New unemployment claims in the U.S. ticked up last week to the highest level since late August. (WSJ)
Fiat Chrysler and the union representing workers at Canadian factories reached a tentative contract agreement, averting a potential strike. (WSJ)
Walgreens Boots Alliance is shutting more U.S. stores than earlier planned after weak quarterly sales growth and slimmer profits. (WSJ)
Many countries around the world are screening people at their borders for the coronavirus. China is also inspecting incoming frozen fish. (WSJ)
China’s top economic-planning body is targeting Australian cotton, Australian industry groups say, the latest escalation in a diplomatic and trade row between the countries. (WSJ)
LVMH says growth in its big fashion brands was a bright spot as overall sales of its luxury goods fell 7% last quarter. (WSJ)
The Albertsons grocery chain won a bankruptcy auction for Kings Food Markets and Balducci’s. (WSJ)
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has divested his holdings in XPO Logistics, a postal contractor and his former employer. (Forbes)
Japanese electronics suppliers are getting a surge of orders from smartphone companies since the U.S. cut off access to Huawei Technologies components. (Nikkei Asian Review)
Foxconn Technology Group is ramping up enormous production capability for the Apple iPhone 12 in China’s Zhengzhou city. (South China Morning Post)
BMW will stop making its Mini Countryman automobile in the Netherlands by 2024. (Financial Times)
Hapag-Lloyd raised its annual earnings outlook after preliminary figures showed a sharp gain in third-quarter profit. (The Loadstar)
Singapore authorities charged a former supervisor at shipbuilder Keppel Fels and several subcontractors with bribery and other corruption charges. (Straits Times)
Israeli container line Zim named former Morgan Stanley executive Yair Seroussi chairman. (Lloyd’s List)
An unidentified company applied to build a 1.3 million-square-foot distribution center near Spokane, Wash., under a plan called “Project Fireball.” (Spokane Spokesman-Review)
Grocery supplier KeHE Distributors added a distribution center in between Baltimore and Wilmington, Del., its 16th in the U.S. (Supermarket News)
U.S. trucking regulators rejected a petition for looser hours-of-service restrictions for truckers who drive with pets. (FreightWaves)
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