Masco Corp shares fell 11.5% in premarket trading after Q2 sales missed expectations.

European equities closed mixed on July 29 (Wed): Germany's DAX fell 34.71 points (-0.14%) to 25,457.88; the UK’s FTSE 100 rose 36.18 points (+0.33%) to 10,907.20; France's CAC 40 dropped 50.51 points (-0.60%) to 8,408.27; the Euro STOXX 50 lost 40.16 points (-0.64%) to 6,249.35; Spain's IBEX 35 tumbled 326.14 points (-1.65%) to 19,400.86; Italy's FTSE MIB slipped 271.19 points (-0.52%) to 51,427.00.

Zhao Leji met Slovak president Pellegrini in Beijing on July 29. China said it will follow leaders’ consensus to deepen strategic mutual trust and expand high-quality cooperation on the Belt and Road, trade, artificial intelligence and new energy, and that the National People’s Congress will strengthen exchanges with Slovakia’s National Council on legislative and oversight experience to provide legal support for bilateral pragmatic cooperation.