7月17日至20日，WAIC 2026世界人工智能大会暨人工智能全球治理高级别会议将在上海举行，习近平主席将出席大会开幕式并发表主旨讲话。

Changxin Technology has launched its share issuance, with total fundraising of about 57.9 billion yuan. According to Jin10, market concerns that the large IPO could create a funding drain, even likening it to PetroChina's 2007 listing, were dismissed by a market veteran as an oversimplification. The veteran said the current market environment is very different from 2007, noting that policy is moderately loose now, while that period coincided with a rate-hike cycle and the global financial crisis. A-share total market capitalization has risen from 32 trillion yuan to 120 trillion yuan, and average daily turnover has increased from 190 billion yuan to more than 2 trillion yuan. The person added that A-shares use market-value allotment, so investors do not need to freeze subscription funds in advance, and that strategic placements and offline institutional allocations account for a high share of incremental funds rather than relying entirely on existing capital. The veteran also said the impact of large IPOs on indexes is limited, adding that the S&P 500 had a 71.4% success rate 20 days after the listing of the 15 largest U.S. IPOs. Experts said secondary-market performance is driven by multiple factors, and a single IPO has never been the fundamental cause of a correction.

Sterling rose to its strongest level in a year as speculation that incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham will appoint a markets-friendly Chancellor of the Exchequer prompted traders to scale back bearish bets on the UK currency, according to Bloomberg.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. has signed a deal to supply its newly launched sodium-based energy storage systems to Europe as it pursues both lithium and sodium battery technologies, according to Bloomberg. The agreement adds a European deployment for CATL's sodium battery storage products.

According to CNBC, Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raised $300 million in a Series C round that valued the company at $1.5 billion, making it the second Indian AI firm in a month to top the billion-dollar mark. Bengaluru-based Creaegis led the round, with Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed and Y Combinator also participating. Emergent said 70% of its users have no prior coding experience, and about 12 million apps were built on its platform in the past year. IDC Asia Pacific's head of research for AI, analytics and data, Deepika Giri, said nearly half of Indian enterprises are already testing agentic AI solutions. Market research firm IDC expects 45% of Indian organizations to use specialized cloud services by 2026 and said India has the broadest AI accelerator stack in APAC, spanning NVIDIA, AMD and hyperscaler silicon.

Guotou UBS Fund Management said its Guotou UBS Silver Futures Securities Investment Fund (LOF) A shares, traded on the exchange under the short name Guotou Silver LOF and fund code 161226, were trading at a price significantly above the fund's net asset value. According to Jin10, the fund's secondary-market closing price was 1.817 yuan on July 16, 2026, while its net asset value was 1.6289 yuan as of July 15, 2026. The company warned investors to closely watch the premium risk in the secondary market and make investment decisions prudently, saying blind investment could lead to major losses.

Spain reached the 2026 World Cup final after beating France 2-0 at Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on July 14, 2026, with Mikel Oyarzabal and Pedro Porro scoring either side of half-time, according to Yahoo Sports. Oyarzabal converted an early penalty after Lucas Digne fouled Lamine Yamal, while Porro finished a second-half move to seal the win. Spain will face either England or Argentina in Sunday’s final in New Jersey. France drop into the third-place playoff on Saturday in Miami.

当地时间周三，太空探索公司SpaceX盘中首次破发，这场市场信心压力测试，不仅可能动摇散户投资者信心，也让其他计划重磅上市的企业陷入不利局面。

7月上半月，加密市场在情绪、链上卖压和衍生品仓位上出现修复迹象，但ETF与现货买盘尚未形成连续性，当前更接近筑底进程中的阶段性反弹，而非已经确认的趋势反转。

On-chain analyst Ai Yi said an investor identified as Shandingdongren went long a basket of tech and semiconductor stocks with a position size of $19.39 million. According to Odaily, the position currently shows an unrealized loss of $7.67 million. The analyst said most of the losses came from Marvell Technology, SK Hynix, and SanDisk, which together account for $6.45 million in unrealized losses, or 84% of the total.

Foresight News reported that the Cardano Foundation shared details of a discussion with Volvo Group on blockchain applications in manufacturing. According to Foresight News, Ivan Branco, who oversees information management, artificial intelligence, and data analysis for Volvo Group's Belgian truck business, said Volvo once created a proprietary cryptocurrency for internal testing of supplier payment processes. Branco said the technology is already usable, but the supporting organizational culture has not kept pace, which he described as a harder problem than the technology itself. He added that supply chain compliance is an important use case for blockchain. If assembled parts include components from sanctioned countries, manufacturers may face repeated fines, while a shared ledger among suppliers could address trust issues at the source.

Japan has approved new laws that classify cryptocurrencies as financial products, bringing stricter rules on insider trading, disclosures and unregistered crypto businesses. The reforms also create the legal basis for lower crypto taxes from 2028 and could pave the way for Japan's first domestic crypto ETFs as early as 2027.

The Czech Republic Finance Ministry had ordered internet service providers to block Polymarket, adding the platform to the blacklist of online gambling websites. Internet service providers now have 15 days to block access to the platform.

谈谈我公开市场与私人股权市场之间，最核心的区别究竟在哪里。

DTCC,代币化股票,链上美债,RWA,DTCC完成首批真实生产环境的代币化证券交易 金色财经,为加密未来十年的发展，指明了方向。

xAI has sued a South Carolina man, alleging he used its Grok chatbot to create sexually explicit deepfakes involving adults and minors by trying to bypass its safety systems.

尽管大饼爬到了重要关口6.6万附近，但石油的反弹和沃什的强硬表态正在削弱这把推力。市场想要听到降息信号，但沃什并没给到。

South Korea is overhauling its decades-old state asset framework as the government moves to formally recognize digital assets and prepare public finance for the blockchain era.