth, the end of their bondage and the beginning of a new life of freedom. We are honored and humbled to share this space with an incredible slate of speakers and performers who will guide us in the uplifting and complex stories of Mr. Walton and Ms. Molly. Without further ado, I'd like to introduce our first speaker, Mayor Matty Parker. Good morning, and of course, thank you to Shay and the staff here at Log Cabin Village for this stopping stones project and for allowing us all to gather here today on what is actually a pretty cool morning in June in Texas. We'll take it, right? In all seriousness, these two markers by the stopping stones project are the first in Texas to acknowledge and memorialize the lives of enslaved people. Today we pay tribute to their courage, their resilience, and the countless others who endured the hardships of slavery. The stopping stones before us serve as physical symbols representing the path walked by Jefferson Walton and Ms. Molly. And the countless others whose lives were impacted by slavery. These stones stand as a testament to their strength and a very important reminder that their stories must never be forgotten. As we begin the month of June, let us reflect on how Juneteenth is a pivotal moment in our nation's history, reminding us of the resilience and determination of those who fought against the injustices of slavery. And as we stand here today, let us reaffirm our commitment to building a more inclusive and equitable society that starts right here in Fort Worth. May these stopping stones serve as a very important reminder of the progress we have made as well as a call to continue our work toward a future where every individual is treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. Thank you all for joining us on such a significant occasion. May these stopping stones dedication ceremony inspire us to learn from the past, work towards a better future, and celebrate the enduring spirit of Juneteenth. It's now a pleasure of mine to get to introduce our next speaker, Ms. Brenda Sanders-Wise. Brenda serves as the Executive Director of the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society, and we're very thankful for all of her hard work across Fort Worth. Ms. Brenda, please join us. On behalf of the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society, which is led by our President, Jimmy Walker, and his Board of Directors, we are so very happy and grateful to be part of the log cabin village stopping stones dedication ceremony, celebrating the life and contributions of Jefferson Walton and Molly. I have a quote here, it says, the living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. And this is from a novel, the Issa Valley by Mislos. Remembrance and recognition of one's life, their work, and their impact on the history of their community or their state is so vital to our society. We as an organization can relate to the recognition of these individuals' contributions because we do so on a daily basis at the Lenore Raleigh Heritage Center Museum, located at the historic south side, 1020 East Humboldt Street, where we for 46 years are still preserving the past in the present for the future, bringing history to life, whether good or bad, sharing the historical contributions of Africans, Americans in Tarrant County and expressing how they helped to shape a city once riddled with Jim Crow laws, but now are playing significant roles in local government and performing their civic duties without hesitation. As we take part in this ceremony, we are pleased to support this stopping stones project to truthfully report the past and shape the future of racial equity, harmony, unity, and most of all, respect, while helping the citizens of our great city not only to realize and recall the history of slavery, but you must be willing and you must be prepared to discuss the racial issues that we face today. We will also continue to increase our efforts as an organization to improve upon the legacy and vision of our founder, Mrs. Lenore Raleigh, by researching, collecting, preserving, and sharing our history with everyone. Thank you. And now, at this time, I would like to introduce a charter member of our organization. The grandmother of Juneteenth, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, none other than Dr. Opal Lee. With her granddaughter, Ms. Dionne Samms, Executive Director of Unity Unlimited. Good morning, young people. And you're all young people if you're not 96. Now, the greetings to the Reverend Melvin. This is the stepping stones. Okay. Hey, they got me going so fast. I don't know what I'm doing. I have to cotton pick and tie. So, stepping stones, thank you for allowing me to bring your greetings. And let me just say you need to know that on the south side of Fort Worth and at Rosedale and Evans, we're putting up the National Juneteenth Museum. I tell you, I'm so happy about it that I could do a holy dance. But the kids say when I try, I'm twerking, whatever that is. I hope I get to give each one of you one of these. These that talks about Opal's Walk for Freedom. That's going to be on the 19th of June. We're going to start at the Plaza on Evans Avenue. And we're going to make two and a half miles and come back to that spot. Hope you'll come out and join us. And we've already had our breakfast of prayer and it was spectacular. And we've had the Miss Juneteenth pageant already. And there are so many other things that we're doing. You know, Dion knows all about that stuff. But let me say how thankful I am that we've come this far. What we want to make sure we understand about the exhibit today is that history is doomed to repeat itself if we don't talk about it. And that's one of the neat things alike about Log Cabin Village that gives us a peek into the past and adding this exhibit, these stopping stones to