Financial News

• : Chinese students are taking the infamous college entrance exam this week amid coronavirus controls and testing scandals
• Metals Stocks: Gold futures slip, set to take a breather after carving out fresh 9-year peak
• Relay Therapeutics sets IPO terms, to be valued at up to $1.5 billion
• In One Chart: This fascinating chart shows the link between commodity prices and populism
• Venture funding remains elusive for Black tech entrepreneurs
• British grocers reject U.S. chlorine-washed chicken as row over welfare standards deepen
• Need to Know: After that 41% ‘moonshot’ for stocks, here’s what one strategist is telling investors to do next
• Poseida Therapeutics to raise up to $236 million in planned IPO
• Microsoft's stock set to open in record territory after Wedbush's Ives raises target to the highest on the Street
• Noble Energy cut unit production costs and funded $100 million in investments in Q2

Key Stocks

• As COVID cases spike in Florida, Trump now says he's 'flexible' on convention format in Jacksonville
• As COVID-19 makes a comeback, so will lockdowns
• 2 female firsts at the Supreme Court announce retirements
• Texas Governor Is ‘Putting Lives at Risk,’ Local Officials Say
• ‘Let me borrow your bike’: Atlanta police officer takes passing man’s bicycle to chase fleeing murder suspect
• What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
• 'I would be very careful in the middle of the street': There have been at least 66 vehicle-ramming attacks in US since May 27
• California seemed to do everything right. So why are COVID-19 cases surging?
• The Lincoln Project continues anti-Trump ad campaign
• FBI head calls China 'the greatest long-term threat' to the US and alleges Chinese plots to steal US data and forcibly repatriate its citizens

• Kernel raises $53 million for its non-invasive ‘Neuroscience as a Service’ technology
• TikTok saw a rise in government demands for user data
• Review: Handsome and nippy, new VanMoof e-bikes could be the shape of cities to come
• 14 VCs discuss COVID-19 and London’s future as a tech hub
• WhatsApp Business, now with 50m MAUs, adds QR codes and catalog sharing
• Flipkart invests $35 million in Indian fashion brand to target youth
• LocalGlobe and TransferWise’s Taavet Hinrikus back ‘frictionless finance’ startup Radix
• Yamo scores €10.1M Series A to offer healthier food choices for young children
• Nuggs rebrands as Simulate with new cash, a new CTO and an expanded line of faux-meat foods
• Joe Coffee raises another $1.3M to help more coffee shops take mobile orders