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On Tuesday, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Moolenaar urged JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley to stop participating in Shein's initial public offering in Hong Kong, accusing its supply chain of involving forced labor.

NVIDIA has signed memorandums of understanding with six major institutions—Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR—to build a financing platform, leverage 500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure, and make GPUs a collateralizable asset.

After experiencing a market shakeout at the end of July, the U.S. stock market ushered in a second wave of surge. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index both hit record highs from August 3rd to 4th, with the Dow standing above 54,000 points for the first time.

On July 23, Brent crude oil prices broke through $100, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 500 points, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 2.15% to close at 25,137.69 points.

On July 8, Bank of America cut its full-year average price to $4,360 and predicted that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates three consecutive times in the second half of the year.

In late July 2026, four tech giants released their Q2 earnings reports, with combined cash capital expenditures of $165.05 billion, up 827% year-on-year, accounting for 96% of the $171.7 billion in operating cash flow over the same period; among them, the comparable free cash flow of Alphabet and Amazon was negative.

Wall Street market maker SIG filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York court in Manhattan, taking 100 mysterious accounts that had profited enormously by buying put options in advance with precision to court, and the judge issued a freezing order the same day.

On June 25, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported that China is reviewing a new bill that would authorize prosecutorial organs to file civil public interest lawsuits against foreign organizations and individuals in order to counter foreign sanctions and economic pressure, posing additional compliance risks for foreign enterprises.

Goldman Sachs released a research report stating that gold would continue to fall due to interest rate hikes, but SEC filings from the same period show it secretly increased its holdings in gold ETFs.

During the GameStop hype, Robinhood halted buying, causing the stock price to crash from $483 to $112, crushing retail liquidity with a single purchase-restriction order.

Between 2008 and 2016, 15 JPMorgan traders systematically spoofed the precious metals markets, resulting in $920 million in fines from U.S. regulators and criminal charges against three traders.