Cavendish bananas in Colombia Photographer: Laurent Vautrin/Dole
本篇是本周二 11月28日的彭博推送，由百度翻译完成翻译工作。
01 译文
for 60 consecutive days 持续了60天
the longest downward streak 最长下跌
feeling the pinch 感受到拧痛
a bevy of 一群
fork over 支付，付钱
fusarium odoratissimum 臭镰刀菌
fusarium 镰刀菌
美国各地的汽油价格已经连续60天下跌。这是一年多来持续时间最长的一次下跌，正好赶上假日购物季。既然司机们没有在加油站花那么多钱，零售商们希望他们能把节省下来的钱交给购物中心。根据美国汽车协会的数据，现在一加仑汽油的平均价格为3.25美元，比9月中旬的峰值低了60多美分，比去年同期便宜了约30美分。在14个州，平均价格现在不到每加仑3美元。在减缓全球变暖的斗争中，较低的油价并不完全是好消息，但它们可能会受到乔·拜登总统的欢迎，他的连任竞选在一定程度上是基于经济在疫情中的韧性、创纪录的低失业率和稳步放缓的通货膨胀。虽然一些民意调查显示，大多数消费者还没有意识到最后一点，但较低的天然气价格几乎是最引人注目的。本周末，有一个迹象表明，现金已经从加油站流向了PlayStation：美国消费者在黑色星期五期间的在线消费达到了创纪录的98亿美元--Natasha Solo Lyons
可以肯定的是，尽管加油站有好消息，美国人仍然感受到了高昂价格的压力。在经历了多年的通货膨胀之后，美国消费者仍然肩负着几十年来从未有过的负担。现在，购买一个家庭在疫情前用100美元就能负担得起的商品和服务需要119.27美元。自2020年初以来，价格上涨幅度与全球卫生灾难前整整10年的涨幅差不多。以下是过去几年美国生活成本的变化。
由于公司推迟归还借来的石油，补充美国紧急石油储备的努力正在放缓。壳牌（Shell）、雪佛龙（Chevron）和道达尔能源（TotalEnergies）是过去两年中作为交换计划的一部分借入政府石油的九家公司之一。尽管这三家公司本应在今明两年偿还原油，但它们获得了美国的批准，将约500万桶的回报推迟到2024年和2025年。
以色列和哈马斯星期一同意将战争停火延长至星期四上午，此前双方就释放加沙激进组织劫持的更多人质和被监禁在以色列的巴勒斯坦人进行了谈判。拜登政府和其他政府希望将战斗的暂时停止转变为永久和平。当局表示，自10月7日哈马斯袭击以来，战斗已造成15000多名巴勒斯坦人和1200多名以色列人死亡。
黑石集团（Blackstone）的史蒂夫·施瓦茨曼（Steve Schwarzman）表示，随着各国央行对加息的积极性降低，交易量开始反弹，他的公司正在关注欧洲各地的房地产购买机会。
从去年的熊市中走出来，受挫的投资者向专注于股息的交易所交易基金注入了600多亿美元。11个月后，这一交易开始失灵。最大的股息ETF并没有在风暴中提供庇护，而是被痴迷于科技的市场抛在了后面。
TikTok的所有者字节跳动（ByteDance）将在游戏领域裁员数百人，并关闭其展示品牌Nuverse，这是对该行业的一次重大退出，将胜利拱手让给了竞争对手腾讯控股（Tencent Holdings）。字节跳动将解雇数百人，解除正在开发的项目，并权衡现有游戏的潜在销售。
时装设计师兼电视名人Jenna Lyons正与黑石集团的一位高管联手成立一家新的品牌代理公司。Jonny Bauer领导着这家私募股权巨头的品牌战略小组，他正在组建他的整个团队来创办FundamentalCo。里昂，J.Crew的前总裁，将作为执行创意总监加盟。
全球99%的香蕉出口都是卡文迪许香蕉，但卡文迪什香蕉有一个问题——它对真菌非常敏感。这种真菌正在进行中。热带第4种，也被称为气味镰刀菌或TR4，在东南亚的香蕉种植园肆虐多年。2013年，它在约旦被发现。不久之后，它蔓延到非洲。现在，为了拯救香蕉，公司正转向基因改造，以在为时已晚之前提高卡文迪许的适应力。
Bloomberg Green出席COP28：世界各国领导人将于12月4-5日齐聚迪拜，努力加快全球气候行动。在联合国气候变化大会的背景下，彭博社将召集来自非政府组织、政府间组织、企业和学术界的企业领导人、政府官员和行业专家参加活动和对话，重点是制定解决方案，以支持COP28提出的目标。
02 原文
Gasoline prices across America have fallen for 60 consecutive days. It’s the longest downward streak in more than a year and one which has arrived just in time for the holiday shopping season. Now that drivers aren’t forking over so much cash at the pump, retailers are hoping they’ll hand over the savings at the mall instead. A gallon of gasoline now costs $3.25 on average, more than 60 cents below the year’s peak in mid-September and about 30 cents cheaper than this time last year, according to data from the American Automobile Association. In 14 states, average prices are now less than $3 a gallon. Cheaper pump prices aren’t exactly good news in the struggle to slow global warming, but they’re likely welcome by President Joe Biden, whose reelection campaign has been based in part on the economy’s resilience through the pandemic, record low unemployment and steadily slowing inflation. While some polls indicate that last bit has yet to register with most consumers, lower gas prices are about as high profile as it gets. And one sign that cash is already flowing from gas stations to PlayStations came this weekend: US consumers spent a record $9.8 billion online during Black Friday. —Natasha Solo-Lyons
