Fed Governor Barr said people feel frustrated and uncertain because inflation is too high.

US Redbook weekly chain-store sales YoY for the week through Sept. 26: 8.2% vs 7.6% prior.

Shanghai RAAS said on Sept. 28 it is pursuing the purchase of a CDMO plant held by Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals (China) as a "strategic positioning" move to close gaps in its innovative-drug industrialization capability. Vice chairman and general manager Xu Jun said the company's push into innovative drugs is not a "do-or-die" gamble; R&D will be funded by stable cash flow from its blood-products business, via rolling, measured investments, and the company will not channel all blood-products profits into innovative drugs at once.