French-American Thanksgiving: CMA CGM donates 10,000 turkeys

If you believe the story of the first Thanksgiving, the French weren’t there. But French container shipping company CMA CGM has gotten involved in the most American of holidays in a big way  this year — by feeding more than 35,000 U.S. residents.

“CMA CGM has a long tradition of giving back to the communities we serve,” said Ed Aldridge, president of CMA CGM America, in a statement. “There is no doubt that COVID-19 has fundamentally changed how all of us will experience Thanksgiving this year.”

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/french-american-thanksgiving-cma-cgm-donates-10000-turkeys

Big Crude Oil Futures in a Whopping $726 mln Unrealized Losses!

  • The United States Oil Fund was sitting on more than $700 million in unrealized losses at the end of March.
  • USO also booked actual realized losses of $466.4 million during March.
  • Several weeks before the market fully grasped the outsized role it would play in this month’s unprecedented collapse in the price of front-month oil contracts.

The United States Oil Fund (USO), the world’s most popular exchange-traded fund linked to crude oil prices, was sitting on US$725.5 million in unrealized losses...

http://mfame.guru/big-crude-oil-futures-in-a-whopping-726-mln-unrealized-losses/

Dunford Brings USO Tour to Carrier Stennis in Persian Gulf

Country music artist Kellie Pickler and a U.S. Sailor perform a song together during a USO tour performance in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Persian Gulf on Dec. 23, 2018.

USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is spending Christmas in the Persian Gulf and will be joined by America’s highest-ranking officer, an Olympic gold medalist, a country singer and Wilmar Valderrama, among others participating in a USO tour.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Joseph...

https://news.usni.org/2018/12/24/gen-dunford-olympian-country-singer-actors-cross-fit-champ-join-stennis-crew-for-christmas-in-persian-gulf

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