“美聯儲傳聲筒”Nick Timiraos：7月份，美國失業率降至4.09%，因爲求職人數和被統計爲失業的人數均有所下降；這一數據使失業率降至兩年來的最低水平。2月份爲4.44%，去年11月份爲4.54%。

SAMR said its special action to implement the Fair Competition Review System has produced phased results: in 1H national market regulators reviewed more than 30,000 policy measures and guided revisions to over 6,600. Launched in April to push forward a unified national market, SAMR is accelerating revisions to the Implementing Measures for the Fair Competition Review Regulation and aims to issue them soon. It will soon conduct 2026 spot checks of fair competition reviews to correct a batch of institutional barriers in market access, factor access, qualification recognition and bidding/tendering.

France's unemployment rate rose to 8.3% in Q2 from 8.1% in Q1, above economists' median forecast of 8.2% and the highest reading since end-2020, the national statistics office said. The weakening labour market has dented President Macron's record and led the government to shelve its goal of achieving full employment by the end of his second term next year. Officials and the data pointed to energy-price shocks from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and a new Iran-related conflict as key factors adding strain to the economy.