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14:25 EDT Trump takes aim at Amazon on Twitter - President Donald Trump criticized Amazon once again, with a series of tweets on Saturday morning saying: "While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars. The Failing N.Y. Times reports that "the size of the company's lobbying staff has ballooned," and that... [..] ...does not include the Fake Washington Post, which is used as a "lobbyist" and should so REGISTER. If the P.O. "increased its parcel rates, Amazon's shipping costs would rise by $2.6 Billion." This Post Office scam must stop. Amazon must pay real costs (and taxes) now!" On Wednesday, Axios had reported that President Trump wants to go after tech giant Amazon (AMZN) and has discussed changing the company's tax treatment due to concerns about small retailers being put out of business. Citing five sources familiar with the matter, the publication added that Trump has wondered if there is any way to go after Amazon with antitrust or competition law as he thinks the e-commerce giant has gotten a free ride from taxpayers and the Postal service and that the company is killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers.

14:12 EDT Porter Bancorp closes private placement of common stock - Porter Bancorp reported the completion of a private placement of common stock on March 30, 2018. In the transaction, the company issued to Patriot Financial Partners III 150,000 common shares and 1M non-voting common shares at $13 per share resulting in total proceeds of $14.95M of which $5M was contributed as capital to the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Limestone Bank. The balance of the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes and to support the growth of Limestone Bank.

09:04 EDT Week in review: How Trump's policies moved stocks - Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President Trump and his administration with this weekly recap compiled by The Fly: 1. AMAZON: On Wednesday, Axios reported that President Trump wants to go after tech giant Amazon (AMZN) rather than Facebook (FB) and has discussed changing the company's tax treatment due to concerns about small retailers being put out of business. Citing five sources familiar with the matter, the publication added that Trump has wondered if there is any way to go after Amazon with antitrust or competition law as he thinks the e-commerce giant has gotten a free ride from taxpayers and the Postal service and that the company is killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers. Later that day, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders commented on the report, saying the Trump Administration is not considering any changes in policy directed at Amazon. On Thursday morning, Trump tweeted: "I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!" 2. CHINA REQUESTS: According to a report by Reuters on Monday, Trump administration officials are asking China to slash tariffs on imported cars, allow foreign majority ownership of financial services firms, and purchase more U.S.-made semiconductors in talks to avoid plans to place tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods and a possible trade war. 3. TECHNOLOGY SECTOR: A day later, shares of technology companies like Nvidia (NVDA), Skyworks (SWKS), Qualcomm (QCOM), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG; GOOGL), and Oracle (ORCL) were in the spotlight after reports that the Trump administration is considering measures against Chinese investments in U.S. technologies. According to a Bloomberg report out earlier Tuesday, the Treasury Department is working to identify sectors in U.S. Technology "in which Chinese companies would be banned from investing, such as semiconductors and so-called 5G wireless communications." 4. U.S./SOUTH KOREA TRADE DEAL: South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to revise the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, which was sharply criticized by President Donald Trump, enabling U.S. automakers like Ford (F) and General Motors (GM) to secure improved market access and Korean steelmakers like Posco (PKX) and Dongbu Steel to avoid tariffs, according to Reuters, citing South Korean Trade Minister Kim Hyun-Chong. Under the agreement, South Korea will be forced to cut its steel exports to the U.S. by 30% of the past three years' average in exchange for receiving indefinite exemption on steel tariffs and the countries agreed to extend U.S. tariffs on Korean pickup trucks until 2041. 5. LOCKHEED MARTIN: Earlier this week, U.S. Republican senators John Cornyn and James Inhofe called on the Trump administration to allow the sale of Lockheed Martin (LMT) F-35 fighter jets to Taiwan, claiming it would help the region "remain a democracy" amid threats from China, Reuters reported. 6. VA SHAKE-UP: President Trump announced via Twitter that he intends to nominate Ronny Jackson as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs, replacing David Shulkin. Trump said that, in the interim, Robert Wilkie of the Department of Defense will serve as Acting Secretary. Commenting on the announcement, Wells Fargo analyst Jamie Stockton told investors that the change in the Veteran Affairs leadership puts in doubt the timing and potentially the certainty of Cerner (CERN) signing a $10B deal to modernize the VA infrastructure for medical records. The VA had announced in June 2017 that it chose Cerner in a no-bid process to modernize its medical record infrastructure, the analyst pointed out, adding that the contract was originally expected to be signed by November 2017, but has continuously slipped as contract terms were negotiated. Stockton argued that it could take many months to sort out the new leadership at the VA, with the contract unlikely to be signed during that process. "Week in Review" is The Fly's weekly recap of its recurring series of "Trump Effect" exclusive stories.