At the 23:00 close, China's most-active futures contracts were mixed. Pulp rose over 2%; coking coal, benzene and coke fell more than 2%.

July 9 — Shandong held a robot and intelligent equipment industry matchmaking event in Jinan. The China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute and the Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology released a Shandong robot and intelligent equipment industry brand matrix and announced the province's first batch of 26 key embodied-intelligence robot training sites. The event inaugurated the Shandong Robot and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance and the Shandong Robot Standardization Committee, and included signing of public-service projects such as an intelligent robot transmission-system testing center. Leading firms Youbote, Guanglun Intelligent and Zhiyuan Robotics signed strategic regional cooperation agreements. Jinan also set up two provincial-level robot industry funds for its central district and start-up zone.

韓國央行行長申鉉鬆：將與其他中央銀行保持持續溝通，以討論市場情況。