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Frontrunning: October 10

  • Thousands Flee as Deadly Fires Ravage California Wine Country (WSJ)
  • North Korean missiles will be able to reach U.S. after modernization: Ifax cites Russian lawmaker (Reuters)
  • Trump Allies Fear Corker Feud Threatens Tax Plan (BBG)
  • Spain Readies Forces Able to Seize Catalan Leader  (BBG)
  • Catalans Face Day of Reckoning (BBG)
  • P&G Shareholder Vote on Peltz Seat Is Down to the Wire (WSJ)
  • Puerto Rico’s $74 Billion Burden Left It Helpless When Maria Hit (BBG)
  • Brain Drain Index: The Smartest Americans Are Heading West (BBG)
  • Pfizer Explores Possible Sale, Spinoff of Consumer Healthcare Business (WSJ)
  • Russia accuses U. S. of pretending to fight Islamic State in Syria, Iraq (Reuters)
  • Honeywell to Spin Off Units Into Two Stand-Alone Companies (WSJ)
  • Kim Jong Un's summer spot: Where fun meets guns (Reuters)
  • Canada's Trudeau to tell Trump: we're not your problem at NAFTA (Reuters)
  • Weinstein Co. Eyes New Name Amid Scandal (WSJ)
  • Uber says giving UK drivers worker rights would cost tens of millions of pounds (Reuters)
  • Cryan Is Losing Support of Top Deutsche Bank Owners (BBG)
  • Netflix fends off criticism over Canada investment (Reuters)
  • Wal-Mart Wants to Break Into the Ivy League Recruiting Circuit (BBG)
  • OPEC Secretary General urges U.S. shale oil producers to help cap global supply (Reuters)
  • Google Unearths Russia-Backed Ads Related to Politics on Its Platforms (WSJ)

Overnight Media Digest:

WSJ

- Bowing to mounting pressure, General Electric is giving activist investor Trian Fund Management a seat on its board as the struggling industrial company looks for ways to revamp its operations and reverse its slumping stock price. on.wsj.com/2wKfTQo

- The Trump administration is formally withdrawing federal limits on carbon emissions at power plants, triggering the next stage of what is likely to be a years long fight over the government's centerpiece regulation for slowing climate change. on.wsj.com/2wJpLtu

- More than a dozen wildfires in Northern California destroyed at least 2,000 houses and businesses, killed 10 people and turned parts of the state's bucolic wine country into an inferno. on.wsj.com/2wK0jnK

- Weinstein Co is considering changing its name as it moves to distance itself from former co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, the larger-than-life Hollywood mogul who was once the studio's biggest asset, but who has become its biggest liability. on.wsj.com/2wK0pvC

- Google found that Russian-linked entities bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of politically motivated ads on its platform before and after the U.S. election. on.wsj.com/2wK0yza

- ESPN suspended network host Jemele Hill for violating its social media policy, after she advocated a boycott of Dallas Cowboys sponsors who are also ESPN sponsors. on.wsj.com/2wJpQ0g

- Unilever pulled an online video ad for its blockbuster body wash brand Dove and apologized after critics called the spot racist. on.wsj.com/2wKhCW0

 

FT

- Singapore’s City Developments on Monday offered 552.5p a share to buy 35 percent of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Plc it does not already own.

- BAE Systems is expected to cut more than 1,000 jobs. The move will hit the company’s centre of air combat expertise at Warton in Lancashire.

- Royal Mail is to lodge an application with the High Court for an injunction in a bid to stop the first nationwide strike hitting the UK postal service since it was privatised.

- Britain Prime Minister Theresa May was told by a group of 10 business leaders, who met her on Monday, that a transition period after Brexit was absolutely essential.

 

NYT

- General Motors said it had acquired Strobe, a company that specializes in laser-imaging technology geared toward enhancing the development of autonomous vehicles. nyti.ms/2wJJXLM

- The Los Angeles Times said it had named Lewis D'Vorkin, previously a senior executive at Forbes, its top editor. nyti.ms/2wJqafB

- Alphabet Inc's Google has found evidence that Russian agents bought ads on its wide-ranging networks in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential campaign. nyti.ms/2wJAJPY

- With competitors such as Airbnb nipping at their heels, Marriott International Inc, with 30 hotel brands, including Starwood and Ritz-Carlton, and other hotel companies are marshaling their clout to attract sports stars, including professional surfers, and even a National Geographic photographer. nyti.ms/2wKlA0C

- The Trump administration announced on Monday it would take formal steps to repeal former U.S. President Barack Obama's signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the Clean Power Plan, setting up a bitter fight over the future of America's efforts to tackle global warming. nyti.ms/2wJkBxD

 

Canada

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

** After facing widespread criticism from key players in Canada's cultural industries, Netflix Inc has started a public relations campaign to "set the record straight" about its pledge to spend C$500 million ($400 million) on Canadian productions over the next five years. tgam.ca/2y6X3XC

** Ottawa has chosen nine industry consortiums that will qualify to receive C$950 million under the Liberal government's flagship innovation initiative known as its "superclusters" program, The Globe and Mail has learned. tgam.ca/2y6tZzn

** Canadian special forces have played a central role in hunting down, detecting and dismantling stockpiles of chemical weapons used by Islamic State militants in Iraq, according to sources with knowledge of the top-secret operations. tgam.ca/2y75DWh

** The federal government is warning it will impose tougher rules for companies involved in oil and gas, mining and forestry that are working in the boreal forest unless provinces act to protect endangered caribou. tgam.ca/2y70q0I

NATIONAL POST

** The secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, says the military alliance will be there to protect Canada, if called upon, in the event of a nuclear threat from North Korea. bit.ly/2y7ke4c

 

Britain

The Times

The average rental price for new tenancies rose to 927 pounds ($1,218) a month in September, compared with 908 pounds in the same month last year, suggesting that rents have not yet reached the peak of affordability, despite rising inflation, sluggish wage growth and economic uncertainty. bit.ly/2fWTDMh

Statoil ASA has highlighted its continued appetite for investing in the North Sea after finding an oil deposit that could contain up to 130 million barrels. bit.ly/2ySVWYk

The Guardian

Former British prime minister David Cameron has taken a job with the electronic payments firm First Data Corp, his first major private sector job since leaving office. bit.ly/2zaiyV6

Britain's switch to greener energy will take another significant step forward this week with the opening of an industrial-scale battery site in Sheffield. bit.ly/2fVtT2M

The Telegraph

The UK government is under scrutiny by European competition authorities over allegations of providing illegal state aid to BT Group Plc via the business rates regime, amid plans to boost investment in Britain's broadband infrastructure with new tax breaks. bit.ly/2yc4Ked

The majority owner of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Plc has moved to take the company private with a bid that values the UK-listed business at 1.8 billion pounds. bit.ly/2yBCPpz

Sky News

In an interview for Sky News, eBay Inc's UK Vice President Rob Hattrell said that Brexit was "an opportunity" for the companies that used eBay's trading platform. bit.ly/2g7EETA

BAE Systems Plc, Britain's biggest defence contractor, is to axe more than 1,000 jobs this week in a bitter blow for Britain's manufacturing industry. bit.ly/2y74bAQ

The Independent

Royal Mail Plc has said that it will lodge an application with the High Court for an injunction to prevent a 48-hour strike from happening, in a dispute over pensions and pay. ind.pn/2gottTw

Tens of thousands of airline passengers have been told their flights have been cancelled by the latest French air traffic control strikes. The main air-traffic controllers' unions are stopping work as part of a national strike against the labour reform policies of President Emmanuel Macron. ind.pn/2g6Jhg

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