Salesforce (CRM.N) shares rose 19%, the largest advance since August 2020.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment on July 27 released July air quality data showing continued improvement across 339 prefecture-level and above cities. The share of days rated good averaged 92.5%; days with severe or worse pollution averaged 0.1%, down 0.1 percentage point YoY. PM2.5 averaged 13.9 µg/m3, down 4.1% YoY; PM10 averaged 26 µg/m3, down 7.1%; ozone averaged 132 µg/m3, down 4.3%. Regionally, Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei and surrounding “2+36” cities saw the share of good days rise 2.4 percentage points YoY and recorded no heavy-pollution days. In the Yangtze River Delta, PM2.5 across 31 cities fell 10.9% YoY and the share of good days reached 96.7%, the largest improvement.

XPeng (09868.HK) chairman He Xiaopeng said in a post he expects to be first to secure regulatory approval in Europe in 2027 and begin delivering the second-generation VLA to more international customers.