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The U.S. Senate Health Committee advanced the nomination of Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a 12-10 vote.

Mexico's main stock index rose by more than 1%.

According to Interfax news agency: Russia has extended its ban on diesel and gasoline exports.

German Chancellor Merz: The events in Poland demonstrate Russia's recklessness and its willingness to escalate the situation.

Shell CFO: More liquefied natural gas is shifting from Asia to Europe.

Microsoft (MSFT.O) is on track for its biggest one-day percentage gain since March 2020, rising 15%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 347.32 points higher, or 0.67%, at 51,941.46 on Thursday, July 30; the S&P 500 opened 62.36 points higher, or 0.85%, at 7,378.76; and the Nasdaq Composite opened 396.06 points higher, or 1.62%, at 24,839.00.

Mastercard (MA.N) rose 3% after its second-quarter profit exceeded expectations.

Qualcomm (QCOM.O) fell 4.2% after the company forecast lower-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter profit and expected revenue declines from Apple to accelerate.

Oracle (ORCL.N): Customers will be able to access Gemini 3.1 FLASH LITE and 3.5 FLASH for advanced AI tasks.

Oracle (ORCL.N) will make Gemini models available to thousands of enterprise application customers.

Oracle (ORCL.N) U.S. stocks rose as much as 4% before the market opened, after announcing that it would expand its partnership with Google.

India launches sovereign-guaranteed marine insurance products.

The UK 2-year government bond yield continues to fall, falling 9 basis points to 4.365%.

Lombardelli, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England: Businesses are facing a severe environment.

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy: Products refined from Russian crude oil may be sold in the Kazakh domestic market, and some may be shipped back to Russia.

Kazakhstan Energy Ministry: Kazakhstan is negotiating with Russia for the processing of Russian crude oil in Kazakh refineries.

Bank of England Deputy Governor Ramsden: Bank interest rates remain our main tool, with quantitative tightening taking a back seat.

Lumsden, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England: Compared with the overall increase in the term premium of government bonds, the impact of quantitative tightening is very limited.

According to Nikkei, Microsoft plans to maintain its multimodal strategy, allowing customers to use models from OpenAI or Anthropic when they are more suited to their needs.