Interfax reports Kazakhstan has frozen assets of the Kashagan operator.

Colombian government issued a decree on the 23rd declaring a one-year national disaster to pre-position resources against a likely intensification of El Nifio in coming months, warning of potential severe, persistent shocks to water resources, food supplies and public electricity services. The decree tasks Colombia’s National Disaster Risk Management Unit to coordinate national, local and private-sector efforts focused on water conservation and supply, food security, energy transitions for rural and low-income households, public-health surveillance and forest-fire prevention.

英國7月製造業PMI初值 52.8，預期52，前值52.5。