28 juli. European wildfires in maps. Chipfrossan tilltar. Yangtze.
En stor förklaring till återhämtningen på tisdagen var att flera indextunga aktier som Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft och Apple stängde på plus.
China river back from the brink. Yangtze, running 6,300km from the Tibetan plateau to Shanghai.
Ever since the 1950s the government has had a love of dams, to control floods and generate hydroelectricity. A dozen gigantic ones have been built on the Yangtze, including the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest, as well as thousands of smaller ones elsewhere in the river’s basin.
Perhaps the most controversial current project in the river’s basin is a proposed 3km dam to be built between Poyang, the country’s largest freshwater lake, and the Yangtze.
China’s government says it will help control the lake’s water level in the dry season. But many fear it will destroy the habitat of migratory birds.
The Economist 27 July 2026
China has started construction of the worlds biggest hydroelectric dam. China possesses 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of its fresh water.
Devastating European wildfires in maps
BBC 27 July 2026
Stockholmsbörsen avslutade en svajig handelsdag på plus
efter en stark återhämtning inför stängning.
Den sydkoreanska börsen står för ett nytt kraftigt fall och medföljande handelsstopp samtidigt som Tokyobörsen pressas när chipfrossan tilltar. ”Girigheten har förvandlats till rädsla”, säger en analytiker till Bloomberg.
DI 28 juli 2026, 06:53
Shares in major chip firms have fallen sharply in the US and Asia as a sell-off in artificial intelligence-related stocks deepened.
Trading on South Korea's benchmark Kospi index was paused temporarily on Tuesday morning after sliding by 8%. It fell further after the 20-minute halt was lifted to trade around 10% lower.
BBC 28 July 2026
A global selloff in semiconductor stocks deepened on Tuesday, as fresh signs of China’s progress in advanced chipmaking and mounting concerns over the artificial intelligence spending boom sparked another wave of selling across the sector.
A Bloomberg gauge of Asian semiconductor shares slumped as much as 7.5%, the most since early March, after a report that a Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines
Nvidia’s potential new deal with OpenAI would revive a spooky tech-bubble habit, analyst warns
Investors are fretting over a report that Nvidia could backstop an OpenAI data-center lease, in what would be the largest such arrangement yet
MarketWatch July 27, 2026
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