Health scandal in court. The US justice system has launched an investigation into the responsibility of pharmaceutical companies in the opiate crisis, assigning Teva, Mallinckrodt, Johnson & Johnson, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, AmerisourceBergen and McKesson among others. This is enough to shake the sector once again in the United States yesterday on the stock market. The criminal aspect will be added to an already complex civil aspect. The complainants accuse the firms concerned, not all of which are mentioned, of aggressive commercial practices to sell analgesics that have made part of the population dependent.

Facebook acquires the video game studio Beat Games. The group is making important strides in the field of virtual reality, games and music. It announced on Tuesday, through its start-up Oculus, the acquisition of the Beat Games studio, which is behind the virtual reality video game "Beat Saber".

Washing-machine. Shareholder advocacy firms are calling for a greater purge on the board of directors of Westpac Bank, after the departure of the president and CEO following major failures in the institution's anti-money laundering policy. In the same vein, the Swedish bank SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) is brocaded by a Swedish public television investigative program for its blurry links with several high-risk clients in Northern Europe, Russia and the Baltic States.

Chip shortage. Dell has reduced its forecasts due to a bottleneck in processor delivery, resulting in a decline of about 4% in share price after the US close. The world's third largest PC company is facing a shortage that Intel had already described earlier this month.

Solo flight. The U.S. Civil Aviation Agency has decided that Boeing will no longer participate in the certification of the B737 MAX and will authorize each aircraft itself, which could delay the return to service process. In the past, the FAA had shared the issuance of certificates with aircraft manufacturers to facilitate processes.

Disney can hold the distance. Disney+, Walt Disney's new streaming service, has been downloaded 15.5 million times since its launch two weeks ago, with an offer at $6.99 per month, according to Apptopia data, with a high conversion rate. The dynamics of the offer had positively surprised analysts shortly after the launch. Netflix, the number one in the industry in the United States, has just over 60 million subscribers.

In other news. Audi, the Volkswagen subsidiary, will cut 9,500 jobs over the next five years as part of a reorganization. Rio Tinto is investing $749 million to improve a mine in Australia. Ems-Chemie sells its airbag release business to Hirtenberger. Stadler Rail wins a contract worth CHF 126.4 million with the Azerbaijan Railway Company for 10 Flirt trains.