US July University of Michigan Current Conditions Index (preliminary) 54.9; estimate 48.7; prior 47.7.

Six ministries led by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued a '15th Five-Year' plan for soil, groundwater and agricultural-rural ecological environment protection. The plan sets five priority tasks: tighten risk control over construction land, strengthen ecological protection of farmland, deepen coordinated prevention and control of groundwater pollution, advance rural (beautiful countryside) construction, and enhance governance effectiveness. It allocates major projects including a soil pollution source-prevention engineering program and a special soil remediation program for chemical-site plots vacated within 1 km of rivers, and mandates a second national soil-pollution survey and a nationwide groundwater-pollution investigation and assessment.

許多分析師預計，今年下半年股市的上漲行情將延續從大型科技股向外擴散的趨勢。僅過去數週，市場風向已日漸清晰：投資者正將目光投向超大規模企業和芯片製造商之外的領域。 在這輪板塊輪動中，一個受益的領域是鐵路、航空和卡車運輸公司——它們運送着支撐經濟運行的貨物與物資。道瓊斯運輸業平均指數追蹤20家大型運輸企業，週四上漲3.2%，7月迄今累計漲幅達5%。該板塊向來被視爲經濟健康狀況的晴雨表，近期更創下自1991年以來最佳年度開局。醫療保健是另一個錄得上漲的板塊。標普500醫療保健指數過去一個月上漲6.2%，在標普500指數的11個行業組別中表現最佳。