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July 27 - According to Xunze (03317.HK), the company has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Kaihong Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd. The two parties will carry out comprehensive cooperation in three major areas: AI data infrastructure, terminal data tokenization application, and token business model.

Apple's (AAPL.O) system status webpage indicates that the outage has been resolved for all affected services, including the App Store.

On July 27th, Yu Weining, Chief Statistician of the Industrial Statistics Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, interpreted the data, stating that in the first half of the year, against the backdrop of stable industrial production growth and a continued rebound in industrial product prices, the operating revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 6.5% year-on-year, 1.5 percentage points faster than in the first quarter. The accelerated growth in operating revenue led to a 18.7% year-on-year increase in profits for industrial enterprises above designated size, 3.2 percentage points faster than in the first quarter. Looking at the three major sectors, profits in the mining and manufacturing industries increased by 33.5% and 20.1% respectively, accelerating by 17.3 and 1.0 percentage points respectively compared to the first quarter; while profits in the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water decreased by 4.2%. In June, the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide increased by 15.1% year-on-year.

On July 27th, the highest 7-day annualized yield of Tencent Wealth Management's "Current Account +" was 1.4850%, and the lowest was 0.7320%. The highest 7-day annualized yield of WeChat Pay's "Lingqian Tong" was 1.0130%, and the lowest was 0.9220%. The highest 7-day annualized yield of Alipay's "Yu'ebao" was 1.0610%, and the lowest was 0.9520%.

As of 09:30 Beijing time, WTI crude oil futures fell 5.92% and U.S. natural gas futures fell 1.80%.

On Monday, July 27, the Hang Seng Index opened 30.54 points higher, or 0.12%, at 24,993.77; the Hang Seng Tech Index opened 17.79 points higher, or 0.38%, at 4,647.3; the H-share Index opened 13.39 points higher, or 0.16%, at 8,284.45; and the Red Chip Index opened 2.66 points higher, or 0.06%, at 4,121.87.

July 27th - NVIDIA today posted on its official blog that as engineering teams dedicate themselves to developing increasingly complex CPUs, GPUs, and AI systems, the complexity of modern chip design is constantly increasing. To address this challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating with Kadden Electronics and Synopsys to optimize critical electronic design automation (EDA) applications for the NVIDIA Vera CPU. NVIDIA is currently deploying Vera in its EDA workflows for developing next-generation CPUs and GPUs, demonstrating how high-performance CPU architectures can help accelerate some of the industry's most challenging engineering workloads. Looking ahead, NVIDIA plans to launch the next-generation Rosa processor based on Vera, featuring the NVIDIA Rigel core, while continuing to optimize EDA applications across its CPU roadmap.

On July 27, Apple's system status page indicated that several services, including the App Store, were experiencing outages. Other affected services included Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Music subscription service, AppleCare, and Apple School Manager.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: Enhancing growth potential and competitive advantages will boost market confidence in the yen.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: The Bank of Japan is responsible for deciding on specific monetary policy measures.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: Exchange rates fluctuate due to a variety of factors, making it difficult to judge the impact of any single factor.

July 27 (Futures News) - Crude oil prices opened sharply lower, and the pullback in costs dampened confidence in fuel oil prices. Downstream traders adopted a cautious wait-and-see approach, resulting in a quiet and consolidating market. It is expected that refinery shipments will face downward pressure today, with market buying activity remaining subdued and actual trading activity slowing down.

International oil prices plunged in early trading on Monday as the suspension of attacks between the US and Iran ignited expectations of a ceasefire. A chart provides a quick overview of the pre-market conversion of domestic and international crude oil prices.

July 27 (Futures News) – A sudden de-escalation in the Middle East has led to a drop in international oil prices. With weak cost support, PX prices are expected to follow crude oil's decline today.

As of 8:30 on July 27, 2026, WTI crude oil and international spot silver were among the most volatile commodities. A chart reviews the overnight price changes in the international market and their corresponding theoretical mappings in the domestic market.

On July 27, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) further tightened monetary policy on Monday to address anticipated inflationary pressures from persistently high energy prices, potentially driven by renewed tensions in the Middle East. The MAS, using the exchange rate as its primary policy tool rather than interest rates, announced a "very slight" upward adjustment to the slope of the Singapore dollar's nominal effective exchange rate policy band, while keeping the band's width and center unchanged. Of the 18 analysts surveyed, four expected an increase in the slope, one predicted a readjustment of the band's center, and the remaining 13 expected no change. "External price pressures are expected to persist and transmit more broadly to domestic consumer prices in the coming period," the MAS said in a statement.

The Singapore dollar edged higher against the US dollar in the short term after the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) raised the slope of its exchange rate band.

Japanese government: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will hold a press conference at 09:00 GMT (17:00 Beijing time).