Market news: major explosion reported in Hula, southern Lebanon.

U.S. President Trump says NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is currently in the Oval Office.

The Politburo of the CPC Central Committee met July 30 and directed measures to stabilize the China property market and implement a debt‑restructuring package for the property sector. It ordered reforms of local small‑ and medium‑sized financial institutions to defuse risks, shrink exposures and raise asset quality, called for deeper comprehensive reform of capital‑market investment‑financing to enhance market resilience and confidence, and required thorough risk inspections and strengthened disaster‑prevention work.