recognize Jefferson and Molly and all of the previously enslaved folks that are now being recognized with the National Holiday of Juneteenth, we can understand that freedom is for everyone. And all of our histories, our collective histories, is what made the U.S. what it is. Again, as Brenda said, good, bad, or ugly, we need to make sure we honor our history and not erase it. Because in erasing it, the future generations don't know where we've been so they don't repeat the mistakes of our past. So this exhibit is unique in that it represents us here locally, but it's a collective small piece to the greater fabric which makes up the United States and the history. So we are a microcosm in the stopping stones here to understand that there was slavery, but now we've got to move past it to understanding that we're not free yet until we're all free. And so Juneteenth represents freedom for all and the history of the stopping stones will give the young people an understanding to ask, well, what does that stand for? And be told the history, be told, and that way they learn. So I thank Log Cabin Village for inviting Miss Opal and I to be a part of the dedication because you can erase what has already happened. Thank you. We could get one more round of applause for all of our speakers. We would like to introduce a very special guest. We actually have Miss Molly here with us this morning who would like to say a few words before we dedicate her stone. Miss Molly? Good day everybody. I'm Molly. Foreground here calls me aunt. When the good people's here at the Log Cabin Village tears me eyes coming all the way here to the year.  All kinds of feelings back then because you see eyes coming home here to this here house. This house is the foster house. This where I've lived most of my life. Let me tell you a story. I was just 16 years old. I left my birth home in the Mississippi in a covered wagon with Mr. Harry and Miss Martha and Foster. We traveled a many, many sunrises and sunsets but we got on down here to the Sullivan, Texas over in the Mylam County area.  I'm scared. I'm curious too because you see them be the only wife folks I've ever been with. I think so so that who I is and what I's gonna do and who I's gonna be that I was ready to get on to the Texas so I could see. We traveled from the Mississippi all the way to the Texas and we passed by through many places. I can't remember most of them but I remember that they all can so. Did you know that Miss Maya Angelou is from Arkansas? Where she come a long way on after I went on to be with the good Lord? Her that she wrote, I never learned how members wear and they tell me about that day one. A woman's work tears it like it be. I always try to see the beauty and God inside of everything. This had gone. The children to attend. The clothes to men. The floor to be marked. The food to shop. The chicken to fry. The baby to dry. Company to feed. The garden to weed. I got the shirts to be pressed. The torch to dress. The can to be cut. I got to clean up this hut. Then she bat the sick in the cotton to pick. Shine on Miss Sunshine. Rain falls softly. Dew drops and cools my brow gain. Cross the sky till I can rest again.  She kisses and lets me. Mountains, oceans, leaf. There's some good writing right now. Listen here. I was born in 1833. And I spent my whole life caring for the generations of children in this here foster house. It ain't sat quite right where with me when I is how some folks thank some men. Like I was just a servant with no name. I was more than just a servant in this here house. I care for the children. I care for the sick. I done the cooking and the cleaning. I nursed the youngin' when Missa is too tired for her day. I do the washing and the sorting and the folding. I keep the whole house here together year after year. From the sun up to the sundown. I still take time to take care of my own family. Now that there. That right there. That's that woman's work. Imagine how I must have felt when the good people's here at the Lord Cabin Village Tasman. They was bringing me all the way here to my home because they said that they got something called a stopping stone. He never heard of such a thing. But the tabman is going to be planted right. Can she and know my name? Because you see a woman in the 1800s such as myself so much so that history can't even find ya.  He says that the star. My name is Jefferson Walt. And I'm so grateful to be here today with you. The folks from the Lord Cabin Village bring me all the way from 1925 Branchville, Texas. Myland County. Most of you ain't never heard of such a place. But another famous fella that come from Branchville just the same Arthur Bryant. You know the Kansas City, Missouri barbecue fella come from Branchville just the same. Made his way to Missouri where there's another famous fella I'm sure you heard of. James Mercer Langson Hughes. Poet. He wrote about lots of things. He wrote about the plight of the Negro. One piece that he wrote that seemed to be my voice or what I say to somebody who listened. I too sing America. I'm the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes. But I laugh and eat well and grow strong. Tomorrow I'll be at the table when company comes. No one dares say to me eat in the kitchen then. Besides they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed. I too am America. I was born in 1834. God's beautiful. Or a man at all. I'll tell you, Fanny, Willard Holly she'll never thought I was beautiful. So much so she agreed to marry me in 1860. She gave me 13 cheerings and 6 to 6 years of love that no man could ever take away from it. We started a family right away. Let's see, first come James, Jeffy, Walter, William, Fanny, Lulu. People I can still recall all their names.  