Spot gold traded above $4,440/oz, rising over $100 intraday, a 2.44% gain.

Shanghai’s Science and Technology Commission rolled out the Zhangjiang Hi‑Tech Development Zone 15th Five‑Year plan, prioritizing measures to deepen tech financing and support industrial consolidation. Key market measures: back qualified tech firms to list on the STAR Market for financing; encourage tech companies to issue innovation-and-entrepreneurship corporate bonds and investment institutions to issue technology-innovation bonds; expand exit channels via private equity secondary-market (S) funds and M&A funds and support equity investment clusters. Plan urges use of the M&A loan pilot to finance industry‑chain acquisitions and better deployment of re-lending for tech innovation and technology renovation and other structural monetary tools. It also calls for stronger angel-investment platforms, fintech–industry integration demonstration zones, and greater private and foreign capital participation in park construction and industrial innovation.

President Trump said the new White House helicopter pad may open on Aug. 21.