1. Recent data released by the World Gold Association show that in the first seven months of 2020, the scale of global gold ETF increased by 21% over the same period last year, and the total global gold ETF inflow reached 899 tons, or about US $49.1 billion, much higher than the previous annual inflow record. By the end of July, global gold ETF holdings reached 3785 tons, an all-time high. However, there is a certain reduction in August, which needs continuous attention in the later stage. 
2.. The Russian Ministry of Health registered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine on Aug. 11 and began production in two locations.The World Health Organization said that WHO and Russian health authorities are currently discussing the prequalification of the COVID-19 vaccine. 
3. Internationally, Japan will announce the second quarter GDP, Britain, the European Union, Japan will announce the July CPI, Germany, the European Union and the United States will announce the August manufacturing PMI.

4.The Social Weather Station, an independent social survey agency in the Philippines, released a new survey report showing that the unemployment rate in the Philippines reached 45.5%, a record.

5.Real-time statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that as of 06:27 Beijing time on the 17th, there were 21582345 confirmed cases and 772798 deaths of COVID-19 worldwide. Data show that the country with the largest number of confirmed and fatal cases of COVID-19 in the world is the United States, with a total of 5400180 confirmed cases and 169955 deaths.

 6. It is reported that SpaceX, a US space exploration technology company, has expanded its new round of financing to US $2 billion, and Fidelity has invested in it. The money is likely to be used directly for the company’s Starchain and Starship projects. SpaceX’s “Star chain” project aims to provide high-quality, low-cost broadband Internet services to users on Earth through more than 40, 000 satellites.

7.Us media: Trump signed an executive order requiring byte jump to sell or divest all assets capable of operating TikTok in the United States within 90 days. The US Treasury secretary said the order also required byte jump to strip all US user data obtained by TikTok USA and the acquired app Musical.ly. According to the executive order, byte jump is required to destroy the data of all US users and inform Cfius (CFIUS) after the destruction.

8.NASA: postpone the commercial manned space mission (Crew-1), which is scheduled to be launched no earlier than October 23rd. The commercial manned space mission was originally scheduled to be carried out in September 2020. However, as three astronauts will board the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in October, NASA plans to postpone the mission until the end of October in order not to affect flight plans for the rotation of the station’s crew.