1. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was officially announced at 17:30 Beijing time on October 5. it was jointly won by Harvey (Harvey J. Alter), Michael Horton (Michael Houghton) and Charles Rice (Charles M. Rice), scientists from the United States, Britain and the United States, for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The three winners will share the prize of 10 million Swedish kronor.

2. On Monday, US time, all three major US stock indexes closed higher, with the Dow up 1.68%, the S & P 500 up 1.8%, and technology stocks accounting for the larger Nasdaq closed 2.32% higher. Technology stocks led most sectors on Monday. One of the main reasons for the marked improvement in risk appetite in the market is that US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would be discharged at 6:30 local time. Analysts say any news that the president is getting better will ease the uncertainty of the external environment.

3.Philippine Airlines has announced that it will cut 2700 jobs, or about 35 per cent of its total workforce, due to the continuing impact of COVID-19 ‘s epidemic on the aviation industry. Philippine Airlines said in a statement that due to the sharp drop in demand for air travel and the continued impact of relevant travel restrictions at home and abroad, the number of flights currently operating by the company is less than 15% of that before the outbreak, so layoffs and restructuring are “inevitable.”

4.Apple: it has stopped selling devices such as headphones and wireless speakers from competitors such as Sonos, Bose and Logitech on its website. When you enter Sonos, Bose and other brands on Apple’s Apple Store, you can no longer find any results, but only non-audio products such as keyboard cases and cameras appear in the search for Logitech. Rumor has it that Apple’s AirPods Studio will be launched by the end of 2020.

5.According to intelligence data from Sensor Tower Store, Douyin and overseas versions of TikTok earned more than $130 million in global App Store and Google Play in September 2020, 7.9 times more than in September last year, and once again topped the global mobile app (non-game) revenue list. Of this, about 89 per cent of revenue comes from the Chinese version of Douyin, the US market ranks second, contributing 6 per cent, and Turkey ranks third, accounting for 1 per cent. YouTube ranked second with nearly $85.5 million in revenue, up 56 per cent from the same period last year. 

6.Global sales of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars rebounded further in the third quarter of this year, mainly driven by demand from the Chinese market, according to data released by German carmaker Daimler on the 6th. About 223600 Mercedes-Benz passenger cars were sold in China in the third quarter, up 23.4% from a year earlier. The Chinese market has maintained a rapid recovery and continues to provide the main driving force for Mercedes-Benz passenger car sales.

7. In its report Poverty and shared Prosperity 2020, the World Bank predicted that the COVID-19 epidemic will increase the number of people living in extreme poverty by 88 million this year to 115 million, and this year the global extreme poverty rate will increase for the first time in 20 years. “extreme poverty” is defined as living on less than U$1.90 a day. The World Bank noted that without rapid, significant and substantive policy measures, the goal of global poverty eradication would not be achieved by 2030.

8.According to a report released by the Yves Institute for Economic Research, a German think-tank, and the European Center for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research, the global economy is expected to contract by 4.4% this year, and only China’s economy will achieve positive growth among the major economies. Experts in some developed economies believe that the most effective economic policy measure to deal with the epidemic crisis is to provide liquidity support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

9.United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs: the current total valuation of the global space economy is more than U$400 billion, and research by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the European Union shows that nearly 40% of the 17 sustainable development goals depend on Earth observation and global navigation satellite systems.