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[Overnight global news you need to know on Friday] 1. The three major indexes of U.S. stocks collectively closed higher, with the Nasdaq rising 1.51%, the S&P 500 up 0.91%, and the Dow up 0.85%. Popular Chinese stocks rose generally. The NASDAQ China Golden Dragon Index rose by more than 6%, a new closing high since the end of November last year, and the largest one-day increase since the end of July last year. Most major European stock indexes fell, while Germany's DAX30 index fell 0.15%. 2. According to sources from the Egyptian security sector, Hamas has shown greater flexibility in the release of detained persons, and the ceasefire negotiations have made progress. 3. Turkey announced that it would stop all trade with Israel. 4. Uzbek armed forces said that two patrol boats delivered by Estonia had been put into use. 5. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model predicted that the US GDP growth rate in the second quarter was 3.3%, which was the same as previously expected. 6. The US Treasury Department may start to increase the supply of treasury bonds as early as Thursday. 7. NASDAQ plans to launch short-term options expiring every Monday for commodity futures and US treasury bond ETFs. 8. Jean Lian, the chief economist of the European Central Bank, said that the policy interest rate would remain limited if necessary. 9. European Central Bank Governing Board Stunalas said that the European Central Bank is more likely to cut interest rates three times in 2024. 10. The former governor of the Bank of Japan, Tomohiko Kuroda, said that the depreciation of the yen was only temporary. 11. The governor of the National Bank of Uzbekistan said that the foreign exchange market has been controlled, but there are still risks. 12. WTI crude oil futures contract fell 0.06% in June and Brent crude oil futures contract rose 0.28% in July. 13. Apple's Q2 revenue in fiscal year 2024 is $90.75 billion, and the market expects $90 billion; The net profit is 23.636 billion dollars, and the market expects 23.17 billion dollars. It will buy back an additional $110 billion of shares and raise quarterly dividends. 14. Glencore considered making a takeover offer to Anglo American. 15. Sony and Apollo made a 26 billion dollar all cash acquisition offer to Paramount. 16. UBS plans to cut costs by at least US $300 million. 17. On Thursday, the size of the overnight reverse repurchase agreement of the Federal Reserve was $428.68 billion.
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