It means something for you good folks after all these years of here they names. When folks see a photograph of me all they see is an enslaved man. That's all. But I was a laborer, a farmer. That text is all like I was imagined. Plants that healed our bodies, food that made us strong, the clothes that we needed and fabrics for houses I couldn't even live in. But I did all those things because I was a farmer and eyes got a name. So imagine how glad I was when the good folks at the law cabin village all the way to... what year is it again? What they call stop and stone. They bring me here for... I can't recall what it is. I never heard of such a thing. But they say it's going to be planted for generations to come. What comes through here will see my name. Jefferson, Walter. It's going to be planted like them crops I used to grow. I guess that poet's fellow wasn't wrong after all. They will see how beautiful I am. I too am America. Thank you so much. And now it is my great pleasure and excitement to welcome Miss Sharon Goodspeed Keaton to take it away. Lift every voice and sing to Earth and Heaven. Let it resound. The dark past has taught Sing present has brought and words with us today on this special occasion. We have so many people who supported this effort that we want to take a moment to thank. First off, thank you to artist Paul Grolld for creating this project and hand stamping the stones. And to Sophia Babbitt, Director of Operations and Engagement Arts Fund Stopping Stones for guiding us through this process. We also want to thank all of our wonderful, incredible, amazing partners in this program. The Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society, Incorporated. United... Unity. Unlimited. DVA Productions, Incorporated. Xenia Roastery, the City of Fort Worth's Diversity and Inclusion Department and the Office of Communications and Public Engagement. Also, a huge shout out to Miss Karen Stumer, Public Education Program Coordinator for the Park and Recreation Department who made sure that this day went off without a hitch. She brought us some really good weather today, y'all. Let's thank Karen. This has been a huge effort and we are so grateful for all of your support and so grateful for all of you who woke up on this humid Saturday morning to come out and honor Mr. Jefferson Walton and Miss Molly. I hope that you will all join us for a reception in the village immediately following this presentation. We have some light refreshments and Justin McLaughlin and his team from Xenia Roastery have some delicious, locally roasted and brewed coffee available for y'all. We have free admission all day. So we hope that you'll take the time to explore the village, talk to our incredible historical interpreters and visit the booths out back for our partners to learn more about all of the incredible work that they are doing here in Fort Worth. We will have the stones on display in the building so if you'd like to get a closer look at them before they are permanently installed next week. So thank you once again for joining us and we hope to see y'all out back. Thank you so much.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. Millions of Indian workers and farmers take part in historic strike. Greek trade unions hold strike against government mismanagement of COVID-19. Iran nuclear deal Hassan Rouhani makes offer to Joe Biden. And Saudi women's rights activist Lajen al-Hathlul to face trial in terrorism court. In our first story, India witnessed the biggest organized strike ever in human history with over 250 million workers and farmers, along with their allies among students, feminists and civil society groups taking part in the country-wide strike. Strike coincides with India's constitution day and came in the background of an unprecedented attack on workers' rights and farmers' protections by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Strike was organized by the coalition of workers and farmers movements with 10 national trade union confederation and Umbrella groups. Meanwhile, the All India Kisan Sangar Samiti, which is the All India Farmers Coordination Committee that consists of over 200 peasants groups across India also took part. Women's rights groups, students unions and various civil society organizations participate. The strike received support from left parties and several opposition groups. Some of the key demands contained in the 12-point charter put forward by the organizers include the withdrawal of a series of legislations recently passed by the Modi government, which repeal key labour and farm price protections. They also sought a rollback in recent disinvestment policies in major government owned enterprises, the implementation of existing welfare schemes for rural workers and expanding welfare policies to aid the masses affected by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of farmers along with members of trade union groups and other movements from across India also led a rally to the capital Delhi. The rally was met with fierce repression from the Delhi police who made use of a blockade, bait and charges and water cannons to stop the march. Eventually, the blockade was breached. In a similar confrontation with the authorities, workers and farmers groups brought major metropolitan cities like Kolkata and Mumbai to a standstill with sit-ins organized on key transport routes. The industrial and mining belt across the east and central India also witnessed a shutdown. In our next story, the Greek working class took out a massive country-wide strike as well on November 26th that's today, demanding safety and resources in various sectors of work to fight COVID-19. The strike action was joined by sections from all walks of life including factory workers, teachers, health workers, youth, students, professionals and government employees. The workers took out limited demonstrations adhering to COVID-19 safety protocol in various