PRESS DIGEST -Wall Street Journal - October 20
Oct 20 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Activist investor Jana Partners has built a stake in medical device maker Cooper COO.O, and plans to push for strategic alternatives, including a potential deal to combine its contact-lens unit with rival Bausch + Lomb BLCO.TO.
- Swiss building-materials supplier Holcim HOLN.S plans to acquire Xella for more than $2 billion to expand its building solutions business.
- China said its gross domestic product expanded 4.8% in the third quarter of 2025 compared with a year earlier.
- Bank of Japan policy board member Hajime Takata called for an interest-rate increase, saying that tariff-related concerns have eased and that the inflation goal is nearly met.
- Bolivia elected Rodrigo Paz as president on Sunday, ending two decades of socialist rule.
- President Trump said the U.S. would stop aid payments to Colombia because of the country's drug production.
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