Canadian investors' net purchases of foreign securities were -CAD30.63 bln in July, versus CAD35.43 bln previously.

China's acting deputy permanent representative to the UN, Sun Lei, said at a UN Security Council public meeting on Afghanistan on the 16th that China urges the international community to strengthen contact and dialogue with the Afghan government. He said Afghanistan has been broadly stable over the past five years but still faces complex challenges in humanitarian aid, development, women's rights and counterterrorism, and called on parties to take a comprehensive, objective view, value existing engagement, pursue patient, good-faith, pragmatic communication that respects Afghanistan's national conditions and development stage, and help facilitate its gradual reintegration into the international community.

伦敦金属交易所(LME)：锡库存减少25吨，锌库存增加1575吨，铅库存减少2750吨，铝库存减少1000吨，镍库存持平，铜库存增加1750吨。