cities across Greece following the strike action at their workplaces. Strikes took place at factories, offices, hospitals, schools, etc. In Athens, the workers demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Labor. The trade unions and strike have demanded benefits without terms and conditions to all those who are unemployed. They have also called for the revoking of all illegal terminations that have taken place during COVID-19 period and ending further redundancies. In addition, they are demanding that there be no cuts in employment rights and a moratorium on bank payments be provided along with free electricity, gas, water, communications, services, etc. for workers in quarantine. The Communist Party of Greece, KKE, expressed solidarity with the workers' strike and took part in organizing the strike as well. In our next story, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered to go back to all its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA or the Iran Nuclear Deal, provided the U.S. President-elect Joe Biden agrees to join back and lift all sanctions. Rouhani was addressing a press conference after a crucial cabinet meeting in Tehran on November 25th yesterday. He said that both countries can go back to their respective status prior to the Trump presidency if President-elect Biden has a political will to do so. Rouhani has repeated the Iranian offer several times after the results in the U.S. presidential elections became clear. A few days ago, the country's foreign minister Jawad Zarif also had repeated the offer. Donald Trump had unilaterally withdrawn from the deal in May 2018. The deal which had paved the way for lifting of all sanctions against Iran in 2015 was signed by Iran and five other countries, China, Russia, the UK, France, and Germany besides the U.S. In return for the end of international sanctions, Iran had agreed to low-grade its nuclear program. Since the reimposition of the U.S. sanctions, Iran citing JCPOA provisions has stopped adhering to some of the commitments under the deal. Joe Biden during his election campaign has promised to rejoin the deal after assuming office. Finally, Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Lajenal Hatlul, who has been imprisoned since May 2018, will stand trial in a specialized criminal court setup for terrorism-related offenses. This was according to statements by her family. Her young sister Lena Al-Hathlul said in a tweet on Wednesday that Saudi authorities had transferred her case to the special terror court, citing lack of jurisdiction by a regular criminal court. Lena Al-Hathlul said that her sister looked extremely frail during a court appearance and that her body was shaking uncontrollably. Her voice was very soft and shaky. Despite being in such a bad physical condition, Lajen still managed to read the four-page defense to a judge. Her other sister Ali Al-Hathlul said in a tweet. Earlier on Tuesday, Lena had termed the court appearance as a sham and a show trial, which has been arbitrary resumed by government authorities after Lajen spent 900 days in prison. The activist had launched a second hunger strike in October 26 to protest against prisoner-prisoned authorities denying her the right to maintain regular contact with her family. That is all we have time for today. We will be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch. you


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All right, separate traders welcome on back here this Tuesday not Monday Of course we had off yesterday from Memorial Day. Hope everybody enjoyed the weekend Of course, this is Tuesday May 30th shortly after 2 30 p.m. Eastern time great to have all of our students and members alike inside our live Trading room. We have Dan Michael Sam just before I was working with a bunch of our students one-on-one on coaching calls Just a moment ago great to see all of our students members alike just joining us right now so that further do folks Let's hop right into the meeting here. I have a couple of stocks making a pretty strong push upward at this time I want to get the spy chart up here too as we're kind of going through and typically have it up a little different chart here for Right now, so spy ended up just trying to make a small bounce just before I don't know how much I believe that so you know I feel like we might get another lower high and a pullback lower into the clothes That's just my very shoot from the hip feel. I mean from the morning I was correct the thinking that we'd get the pullback heading into the mid morning mid to late morning I still think that there's a chance where we see the S&P look to break much lower into the clothes And if it's not by the clothes today, perhaps I'll be in the after hours tonight into the morning tomorrow, but Apparently that's not stopping charge point CHP T great to have Tony one of our long-time members here Tony joining us here and with that Charge point CHP T ended up making a pretty good push once the market had opened up today I know a few of us were focused on this trade, you know more from our side list at first It wasn't on the main morning watch list on the pre-market list our eyes were focused on the AI sector really Well, hey charge point ended up making a great push in the morning And it jumped on our radar at some point and we've been following it since just before I was on a coaching call One of our students and I was telling them hey the more times it knocks its head on this 970 level perhaps we can get a very good trade heading into the afternoon Well, you know earlier at first it re broke above 970 and this was very well times took a trade out right off 970 great start pushed up 15 cents But it didn't continue it ended up pulling back with the markets at the time You know, it's tough to see a stock swim upstream and it ended up taking