South Korea's 10 largest brokerage firms reported a record consolidated Q2 net profit of KRW 5.9362 trillion, up 37% QoQ and 141% YoY. Despite robust earnings, broker stocks have weakened: the KRX securities industry index peaked at 9,804.97 on May 9, then slid to 6,400–7,400 in June, 4,700–6,400 in July and has traded around 5,000–5,500 this month.

Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are racing to build an annual solar build capacity of 100 GW, but will still need natural gas over the next few years to supplement and start up solar generation. He said the bottleneck for gas-turbine production is casting blades and guide vanes; bringing casting in-house at SpaceX could bring turbines online up to 18 months faster, a potentially transformative improvement.

The IRGC's deputy political director told Fars News the US did not start the war over Iran's uranium enrichment. "Those who believe the war stems from uranium enrichment do not correctly understand history," he said. "Those who think if we stop enriching uranium there would be no war either lack accurate historical knowledge or proper analytical ability." He attributed the conflict to US aims to overthrow the Islamic Republic.