🇺🇸 Joe Biden picked California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the U.S. presidential election, making her the first Black woman and first Asian-American on a major party ticket. https://bloom.bg/2DMuyDp

👀 Hong Kong’s wealthy investors aren’t leaving the city just yet — but they are getting crisis plans ready, like opening offshore bank accounts and securing overseas passports. https://bloom.bg/2XUj9rQ

💉 And whoever wins the race to create the first effective Covid-19 vaccine, this Indian billionaire is essential to ending the pandemic: https://bloom.bg/3fQvfbR

📉 The U.K. economy suffers the worst slump in Europe, officially entering recession with a 20.4% contraction in the second quarter. https://bloom.bg/3afGYj1

🇨🇳 U.S. and Chinese negotiators plan to discuss progress of their trade deal in the coming days, with Beijing pushing to widen the agenda to include Washington’s crackdown on TikTok and WeChat. https://bloom.bg/3amp2Dd

⚖️ Here’s a look at what Kamala Harris brings to Joe Biden’s campaign — the assets, and the liabilities. https://bloom.bg/31Kvyjh

Apple’s $44 billion market in China, which it spent years building up, is all being threatened by Trump’s ban on WeChat.

🍎 iPhone users across the country are reconsidering their attachment to the device if Apple is forced to remove the service from its global app stores. Executives at Tencent, WeChat’s parent company, said they believed the ban only applied to the U.S., but they’re still unclear about how Trump’s orders will be implemented. https://bloom.bg/2DMh7Dq

🇨🇳 Any ban on WeChat threatens to cut off a key communication link between China and the rest of the world, and prevent U.S. companies like Starbucks and Walmart from reaching consumers in the world’s second-largest economy. https://bloom.bg/33S0ot2

🦠 Around 3.4 million people in England — 6% of the population — have contracted coronavirus, with infection rates twice as high in London, according to a major study. https://bloom.bg/2Co5cep

🗒️ Interpol adds former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek to its most wanted list, sparking a worldwide manhunt. https://bloom.bg/33U4aSz

🍗 China urges people in Shenzhen to exercise caution after frozen chicken wings from Brazil test positive for coronavirus. https://bloom.bg/3kGuPs3

📬President Donald Trump directly tied his opposition to a financial lifeline for the Postal Service to his criticism of mail-in voting during the pandemic: https://bloom.bg/2Fg5kgY

🇺🇸 Female Black executives are cheering Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris for Vice President. This is something “you cry about” said one higher-powered exec: https://bloom.bg/33VKLkb

📺 Apple is launching its very first discounted streaming bundle to draw in audiences: https://bloom.bg/3az85G1

😷 Forced isolation for those with mild or symptom-free infections may be the only way to prevent flare-ups of coronavirus. But in liberal democracies, that tactic presents special challenges. https://bloom.bg/3kChTn0

🧪 Speaking of the virus, Bill Gates, who has pledged more than $350 million to fight it, spoke with us about when he expects to see a vaccine and the conspiracy theorists who claim he seeded the disease for his own nefarious purposes. https://bloom.bg/2DWbnqp

🇹🇭 And Thailand’s elite visa program for wealthy foreigners may have an expansion opportunity, with visions of the country becoming a virus haven. https://bloom.bg/2XYKjxI

😷 British tourists face chaos after France, the Netherlands and Malta are added to the U.K.’s quarantine list. https://bloom.bg/2DSVyB1

📮 A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has given the president’s campaign one day to turn over evidence to support its claims of widespread mail-in voting fraud, or admit that it doesn’t exist. https://bloom.bg/2FoUUfb

🇮🇳 Kamala Harris’s Indian connections spark a frenzy on social media as users chronicle her links to Chennai, where her mother was born. https://bloom.bg/2DSVp0r

Hello 👋 Here’s what we’re following right now:

🇹🇭 More than 10,000 people protested against the monarchy and the government in Bangkok on Sunday. The rallies are breaking deeply entrenched taboos in Thailand, where openly criticizing the king can lead to long jail sentences and worse. https://bloom.bg/2Fw7Ekd

🏭 China’s economy was the first to succumb to the coronavirus, and now it’s proving to be the fastest to recover. One major reason is that the world still needs its exports. https://bloom.bg/3kTVAJw

💸 Citi’s $900 million “clerical error” is the worst Wall Street mistake in a long time. One financier involved compared the surprise payment to finding a fortune on the sidewalk. https://bloom.bg/31VCASx

⤴ France’s public health agency warned that all of its Covid-19 indicators are trending upward. https://bloom.bg/3aDfR1p

😷 Spain will start shutting nightclubs after they were blamed for spikes in the coronavirus cases that triggered new travel warnings. https://bloom.bg/3g3nBuN

📊 European stocks fluctuated in light trading as investors focused on travel restrictions and U.S.-China trade tensions. https://bloom.bg/3g1uL2r