To be sure, Americans are still feeling the pinch of high prices regardless of good news at the pump. After years of inflation, US consumers are still shouldering a burden unlike any seen in decades. It now requires $119.27 to buy the same goods and services a family could afford with $100 before the pandemic. Since early 2020, prices have risen about as much as they had in the full 10 years preceding the global health catastrophe. Here’s a look at how much living in the US costs has changed in the past few years.
Efforts to refill the US emergency oil reserve are being slowed by companies that are delaying the return of oil they borrowed. Shell, Chevron and TotalEnergies were among nine companies that borrowed government oil as part of an exchange program over the past two years. Though they were due to repay the crude this year and next, the three companies received US approval to delay about 5 million barrels in returns until 2024 and 2025.
Israel and Hamas agreed Monday to extend a cease-fire in their war until Thursday morning, following negotiations over the release of more hostages held by the militant group in Gaza and Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. The Biden administration and other governments are hoping to transform the temporary halt in fighting, which authorities say have killed more than 15,000 Palestinians and more than 1,200 Israelis since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, into a permanent peace.
Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman said his firm is eyeing a bevy of buying opportunities in real estate across Europe as
central banks become less aggressive with rate hikes, allowing deal volumes to begin to bounce back.
Reeling from last year’s bear market, beaten-up investors sent more than $60 billion to exchange-traded funds focusing on dividends. Eleven months later, the trade is misfiring. Rather than give shelter in a storm, the largest dividend ETFs have been left behind by a tech-obsessed market.
TikTok owner ByteDance is to cut hundreds of jobs in gaming and wind down its showpiece brand Nuverse in a major withdrawal from the sector, handing a victory to rival Tencent Holdings. ByteDance will fire several hundred people, unwind projects under development and weigh potential sales of existing titles.
Fashion designer and TV personality Jenna Lyons is joining forces with a Blackstone executive to launch a new brand agency. Jonny Bauer, who led the private equity giant’s brand strategy group, is
spinning out his entire team to start FundamentalCo. Lyons, a former president of J. Crew, will join as executive creative director.
Some 99% of global banana exports are Cavendish bananas, but the Cavendish has a problem—it’s highly susceptible to a fungus. And that fungus is on the march. Tropical Race 4, also known as fusarium odoratissimum or TR4, tore through banana plantations in Southeast Asia for years. Then in 2013, it was found in Jordan. Soon after, it spilled into Africa. Now, to save the bananas, companies are turning to genetic modification to increase the Cavendish’s resilience before it’s too late.
Bloomberg Green at COP28: World leaders will gather in Dubai on Dec.4-5 in an effort to accelerate global climate action. Against the backdrop of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Bloomberg will convene corporate leaders, government officials and industry specialists from NGOs, IGOs, business and academia for events and conversations focused on creating solutions to support the goals set forth at COP28.
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