Thursday, 06 August 2026
Business news today spans supply chains, boardrooms and orbit. In the U.S., a widening salmonella outbreak has been traced to jalapeños imported from Sinaloa, Mexico, sickening at least 345 people across 27 states and putting fresh pressure on food distributors and restaurant chains to tighten sourcing. Corporate dealmaking was just as brisk: easyJet agreed to a £5.7 billion takeover by Apollo after rival bidder Castlelake dropped out, closing a long stretch of uncertainty for the budget airline. At Diageo, weaker sales and profits prompted a sweeping turnaround plan, with management targeting roughly $1 billion in savings and warning of significant operational change. Meanwhile, SpaceX was in focus on two fronts: insiders gained the ability to sell as much as $101 billion in stock after a lockup expired, while South Korea’s Danuri orbiter delivered striking before-and-after images of the Moon following the impact of stray Falcon 9 debris.
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