✈️ Air Force One was nearly hit by what appeared to be a small drone on Sunday night, according to several witnesses: https://bloom.bg/2Y9pobk

🇺🇸 The Democratic National Convention kicks off today to officially nominate Joe Biden to run for president. Here’s what to know: https://bloom.bg/2Cye6G6

🦠 Black, Hispanic and other non-White workers face higher risks from Covid-19 in their workplaces than white employees, a new study shows: https://bloom.bg/2E6d84p

🇺🇸 U.S. Democrats began their virtual national convention by slamming Trump on the coronavirus, racial justice and the shattered economy. Watch live coverage here: https://bloom.bg/2DSN6lz

🇭🇰 Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam is having trouble using her credit cards after the U.S. sanctioned her over efforts to curtail dissent in the city. https://bloom.bg/3kUHoAk

📈 And Elon Musk is now the fourth-richest person in the world. Monday’s surge in Tesla shares boosted his net worth by $8 billion. https://bloom.bg/347USm2

❗ A UN-backed court found no evidence that Syria and the Hezbollah leadership were directly involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri. https://bloom.bg/3gc4ajf

🇺🇸 During a speech at the DNC, Michelle Obama said President Donald Trump “is the wrong president for our country," adding that "he is clearly in over his head." https://bloom.bg/2Ftc632

💉 What happens to markets if there's a vaccine? Here are three scenarios. https://bloom.bg/2E9uCwO

👀 Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails intended to harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded:  https://trib.al/Ip53M1l 

📈 Here are 3 scenarios for the markets after we find a vaccine:
https://trib.al/86YD2qq 

😷 Potential accuracy issues with a widely used coronavirus test could lead to false results for patients: https://trib.al/QGiOmLC

🇺🇸 🔄 🇨🇳 The U.S. is asking colleges and universities to divest from Chinese stocks in their endowments, opening a new front in Trump’s campaign against China.

The State Department sent a letter warning schools to get ahead of potential delistings from U.S. exchanges. College and university funds represent billions of investment in Chinese companies, according to a 2019 investigation by Bloomberg.

Keep reading: https://bloom.bg/3aABUWq

📈 A record high for U.S. stocks leaves the rest of the world far behind. https://bloom.bg/317ZTct

☎ Donald Trump called off last week’s trade talks, saying “I don’t want to talk to China right now.”
https://bloom.bg/2Ejgy3K

💸 Hackers bled 118 Bitcoins out of Covid researchers in the U.S. Here’s how it happened.
https://bloom.bg/3herJJJ

🇺🇸Tonight Kamala Harris will become the first Black woman and first Indian-American to be on a major party ticket. Here’s what to watch for at the Democratic National Convention: https://bloom.bg/322cflK

🛍The American consumer is proving more resilient than predicted during the pandemic: https://bloom.bg/3ga89gl

🏈With college students returning — and football about to start — major schools are still struggling with what to do on the field and in the classroom: https://bloom.bg/31bl8Km

🚨 A group of Finnish researchers believe they’ve discovered what people have spent centuries searching for: a hangover cure. (It’s not Gatorade and ibuprofen.) https://bloom.bg/2YisKcb

🇭🇰 The U.S. ended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as well as its reciprocal tax treatment with the city. The moves strip away some of the few remaining ways in which the U.S. treated Hong Kong differently from the rest of China. https://bloom.bg/2CNEUT6

🍺 The beermaker San Miguel, the Philippines’ largest company, has a plan to build an airport. It involves lots and lots of crabs. 🦀 https://bloom.bg/2Qbvu6V

BREAKING: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been hospitalized with suspected poisoning and is in intensive care, his spokeswoman said.

The 44-year-old fell ill on a plane returning to Moscow. The aircraft made an emergency landing in Omsk where he was taken to the hospital for treatment of “toxic poisoning” and has been put on a ventilator, she said.

His aides believe something suspicious was put in his tea. Navalny's the latest Kremlin critic to fall victim to an apparent poisoning. https://bloom.bg/2CI1g8j

💉 Russia is starting clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine it's already approved::
https://trib.al/XZXuOlh 

🔥 Californians are in their sixth month of sheltering in place because of the pandemic. Now hundreds of wildfires are forcing people to flee their homes: https://trib.al/XH2jAfA 

👀 Trump repeatedly sought a pre-election meeting in the U.S. with Vladimir Putin, a prospect that White House aides ruled out: https://trib.al/7LkRS7I

Here’s what we’re following today:

📬 It’s been a big month for the U.S. Postal Service. It was already in the spotlight over mail-in voting concerns, and drew a different kind of attention on Thursday when its inspectors arrested Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist, on mail fraud charges. https://bloom.bg/326TLk2

💉 Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is on track to be submitted for regulatory review as early as October. https://bloom.bg/2YkL705

✈️ And Singapore Airlines burned through half of the $6.4 billion it raised in just two months, showing how carriers can keep racking up expenses even when planes are idle. https://bloom.bg/3l3RYF8