Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bullock said the meeting did not discuss rate cuts and only considered either rate hikes or leaving the cash rate unchanged.

CATL’s Jiangxi Jianxiawo lithium mine: the mining project’s EIA public notice has closed and the file will move to the approval submission stage. Industry and EIA sources say only the mining EIA is being advanced; the supporting concentrator and tailings storage require separate EIA amendment because of the mineral-type change, and there are no public filings yet—those amendments remain a material hurdle to full resumption. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s EIA credit platform shows the project name changed from “ceramic clay (including lithium) mine” to “lithium mine” and the project category shifted from 08--012 (chemical mineral/non-metallic mining) to 07--010 (common non-ferrous/precious/rare and rare-earth metals mining). A legal source said the change from non-metallic to rare-metal mining alters the EIA classification and could imply different environmental risk profiles (pollutant types, ecological impact pathways) versus the original EIA. Separately, the project’s tailings storage safety production permit may need extension: Credit China records show the tailings permit was approved on 1 Apr 2025, valid until 14 Jan 2027.

哈萨克斯坦央行：7月份的净黄金和外汇储备为617.24亿美元（环比变化3.2%）。