France household consumption spending rose 0.5% MoM in July, versus 0.0% expected; June was revised up to 0.6% from 0.4%.

Senator Mark Kelly said Trump is struggling to find an exit from the conflict with Iran and that Americans are already paying through higher gasoline and food prices. Kelly said Trump’s options are limited: deploy ground forces — which could cost thousands of American lives — withdraw entirely, or apply economic pressure while working to rebuild ties with European allies. He said US-EU relations have been weakened over the past 18 months and called the situation a crisis of Trump’s own making. Kelly added that bombing operations causing civilian Iranian deaths are “not a good idea” and that economic measures combined with alliance rebuilding are preferable to military escalation or a ground invasion.

U.S. blocks U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key Trump-backed rules restricting mail-in voting.