me out completely break even Well from there pulled back. I expected support to eventually turn into resistance So I wasn't as keen to take the trade actually I ended up not chasing it But taking a tiny bit higher from where I wanted to you know get back in off 970 Actually, I ended up seeing this big iceberg pop up on the bid a moment ago Looks like that order just got pulled so actually be careful my stop is still set to break even here So now just before just about a 60,000 share iceberg order popping up on the bid at 969 Looks like that order got pulled just as we started the meeting You know hey over time Let's see if this ends up laddering up if this ends up pulling here and then building up higher It's still pushing up here for right now. So I mean looks good Right now definitely just put this on our main watch list to begin got major resistance up top at 10 I was telling my student on our coaching call earlier, you know, the more times it knocks its head on that 970 You know, there's a better probability of seeing this eventually move up closer to 10 So don't want to jump in too far away from 970 970 area, especially with the potential of a ladder on the bid Let's see what else we got though charge point nice stock here taking us into the afternoon You know, of course the AI stocks here AI C3 AI I think they're coming out the earnings this week, you know, I think on Thursday this week So be on look out for that ended up having a big pop once the market had opened up once again today And then from there will obviously a big nasty shake down for as much as this stock in particular is pumping up over The last several months at this point Of course, we're gonna begin to see more chaotic moves as people look to sell and dump off and take profits Especially off a gap up going into the next weekly candle So I ended up having a big move initially, but then a big dump off over time It tried to move back up again moved up towards the highs roughly off that 41 level and you know I guess it's shaking around a lot, right? So if you're more of a level 4 trader and above then you know who you are perhaps you're more inclined to follow This on any day, you know, right now, I'm gonna put this on the side right now I've actually been using the AI trade more so it's a kind of shadow the other AI related stocks here Just such as a PLD from the morning here. The stock has been pretty strong all across the day Now pull back a bit just with the AI when once AI shook off a 41 looks pretty synonymous. There are pretty, you know Sinked in there. I should say in terms of time But otherwise though this a PLD. It's still a big the liquidity is actually pretty good today for this one You know spreads are pretty tight for the meantime. I Don't mind adding this with charge point CHPT. We got a PLD here What about so five it's not an AI stock obviously but you know We were calling out so far actually heading into 215 Eastern 220 prior to this meeting starting You know just saying not just put the move back up But I was looking to see support hold right off of 585 and it was already beginning to bounce off of there So we needed it to hold above there obviously and well, hey if it can break through a big level And hold above it, you know the potential of seeing that big move upward greatly increases And nobody are saying before it looks like it's ready to make a move up to six and here we are now So this would actually be a decent time to take a little money off the table and run at least if you were in off the 585 call out But yeah alongside with the other two. I'll definitely just put this on our main watch list to start Man nice little push on the spy a little bit more and more and more up we go I'm not a full believer just yet. However, I'm a fan of all these stocks that we've looked at thus far I haven't traded EPLD today myself. I will say but so far in charge point I have been really monitoring all throughout the day today Took a couple of losses on charge point just earlier But then otherwise led to the re-entry and then from there really strong push-up Same as so far. I mean, I wasn't as inclined to focus on so far at the market open today Personally, I was actually more inclined to focus in on TIGR, which as much as this looks like a mess This actually we hit head on on the entry just failed to see this break higher So, you know, even this was actually a great trade from the morning. We had the riot trade Riot from the market open session today No, we talked all about this insider weekly workshop traders talk, you know We've done that inside our live trading room We'll have the recording of that up on the student dashboard for all for all of our members just later on this afternoon Hey, well, I'm at it if you're joining us on YouTube today YouTube Facebook live LinkedIn Twitter, etc Go right to our YouTube channel up until this Friday if I was to actually extend this offer up until this Friday a New subscriber giveaway just subscribe right to our YouTube channel youtube.com forward slash cyber trading you and you could win a free month inside our live trading room to attend our live Workshops traders talk get the recordings of all of them as well But of course be a member inside our room with our students like Leda and Michael Kathleen Jith Ravina right now Yeah, I mean for the meantime riot kind of making that bounce with the S&P here at the indices. It's tradable Don't get me wrong. This was actually a money short earlier today Coming off traders talk jumped on to a coaching call and this was like right for the taking lower highs It was almost like a big Fausto flag here But the real level was off 1220 and essentially once it rebroke under that and broke the lows here Easy to say but that was a really good short You'd call it out at the time the more times it's knocking its head on that floor