據華爾街日報：在7月4日美國獨立日前幾天，美國農業部長羅林斯的幕僚長與多家食品零售商進行了溝通，詢問了這些企業在假期週末來臨前的牛肉售價情況。在美國農業部與沃爾瑪(WMT.N)的通話中，沃爾瑪表示，其原本就計劃在夏季下調多種商品的價格，其中包括牛肉。

Spot silver fell more than 2% intraday to $60.78/oz.

China's National Financial Regulatory Administration and the Shanghai municipal government issued measures to accelerate construction of the Shanghai International Reinsurance Center. The measures endorse reinsurance firms raising capital via equity increases and issuing capital-supplementary instruments to strengthen both endogenous capital accumulation and external capital replenishment. Regulators will guide insurers to concentrate reinsurance capacity on major national projects, strategic emerging industries and social-welfare exposures to boost risk protection, and support reinsurers using technical expertise to provide insurance-sector risk-reduction services.