Japan July merchandise trade balance (non-seasonally adjusted) -634.5 bln yen, vs. -680.0 bln expected. June trade balance revised from -406.9 bln to -409.9 bln.

The Shanghai municipal government office issued the Digital Shanghai "15th Five" plan, directing deeper infrastructure build-out and expansion of computing capacity. The plan mandates strengthening privacy-preserving computing hardware, general-purpose compute and supporting storage, and improving cybersecurity and test/validation networks to enable on-chain business scale-up. It calls for coordinated construction of customs, tax and other ministries’ trusted data service centers, including overseas trusted data centers. The plan also requires common-platform capabilities for data resource access, use, management and security to support data-chain integration, plus a cloud‑chain integrated operations, maintenance, resource, disaster-recovery and scheduling/command management system. A distributed node management console will be built to enable simplified cross‑cloud, cross‑domain node deployment and access.

上海黄金交易所黄金T+D 8月19日（周三）晚盘盘初下跌0.97%报944.95元/克； 上海黄金交易所白银T+D 8月19日（周三）晚盘盘初上涨0.31%报15459.0元/千克。