it should look to break through it The stock is really tradable still at this time of the day But I'm gonna put this on our side list right now, you know, this and the AI kind of stir on the back burner for right now All right, so with that in mind at least let's see what else we can get here heading into the market close Q-tech you got ATTO these stocks up big here today. We'll check out the ATTO Had popped up earlier more so heading into traders talk heading into our weekly workshop. This is pushing up So, you know us doing the workshop then I didn't get my hands on this Ended up pushing up really well at least all throughout the mid-to-leat morning up towards 315 above Ended up kind of peeking and pulling back from there. Hey, it's still kind of hanging in right hasn't completely went the other way It hasn't dumped off just yet, you know in that sense It's given it a shot given it a fair shake to see if this could break higher here or at least, you know Over the next hour hour and a half So I don't mind at least putting this back on our list ATTO I took a two cent loss on a CON just a moment ago here I thought this would have been an opportune time like kind of under and over and just hey It wasn't making that big squeeze up like I was hoping to see it. It was actually right here right before the big shake down well, especially now at this point I'm gonna move on from this trade because No, maybe I was looking for a second wind type of move like a quick little quick pop up towards 110 115 Maybe but yeah, there's definitely better trades out there now at this point WLDS more so from the mid-to-late morning here also kind of during traders talk as well I actually completely missed out on this trade. I didn't even notice this ended up popping from 150 up towards 220 225 great run the stock we were very familiar with back from Thursday last week ended up seeing make a very strong pop up Actually made a much better pop then compared to what I was expecting it to do so Yeah, I gotta start respecting the stock a little bit more. I reckon but you know for right now It's still holding over the VWAP, but hasn't really broken out just yet again. So Yeah, at least I'll put it on the side list. I'll give it that respect. I'll come back to it How about that? But you know, there's no need to build out a big list here folks when we already have a really good push on this charge point trade It's already on our main watch list number one already. We got the so if high stocks still pushing up pretty strong up towards six There's a few trades already cooking folks. We don't need to build out a big watch list now at the stage A AIC I definitely know is some sort of You know agreement will call it if not a buyout all together Merger agreement buyout, however, you phrase it for a four dollar stock. This thing isn't really moving too well. So I'll pass on that For a dollar stock. It is moving. Well, this UTME, but the liquidity really is just pretty risky Rather trade a better stock than that This kind of looks like a buyout also looking at zoomed out here from the daily chart, right? Or from the one-minute chart rather Let me check the news out on this trade really quick if you don't mind I saw this up big in pre-market. I think I even put this on the pre-market watch list at that I'll be really honest with you. It was moving so well then I didn't assume it could be a buyout What do we got here? Trading higher following a tentative debt limit agreement Which contains a provision to accelerate the completion of the Mountain Valley pipeline All right, so I'm not too familiar with the Mountain Valley pipeline. Maybe you are Right now what I like about this trade is that it's moving up. It is moving up pretty steadily I just didn't know if it was a buyout officially or not So, you know, if it was then I definitely would not have been as inclined, you know Pretty similar to the other trade that we just talked about it. So, you know what I actually like this one here for the afternoon It's trying to go back up towards the opening price off of 850 852 ETRN why not we'll give it a shake give it a fair crack Let's see if there's anything else looking good from the gainer side. There definitely could be even with the market I'm not as confident on seeing break a higher high Givo cheat beat here. It's pushing back up once again. You know, it's just a little slow for my liking I wish it was like a faster moving trade And rather the WLDS over this All right, AI we said is on the side list. We'll come back to that just at the tail ends You know, if it looks stronger by the end of this meeting then we'll put it back on BTBT it's hard to avoid this stock here. Look at this. It's at the highs It's trading about 10 11,000 shares per minute Hopefully it doesn't completely wane back down from this point But you know, it has all the tradeable characteristics that you want to see out of a stock and I think Fausto is talking about this one from the morning session To so, you know what I'll make room for this looks good Charge point I mean it's already at 981 still looking pretty strong. I didn't know if it was pushing up higher there at the time since Yeah, Carvana pushing back up pretty strongly right now. So CV&A not to be confused with CHPT I'll add this stock that I mean pretty much most of us will just say are familiar with insider live trading room Let's say if you're not familiar with this trade then you're probably just brand new because this stock We've traded just routinely in the past and it's kind of a mean stock, but it's tradable That's what makes it, you know, just worthwhile for us to call out day to day Good liquidity good spread. We're not gonna call it out every day literally But you know, it had a nice pop in the morning popped up on our scanners pretty quickly from there And I'll be honest. I haven't