2020年经济学人 一周要闻 波音公布新市场预测 沃尔纳出售ASDA Cineworld关闭英、美影院

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A committee in America’s House of Representatives accused Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google of exploiting their monopoly power, comparing them to oil and railway tycoons¹ in the 19th century, and recommended sweeping² reforms to antitrust laws. That could spell trouble for the tech giants if the Democrats³ win both chambers⁴ of Congress next month.

美国众议院的一个委员会指责亚马逊、苹果、Facebook和谷歌利用自身的垄断力量，将这些公司与19世纪的石油和铁路巨头相提并论，并建议对反垄断法进行彻底改革。如果民主党下个月赢得国会两院，这可能会给科技巨头们带来麻烦。

Boeing’s annual outlook for the overall aerospace⁵ industry forecast an 11% drop in demand for commercial planes over the next decade, compared with last year’s forecast. Over the next 20 years, it predicts passenger-traffic growth will return to pre-pandemic levels of 4% a year.

波音公司对整个航空航天行业的年度展望预测，未来10年商用飞机的需求将比去年的预测下降11%。该组织预测，在未来20年里，客流量的增长将恢复到流感大流行前每年4%的水平。

Walmart at last found a buyer for Asda, a British supermarket chain that it bought in 1999 and has been trying to sell for more than two years. The new owner in the 6.8bn pounds ($8.7bn) deal is a consortium led by Zuber and Mohsin Issa. The brothers run eg Group, which operates petrol stations and food concessions⁶ across ten countries, and owns many Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises⁷ in Britain.

沃尔玛终于为英国连锁超市Asda找到了买家。Asda是沃尔玛在1999年收购的一家英国连锁超市，两年多来沃尔玛一直想要出售这家超市。这笔价值68亿英镑(87亿美元)的交易的买主是一个由Zuber和Mohsin Issa领导的财团。兄弟俩经营EG集团，该集团在10个国家经营加油站和食品特许经营，并在英国拥有许多肯德基连锁店。

Bristol-Myers Squibb made another big acquisition, agreeing to pay $13.1bn for MyoKardia, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialising in treatments for heart disease. Last year Bristol-Myers Squibb bought Celgene for $90bn, one of the largest-ever deals in the drug industry.

百时美施贵宝(Bristol-Myers Squibb)又进行了一笔大型收购，同意以131亿美元收购MyoKardia。MyoKardia是一家专注于心脏病治疗的临床生物制药公司。去年，百时美施贵宝以900亿美元收购了Celgene，这是制药业有史以来规模最大的交易之一。

Cineworld decided⁸ to close all its cinemas in America and Britain until next year, after the release date of “No Time To Die”, the next James Bond film, was again postponed⁹, until April. Already struggling as social-distancing keeps the crowds away from its venues¹⁰, Cineworld was banking¹¹ on what would have been this year’s biggest box-office draw. Other films have been delayed, some have gone straight to streaming. Many in the industry believe lavish¹² blockbusters need to be seen in cinemas first in order to create the all-important buzz.

Cineworld决定在明年前关闭位于美国和英国的所有电影院，因为下一部詹姆斯·邦德电影《No Time to Die》的上映日期再次被推迟到4月份。由于社交距离限制措施导致影院空空如也，Cineworld已经在勉强维持，该公司本来寄希望于这部有望今年最大票房亮点的影片。其他电影也被推迟上映，一些电影直接通过流媒体的途径上映。许多业内人士认为，为了制造最重要的轰动效应，豪华大片需要先在电影院上映。