U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): As of the week ending July 16, speculative net long positions in COMEX copper futures decreased by 1,708 lots to 41,695 lots.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): As of the week ending July 16, U.S. speculators increased their net short positions in the S&P 500 Index CME by 28,517 contracts to 370,142 contracts, and stock fund managers increased their net long positions in the S&P 500 Index CME by 19,908 contracts to 997,340 contracts.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): As of the week ending July 16, speculative net long positions in COMEX silver futures decreased by 1,166 contracts to 38,638 contracts.

According to the New York Times: Democratic major donor Michael Moritz urged Biden to withdraw from the election.

On the 19th local time, Tunisian President Saied announced that he will run for re-election in the presidential election to be held in October this year.

Hang Seng Index futures closed up 0.07% at 17,450 in the night session, 32 points higher.

[Israeli army claims airstrikes on two Hezbollah arsenals in Lebanon] On the evening of July 19 local time, the Israel Defense Forces stated that earlier that day, Israeli fighter jets bombed two arsenals belonging to Hezbollah in the Tayr Harfa and Blida areas in southern Lebanon.

According to the Wall Street Journal: Activist investor ELLIOTT holds a large number of Starbucks shares.

According to a report released by the United States Geological Survey, at 13:05 local time on July 19, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake occurred 112 kilometers southeast of Colchane, Tarapacá Region, northern Chile, with a focal depth of 183.7 kilometers. No casualties or property losses have been reported so far.

According to US media Star Tribune: US Congressman McCollum said Biden should withdraw from the election.

Senior U.S. military official: U.S. President Biden was "actively engaged" during his meeting with us and asked many tough questions.

According to the New York Times: US Vice President Harris will talk to major Democratic donors.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: We are aware of circumstances related to a widespread information technology outage and are monitoring the impact on the markets.

ExxonMobil: Global network outage affected some company information systems.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has subpoenaed CrowdStrike and Microsoft for briefings on IT service outages.

U.S. Department of Defense: Accepted the first newly delivered F-35 fighter jet on Friday.

The Federal Reserve accepted a total of US$379.801 billion from 67 counterparties in fixed-rate reverse repurchase operations.