The bottom line

■■ Meat supplier JBS paid

$11 million in Bitcoin to cybercriminals that held up processing plants in the U.S. for ransom earlier this month, more than twice what Colonial Pipeline paid to recover its systems from a ransomware attack in May.

The Wall Street Journal

■■ An auction winner paid more than $28 million for an 11-minute ride into space alongside Jeff Bezos. Nearly 7,600 people from 159 countries registered to bid on the July 20 flight aboard the New Shepard—a rocket developed by Bezos’ company, Blue Origin.

The New York Times

■■ Lumber futures fell 18 percent last week, the biggest decline for most-active futures in records going back to 1986. The price of lumber has now dropped almost 40 percent from the record high reached on May 10, as sawmills have begun to catch up to demand.

Bloomberg.com

■■ The world’s top commodity traders said this week they expect oil to return to $100 per barrel for the first time since 2014. Prices have reached their highest in two years, as Brent crude moved above $73 a barrel.

Financial Times

■■ The Girl Scouts have 15 million boxes of unsold cookies after Covid-19 nixed troops’ traditional cookie booths.

The Girl Scouts normally sell around 200 million boxes of cookies per year, or about $800 million worth.

Associated Press

■■ Total charitable donations rose 5 percent to $471.4 billion in 2020, a record level, according to the annual Giving USA Foundation report. Giving by companies fell

6.1 percent to $16.9 billion, which the report attributed to a decline in corporate profits and the economic slump.

The New York Times