Bloomberg Businessweek - USA (2020-10-12)

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◼INBRIEF

● Poland’scompetition

watchdogslappeda fineof

$ 7.6 b

onGazprom.TheRussian

companyhasalmost

completeda contentious

naturalgaspipelineunder

theBalticSeatoGermany

thatPolandsayswillhurt

competition.Waryof

Germandependenceon

Russia,theU.S.hasalso

urgedit toscraptheproject.

Gazpromplanstoappeal.

● In China,about

425 million

peopletraveled

domesticallyin

thefirstfourdays

oftheGolden

Weekholiday.

● Globalcoronavirus

caseshavepassed

36m

anddeathsnowexceed

1.05million.AttheWhite

House,PresidentTrump,his

wife,Melania,spokeswoman

KayleighMcEnany,and

otherkeyaidesalltested

positive.Trumphasbeen

givena powerfulcocktail

ofexperimentaldrugs

andsteroids.▷ 8

● U.S.aircarriershave

furloughedabout

38k

workerssinceOct.1,

includingmajorlayoffs

atAmericanAirlinesand

UnitedAirlines.Southwest

Airlinessaidit’scutting

compensationtoavoid

lettingemployeesgo.

● Tokyo’s$6trillionstock

exchangesuffereda

full-dayoutageonOct.1,

thelongestinterruption

sinceswitchingtoa fully

electronictradingsystem

morethantwodecades

ago.Thehardware-driven

failurewaspromptedbya

malfunctioningdatadevice.

● Protests

eruptedin

Kyrgyzstanafter

contentious

parliamentary

electionson

Oct.4.

● CineworldGroupwill

temporarilysuspend

operationsatallitsU.S.

andU.K.theatersafter

blockbusterreleases,

includingthelatest

JamesBond

film,were

pushedintonext

year.Themoveaffects

45,000employees.

● “The

safety

profile of

a vaccine

that’s

going to

be used

in millions

of people

has to be

incredibly

clean.”

Peter Marks, the head of the U.S. Food

and Drug Administration’s vaccine

division, defended his agency’s policy

of a two-month safety follow-up in

trial patients. The White House wants

to accelerate the introduction of a

coronavirus vaccine.

BloombergBusinessweek By Benedikt Kammel

● Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada died in Paris at 81 following

complications from Covid-19. The Kenzo label he created in the early 1970s

pioneered bright colors, street style, and animal prints on the catwalk.

It’s a sign that the country where the

pandemic originated is eager to move

beyond the crisis after nine mostly

homebound months.

● Rock legend Eddie Van Halen also

passed away, at 65. With his virtuoso

finger-tapping style and rapid riffs,

Van Halen was celebrated as the most

influential guitarist of his generation. His

family said he’d been battling cancer.

Demonstrators, angered by alleged

vote-rigging, stormed the parliament

chamber in the Central Asian republic,

and set parts of the building on fire.