really looked at it since I mean we called out the pullback and I took my eyes off it But hey running back into this trade again with it moving the way it is definitely a great stock for this afternoon session comparative to IOVA not so much Comparative to GSID it is pretty good. So GSIT nice little pop just since two o'clock broke above the highs there off at 560 Just false break over six first test. That's expected Why not I mean more of an afternoon push, you know, I just wish the liquidity fills in a little bit further on the order book But no good for right now. I'll edit All right, so I'll tell you what market is proving me wrong this far hasn't shaken back down just yet Although it hasn't technically broken like real high just yet. It's you know, kind of creeping back up right now But I'll check in on the spy officially before we wrap up. How about that? I'll kind of take a look at the closing price from yesterday see where we are in relation to that You know, I know that we're up a few pennies above it right now, but All right, let's hop over to the loser side here I mean bunch of stuff hard to borrow kind of skip over those to begin and really nothing down as much to look for a Real dead cat bounce real squeeze up. I know big lots ended up reporting earnings this morning They dropped off at the open Hard to borrow from it. If you can get sure it's a short big then give it a give it a shot Otherwise maybe trying to day trade the puts on it if it breaks lower, but yeah for right now We have so many stocks on our list here at this point You know see if there's anything looking much better than this but otherwise Now I'll kind of call it. It's an ETF. You see oh All right, folks really I could just tell there's not as much down percentage wise perhaps or at least if it is it's it's hard to Borrow can't get the shares to short it or it's just too cheap or it's just not trading enough volume So, you know if there is anything else looking really good up down left right type it in the chapel here Let me know just checking Benzinga here really quickly. I may have one or two. I just have to Take a look at the chart see what it looks like on the chart, but VSTM.  I reckon one or two, but Pass on that one for right now KOPM, you know, it's at the highs. I don't know if I skipped over this one Actually, maybe just popped up as we were going from top to bottom Not terrible. That's better at least than the other one Beat doing nothing there at Tupperware trying to squeeze, but for right now I'll pass on it I just think there's better opportunities right now I'm just going through my Benzinga pro scanner here pretty quickly you're getting a small little push-up on top But folks unless if you're here to specifically gamble and you're trying to trade a stock on a 20 cent spread Rather you trade a stock on a tighter spread. So yeah, I'm gonna pass on this top trade not worth my time It's just a distraction Mike here in the cyber group room saying sideless W. Hmm. It is pushing up a little bit there Mike, isn't it? You know, hey, if you did well on this stock from earlier today, then you definitely know who you are I'm speaking to anyone not Michael because Michael knows Michael knows who he is. He's gonna be trading this one I'm certain and if he's in it already. I hope he's doing well. So, you know, definitely sideless up big though I didn't really focus on this just before so they shout All right, what do we got from Sam saying boozy not bad not a bad shout, right? I mean, it's up big I just wish it was trading more volume per minute spreads are good order books good Wish it was trading actively more volume per minute. I'm gonna write this down though at least boozy for the sideless though I mean by all means it's like tradable Felix there. There we go. I'm just going from bottom to top there And I want to get to the stocks that we already had on our side list at the end like WLDS from Warren and AI from Phil What we said to be go back to those anyway, CV and a we already put on the main list there Michael wrote that before Felix with top we talked about just a moment ago as well. So Let's see what else we got here Let's just go down the sideless to wrap up AI back over 40 So since we left off at this trade it ended up the lasting over 40 Given it perhaps more life left on this trade. So we'll jump back to Palantir Wow PLTR is back over my 1485 isn't it? I was looking for that support to hold earlier and I ended up getting stopped out from minus two or minus three just Before as it pulled under it, but you know, hey, obviously, there's other trades out there It dumped off a lot more since and you know now pushing back above that 1485 price Let's just see what else we got here first right Again, I'm not really too antsy to put this on our main list just yet. I'd rather that AI trade. I'd rather Palantir WLDS I think is done for the time being Jivo I think is a little too slow for my blood All right, so that gets it down to Vuzi that gets it down to AI and it gets it down to the PLTR You know what out of all three I'm gonna put Vuzi on that list Hopefully Vuzi pops up on more people's scanners and you know, we see more volume trading on that stock heading into the close Obviously PLTR and AI are both tradable by all measures So if you've done well on PLTR and if you've done well on AI again You know who you are out there Then I would recommend for you personally to to chart that stock again or at least you know Sink your teeth into that and see if it can make another push higher If not though, I'd rather you focus on CV&A I'd rather you focus on Vuzi or SoFi or a charge point There is a lot to work with you're heading into the close folks The last thing that you want to do is just make a call out to make a call out focus on the two stocks that You're focused on or three stocks and then