President Trump said the US should have the world's lowest interest rates.

A delegation of strategic-business, product-planning and procurement chiefs from a major South Korean automaker visited Dong'an Power recently. They held in-depth talks on range‑extender powertrains, DHT hybrid drive systems and rotary engines, and reported broad technical consensus on the related technology directions.

China's National Bureau of Statistics released 1H data. Chen Wenling, senior researcher at the Contemporary China and World Research Institute, identified three market-relevant features: concurrent repair of existing stock and creation of new output — steady restoration of existing capacity amid a complex external environment alongside significant new output led by emerging productivity drivers; an overlay of stock-focused and incremental policies that materially supported economic repair and growth; and external-oriented growth running in parallel with domestic structural optimization. She described her overall assessment of 1H as strong and improving.