The Federal Reserve left its policy rate unchanged, knocking down odds of a hike and sending the dollar and U.S. Treasury yields lower, which pushed spot gold from losses to a gain exceeding 1%. The committee recorded three dissenting votes. Market participants said near-term direction will hinge on the Fed’s post-meeting press conference; after briefly dipping below $4,000/oz, gold may have temporarily avoided further downside. As of 02:16, spot gold was up 1.2% at $4,076.41 per ounce.

美国至7月24日当周EIA成品油进口 18.6万桶/日，前值28万桶/日。

CME plans to introduce futures tied to sports events, extending the event-contract model it and FanDuel used for equity-index, commodity, crypto and economic products such as GDP and CPI. Those event contracts have recorded cumulative volume of about 100 million contracts since their Dec 2025 launch, indicating scale and a strategic push into new retail derivatives. The FutureSports product will convert professional and college sports data into standardized indices aimed at teams, sponsors, broadcasters, insurers and asset managers; CME’s stated aims are to shift sports pricing toward regulated price discovery and risk management and to attract retail users who do not currently trade futures. If approved, sports-linked trading could become a new growth channel for prediction markets and futures exchanges and pressure traditional sports-betting platforms, but regulators are likely to challenge whether the contracts amount to repackaged gambling. CME CEO Duffy has said clearer rules are needed to separate risk management and event trading from binary betting.