don't let anything else distract you If nothing out of those two or three stocks that you're gonna choose ends up making a respectable move by 3 p.m And about 10 or so minutes from now Then at that point see what's moving in the trading room then at that point You know rescan the market at that stage But that's how we look to kind of structure ourselves as traders all throughout the day Obviously from the morning and pre-market all the way to right now So obviously we look to cover that all throughout our main trading curriculum You know, I know that Faust will be conducting the phase 3 class towards the latter portion of this week Yeah, I move the class is just a couple of the other day Behind so Thursday Friday this week Faust will be resuming the classes with the phase 3 stock course All right So for Kathleen for Grant for Jeth and Michael and Phil and Grant and all of us there right now worn included Let me know if you have any questions folks I'll be here in the chat board up until 3 30 for all of us in social media Once more just make sure that you send over any questions right to my email address Josh at C2Train.com Then if you're interested in joining us inside our live trading room Hey, there's a chance for you to win a free month and that goes the same to be said for any of our members actively there right now If you're not subscribed yet to our YouTube channel, we're tracking everything as we've been doing from the end of last week So you know, we're extending this promotion up until Friday Open house if you are not a subscriber yet to our YouTube channel Just subscribe before Friday and we're gonna look to announce the winner You may look to win a free month inside our live trading room if you're there now We'll just tack it on with your membership simple as that Alright folks, but hey best of luck trading going into the market close. 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We are discussing international joint ventures, and in this topic, we are going to talk about the reasons why international joint ventures are created or may be created. International joint ventures may be created in order to gain knowledge and transfer that knowledge from the joint venture to the parent firm. So it is possible that you want to enter a local market. You want to know about a local market. You want to know about the raw materials, or you want to know about the processes, or you want to know what the company is doing effectively to learn their competitive advantage. You can go for an international joint venture to gain that knowledge and then to transfer that knowledge back to your parent firm. It is also possible that the host government insists that you go for a joint venture. You cannot operate as a multinational company. You cannot exist on your own in a particular country. You need to go for a joint venture. So it is possible that the host government in which you are trying to enter, in the country which you are trying to enter, the government of that country, it insists that you go for an international joint venture. The benefit of this is that the host country's stakes are also involved in it. They are also involved in your decision making, management, profitability. So it creates a stake of the local, of the host country in the multinational which is coming to work in that particular country. Another reason is to achieve economies of scale. So if a firm is operating in a particular country and they want to increase their market, they want to increase the production level and they locate another firm which is operating similar kind of functions in another country and to achieve those economies of scale, they don't go for establishing a new company in the local country. They go for an international joint venture to achieve these economies of scale. Then in order to gain local knowledge, that is also possible. That is one of the reasons. And another reason is to obtain vital raw materials. So sometimes raw material is not available in the country where the company is existing. They want to go for a particular product and the raw material for that product is not available in that country in which they are operating. So in order to gain vital raw materials for that product, they go and establish firms in that country. For example, in Pakistan, Pakistan is one of the largest producers of cotton and cotton industry. So multinationals from all over the world, they used to come to Pakistan and establish cotton industry and products that were made from cotton, textiles and fabrics, they used to come over here and establish businesses related to this particular raw material, which is cotton. Then one of the reasons for creating an international joint venture is to share the risk with another company. So if there is a financial risk or if there is a profitability risk, then to share the risk with another partner, that could be another reason for creating the joint venture. Then another reason is to improve your global competitive advantage by creating a joint venture. You become more responsive to the requirements of the global challenges and it is possible that you can gain global competitive advantage. Another reason for establishing an international joint venture is to provide an efficient and cost effective response required by the market and required by the globalization that is taking place in this world. So sometimes it is possible to achieve this cost effective response by bringing together processes, by bringing together skills, by bringing together facilities and resources, and by bringing together these resources, it is possible to provide a cost effective response which is required by the market and by the global market. So these are some of the reasons for establishing an international joint venture by bringing together two firms from two different countries.