Market sources: the UK's request to attend post-Brexit meetings has provoked discontent within the EU.

On the morning of July 3 HITHINK ROYALFLUSH's mobile app experienced a service outage, with users reporting quote lag, community pages failing to load, stock search failures and slow or frozen minute and K-line charts. The outage trended on Weibo and some users said servers were unresponsive for about 30 minutes. HITHINK ROYALFLUSH said services have been restored and the cause is under investigation.

As of July 2, Shanghai Stock Exchange margin balance was CNY1.515 tln, down CNY4.724bn from the previous trading day; Shenzhen was CNY1.476 tln, down CNY1.721bn. Combined margin balance was CNY2.991 tln, down CNY6.445bn.