Automatically crawled from Tonghuashun and Eastmoney every day at 08:00 Beijing time via cron, with summaries rewritten by Doubao. For information aggregation only, does not constitute investment advice.

Tonghuashun 7/24

People’s Bank of China: Zero 7-day reverse repo operations conducted on August 19, 2026

2026/8/19 09:21:45

On August 19, 2026, the People’s Bank of China conducted open market operations: based on the demand of primary dealers, zero 7-day reverse repo operations were conducted that day, with only 327.4 billion yuan in overnight reverse repos launched. According to Tonghuashun iFinD data, a total of 469.7 billion yuan in 1-day reverse repos matured that day, while 7-day reverse repo maturities stood at 0, resulting in a total net withdrawal of 142.3 billion yuan across all calibers.

港股 open: Hang Seng Index opens 0.49% lower, Hang Seng Tech Index opens 1.27% lower

2026/8/19 09:21:42

港股 opened on the day with the Hang Seng Index down 0.49% and the Hang Seng Tech Index down 1.27%. For individual stocks: Xiaomi Group-W opened nearly 3% higher, after it released its Q2 2026 results with quarterly revenue of 108.9 billion yuan and adjusted net profit of 6.2 billion yuan, marking a sequential improvement; Baidu Group-SW opened more than 12% lower, with its同期 report showing revenue of 31.3 billion yuan, down 4% year-on-year, and net profit attributable to shareholders down 68.33% year-on-year.

Huatai Futures: Market risk sentiment has picked up, demand for gold investment may weaken slightly

2026/8/19 09:16:59

Huatai Futures’ latest analysis: Affected by rising geopolitical tensions, current market risk sentiment has risen, and gold investment demand may weaken slightly in the short term, but the core bullish logic for gold has not changed significantly. If the US-Iran situation shifts from short-term high-intensity conflict to long-term confrontation, it will not shake the logic of gold as an alternative to dollar-denominated assets. The driving logic for silver is consistent with that of gold, and a cautious bullish view is maintained for both.

Central parity rate of RMB against US dollar stands at 6.7854, raised by 51 basis points from previous day

2026/8/19 09:15:50

The China Foreign Exchange Trade System recently announced that the central parity rate of the RMB against the US dollar is 6.7854, raised by 51 basis points from the previous trading day. This central parity rate is obtained by querying all market makers before the daily opening of the interbank foreign exchange market, removing the highest and lowest quotes, and calculating a weighted average. It is the most important reference indicator for the spot interbank foreign exchange market and bank listed exchange rates.

CICC Wealth Futures: Gold is highly likely to remain range-bound at high levels in the short term

2026/8/19 09:15:21

The underlying asset covered here is gold. Affected by the sharp rise in bond market yields pushing up the holding cost of interest-free assets, as well as the outflow of profit-taking orders after the previous rise in gold prices, gold has seen a significant correction recently. CICC Wealth Futures judges that it is necessary to track bond market trends and interest rate changes in the short term; as bond market yields are unlikely to continue to rise sharply, it is expected that gold will remain range-bound at high levels with high probability in the short term.

Japanese and South Korean stock markets narrow losses

2026/8/19 09:14:52

Japanese and South Korean stock markets recently narrowed their losses after sharp intraday drops, covering the Nikkei 225 Index and Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI). The Nikkei 225 Index once fell more than 3% intraday, and its current loss has narrowed to less than 2%; the KOSPI once fell more than 6% at its intraday low, and its current loss has narrowed to 4.2%, indicating that short-term concentrated selling pressure in both markets has been temporarily released, and no sustained indiscriminate selling has occurred so far.

Eastmoney 7/24

Ukraine’s Patriot missile stockpiles reportedly about to run out; Russian media: Kyiv finds itself in a very difficult situation, even somewhat ‘desperate’

2026/8/19 09:18:04

According to a CNN report released on the 17th, Ukraine has voluntarily revealed that its stockpile of Patriot air defense missiles is about to run out. Earlier, Ukrainian President Zelensky publicly stated last week that the number of interceptor missiles currently held by Ukraine is only 1% of the amount it urgently needs to obtain from the United States. Russian media reported on this that Kyiv is currently in a very difficult situation, and even has a ‘desperate’ sentiment.

