The Eurozone unemployment rate was 6.4% in July, below the expected 6.3% and the previous figure revised from 6.30% to 6.4%.

Japan's finance minister Katayama said she could not comment when asked whether the yen's current exchange rate is appropriate.

1. SAIC-GM-Wuling's global sales reached 130,870 units in August, with cumulative overseas sales exceeding 1.6 million. 2. Leapmotor: Global deliveries reached 103,129 units in August, a year-on-year increase of 80.7%. 3. HarmonyOS delivered 42,101 new vehicles in August, with cumulative deliveries this year increasing by 10.8% year-on-year. 4. XPeng Group delivered 39,107 new vehicles in August, a year-on-year increase of 4%. 5. Li Auto delivered 37,679 vehicles in August and will launch the new generation Li MEGA and Li i9 in September. 6. JiKe officially announced that it delivered 36,981 new vehicles in August, a year-on-year increase of 109.8%. 7. NIO delivered 35,836 vehicles in August, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%. 8. JiKe: August deliveries reached 36,981 new vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 109.8%. 9. Xiaomi Auto: August 2026 deliveries exceeded 30,000 units; full preparations are underway for the launch and delivery of the Pengcheng platform. 10. DeepBlue Auto's global sales reached 28,659 units in August, with cumulative sales approaching one million. 11. Volkswagen responds to complaints against Xingyu Auto: A special investigation has been launched. 12. Ministry of Commerce: Deepen the pilot reform of automobile circulation and consumption, and accelerate the removal of unreasonable restrictive measures in the automobile circulation and consumption sector. 13. China Automobile Dealers Association: The automobile dealer inventory warning index for August 2026 was 62.3%. 14. BYD's new generation 4D millimeter-wave radar chip enters mass production. 15. The Zhijie RX has begun L3-level autonomous driving access testing. 16. Shaanxi Province provides financial subsidies for the construction of high-power charging facilities for electric vehicles. 17. Ford China's first pure electric commercial vehicle exported to developed markets such as Europe, the all-new Ford Transit City, rolled off the production line at Jiangling Xiaolan plant. 18. Russia approves new version of automotive industry development strategy.