FITCH says limited UK fiscal space is likely to constrain significant policy easing.

On July 8 the Shenzhen municipal party committee reviewed 1H citywide industrial investment and ordered accelerated advancement of key projects. The committee urged prioritizing the real economy and manufacturing to stabilize industrial-investment growth and lay a foundation for the 15th Five-Year Plan and longer-term development. It called on authorities to seize the window from rapid AI and other frontier-technology iteration and faster market/demand formation by intensifying industry research, project planning and investment in core and frontier areas to forge new high-quality growth drivers. The city also directed exploration of innovative investment models, fuller use of financial tools, leveraging state capital and SOEs as resource-integration hubs, and measures to attract social/private capital into major projects to speed cultivation of new productive capacity.

NewsNation reported President Trump told reporters Wednesday he believes he is "No.1 on Iran's assassination list" and said he is unbothered because he is "doing his job." Asked why he would not use the new Air Force One, he said the new jet is being flown to several European bases for display and that he will return by conventional means, planning to fly an older Air Force One from Turkey to the UK.