Central parity rate of RMB against US dollar stands at 6.7854

2026/8/19 09:16:32

On August 19, the central parity rate of the RMB against the US dollar stood at 6.7854, raised by 51 basis points from the previous trading day. This slight increase is in line with the normal operating characteristics of two-way fluctuations in the RMB exchange rate. It can moderately stabilize market exchange rate expectations in the short term, slightly reduce the foreign exchange purchase cost for foreign trade entities, and also reflects that the current domestic economic fundamentals still support the valuation of the RMB.

Nikkei 225 Index narrows losses to less than 2%

2026/8/19 09:16:04

This news covers two major Asia-Pacific stock indices: the Nikkei 225 Index and the KOSPI. Both experienced sharp intraday dips before significantly narrowing their losses: the Nikkei 225 Index once fell more than 3% intraday, and its current loss has narrowed to less than 2%; the KOSPI once fell more than 6% intraday, and its current loss has narrowed to 4.2%, indicating that short-term market selling pressure has been partially released, while volatile sentiment remains.

Major positive for commercial aerospace! China achieves land rocket recovery for the first time | Pre-market clues

2026/8/19 09:12:33

According to CCTV News on August 19, the Zhuque-3 Y2 carrier rocket was launched from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Experimental Zone, and the first stage of the rocket successfully landed at the Zhuque-3 landing site in Minqin County, Gansu Province according to the scheduled procedure. This mission marks China’s first breakthrough in land rocket recovery, and Zhuque-3 has become China’s first carrier rocket to successfully enter orbit and complete land recovery, indicating that China has made a major breakthrough in key reusable rocket technologies.

Changjiang Storage’s IPO tutoring status changed to ‘tutoring acceptance’

2026/8/19 09:12:19

Domestic core memory chip manufacturer Changjiang Storage Holding Co., Ltd. has made new progress in its IPO process: according to the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, its IPO tutoring status has now been changed to ‘tutoring acceptance’, with leading securities firms CITIC Securities and CSC Financial serving as the tutoring institutions. This status change means that its listing tutoring has entered the final stage, bringing it one step closer to officially submitting listing application materials.

Prices remain high, Japanese households tend to reduce consumption

2026/8/19 09:11:09

On August 17, the Japanese government released the preliminary Q2 2026 GDP statistics: after adjusting for price factors, real GDP rose 0.3% quarter-on-quarter, with an annualized growth rate of 1.1%, far below market expectations. Personal consumption, which accounts for more than 50% of Japan’s total economy, was basically stagnant in the second quarter. Affected by persistently high prices, Japanese households have low willingness to consume, and generally tend to cut spending and reduce consumption.

Yahoo Finance

Finfluencers Build Trust With Relatability, Rage Bait and GRWM Routines

2026/8/17 21:19:00

This news sorts out the audience trust-building logic of overseas financial KOLs (Finfluencers): currently, these creators mainly build user trust through three types of content: first, down-to-earth content close to the daily lives of ordinary investors; second, controversial traffic-driving content that stirs public sentiment; third, lifestyle sharing of “getting ready while chatting”. This model lowers the threshold for financial content, but also has hidden risks of attention-grabbing content and insufficient professionalism.

Is Wall Street Bullish or Bearish on Akamai Technologies Stock?

2026/8/17 21:19:12

Wall Street currently has obvious bull-bear differences on the stock trend of 美股 listed CDN and cloud security leader Akamai Technologies: bulls are optimistic about the long-term growth space of its edge computing and cybersecurity businesses, giving an overweight rating; bears worry that the contraction of corporate IT spending under macro pressure will hit its core revenue. Currently, the proportion of ratings from both sides is close, and the related game may trigger short-term stock price fluctuations.

HIVE Digital’s Stock Jumps 14% On News Of Nvidia Deal

2026/8/17 21:31:00

Short summary: The underlying assets covered are listed crypto mining company HIVE Digital and chip giant Nvidia. The triggering event is the market disclosure of the news that HIVE Digital has reached a cooperation with Nvidia; the impact of the event is that HIVE Digital’s stock price jumped 14% in the short term after the news was made public. Currently, crypto mining companies are generally deploying AI computing power businesses, and this cooperation is regarded by the market as a positive signal for HIVE’s subsequent expansion of its computing power business.