France household consumption expenditure YoY +0.1% in June, down from +0.3% in May.

Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades says it will give the government until Aug. 6 to demonstrate it can defend Iraq's sovereignty.

In Shenzhen offline malls multiple laptop brands have raised retail prices since the start of the year; excluding government subsidies, price increases on brand-name complete systems are materially smaller than the near-50% hikes seen in locally assembled offline PCs. The price move is shifting some demand from new machines to the second‑hand market and repairs: Huaqiangbei reports a marked summer uptick in used-laptop inquiries as office workers and students postpone new purchases. Repair and upgrade work — notably HDD/SSD and memory expansion — has risen noticeably, boosting service and component demand for the repair channel.