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On July 27, the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a notice on further strengthening the safety management of urban bridges. The notice emphasizes strengthening bridge safety management during the flood season. Currently, the entire country has entered the flood season. Urban bridge management departments should strengthen coordination with meteorological, water resources, and natural resources departments to effectively carry out risk warnings and prevention and response work for extreme weather, water-related, and geological disasters. The focus should be on bridge foundation erosion, slope stability, and unobstructed drainage facilities, conducting a comprehensive investigation of flood control safety risks and hidden dangers. Active coordination with river management departments is required to promptly clear accumulated debris and large floating objects that may affect bridge safety from river channels, ensuring unobstructed flood passage.

July 27 - US airline stocks rose, with Alaska Airlines and United Airlines up about 4%, Delta Air Lines up 3.5%, JetBlue Airways up 6.5%, and Southwest Airlines up 2.4%; the S&P 1500 Passenger Airline Index rose 3.5%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 587.76 points higher, or 1.13%, at 52,535.01 on Monday, July 27; the S&P 500 opened 59.15 points higher, or 0.80%, at 7,471.11; and the Nasdaq Composite opened 255.55 points higher, or 1.02%, at 25,231.37.

Spotify: The previous issue has been resolved.

Goldman Sachs maintains its TTF natural gas price forecast of €60/MWh for the third quarter of 2026.

On July 27, Evergrande Auto (00708.HK) announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that, effective July 27, 2026, Chen Leyan has been appointed as a non-executive director; Lu Jiaqi, Chen Qingfeng, and Lu Sihao have been appointed as independent non-executive directors; and Peng Weihao (formerly Peng Weizheng) has been appointed as the company secretary. Trading in the company's shares will remain suspended until further notice.

ASML's share price in the Amsterdam market continues to decline, currently down more than 1%.

On July 27, Evergrande Property (06666.HK) issued an announcement in Hong Kong stating that the company had been informed by the liquidators that following the previous decision by a potential buyer not to proceed with the potential transaction, the liquidators continued discussions with several potential buyers regarding the potential transaction. These potential buyers include parties newly joining the process, as well as other parties who had previously participated in the process. The next step is to invite potential buyers to conduct due diligence on the Group; as of the date of this announcement, discussions regarding the potential transaction are still in the preliminary stage. The proposed timetable for the sale process has not yet been finalized, and the liquidators have not received any offers in the restarted sale process, nor have they entered into any legally binding agreements regarding the potential transaction.

ASML (ASML.O) shares gave back gains in pre-market trading, currently up about 0.35%.

NVIDIA: The company will leverage SSI’s insights into the future of artificial intelligence to collaborate on advancing the technology of NVIDIA’s current and future computing platforms.

According to the Wall Street Journal: Sources say Sutskever's SSI will gain significant access to Nvidia's GPUs, whereas previously it relied primarily on Google TPUs.

On July 27th, at the media roundtable of the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference, Guo Shougang, Director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that more than 20,000 intelligent connected vehicle test demonstration licenses have been issued nationwide, with over 57,000 kilometers of open test demonstration roads and a cumulative test mileage exceeding 220 million kilometers. In 20 pilot cities for "vehicle-road-cloud integration," more than 60,000 sets of various intelligent devices have been deployed, serving over 100,000 vehicles. Since the beginning of this year, the penetration rate of L2-level combined driving assistance functions in passenger vehicles has reached 70.5%, and the penetration rate of NOA (Navigate on Autopilot) functions in passenger vehicles has reached 34.2%. The first batch of L3-level conditionally automated driving models have begun operating on roads in specific areas.

Naver: The 200-megawatt AI factory is expected to utilize advanced AI infrastructure, including NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms.

International oil prices continue to decline, with Brent crude falling more than 9% intraday! A quick overview of the pre-market conversion prices of crude oil between domestic and international markets in one chart.

Romania will expel a Russian diplomat over a drone intrusion incident.

U.S. non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft rose 0.9% month-on-month in June, below the expected 0.8% and the previous month's figure revised from 1.40% to 1.9%.

U.S. durable goods orders excluding transportation rose 0.6% month-on-month in June, below the expected 0.8% and the previous figure revised from 1.40% to 1.8%.