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A fire broke out at the logistics center of Russian online retailer Wildberries in the Sverdlovsk region after an attack.

Trader: RBI may sell dollars to limit rupee depreciation.

Hong Kong-listed stocks related to large-scale modeling continued to rise, with MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) up nearly 25% and Zhipu (02513.HK) up over 17%.

According to the General Administration of Customs, China imported 35.726 million tons of crude oil in July, compared with 29.272 million tons in June.

According to the General Administration of Customs, China imported 283.326 million tons of crude oil from January to July.

The Hang Seng Index (HSI) opened down 3.63 points, or 0.01%, at 25,526.65 on Friday, August 7th; the Hang Seng Tech Index opened up 12.66 points, or 0.26%, at 4,833.44 on Friday, August 7th; the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index opened up 9.3 points, or 0.11%, at 8,508.03 on Friday, August 7th; and the Hang Seng Red Chip Index opened up 5.53 points, or 0.13%, at 4,127.85 on Friday, August 7th.

Hong Kong stocks opened lower, with the Hang Seng Index down 0.01% and the Tech Index up 0.26%. Nason Technology (02261.HK) opened 62% higher on its first day of trading.

NI225 fell 1%.

Sources say Alibaba plans to seek revenue sharing for its next-generation open-source 1000 Questions AI model.

According to the Financial Times, Washington's sale of euros late last week to boost the yen caught the European Central Bank off guard, with the US only informing the ECB after the currency intervention had taken place.

The price of near-month natural gas contracts in the Netherlands rose 5% to €58.57 per megawatt-hour.

The yield on Japan's 20-year government bonds rose 2.0 basis points to 3.660%.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index opened down 33.30 points, or 0.36%, at 9238.30 on Friday, August 7.

Japan's foreign exchange reserves stood at $1,287.1 billion in July, compared with $1,287.5 billion in the previous month.

Japan's Ministry of Finance: It conducted three currency intervention actions in April and May, buying yen.

Japan's Ministry of Finance: The largest single-day foreign exchange market intervention in the April-June quarter occurred on April 30, with an intervention amount of 6.2787 trillion yen.

US President Trump: (Regarding the Strait of Hormuz) Progress is going well.

Japan's total household spending fell 6.4% month-on-month in June, compared with a forecast of -3.1% and a previous reading of 3.7%.

Japan's total household spending in June fell 3.3% year-on-year, compared to a forecast of 1.00% and a previous reading of -0.40%.

Federal Reserve's Mussalim: Amidst energy market volatility, I am focused on core inflation.