July 19 (Thursday)

Markets
Stocks Mixed as Fed Chairman’s Testimony Continues (W)

Central banks & IMF
Fed Says Economic Growth Is Holding Up Even as Trade Concerns Spread (B)
Before House Panel, Powell Affirms Fed’s Plan to Raise Interest Rates Gradually (W)
Bernanke warns against wrong yield curve signal (FT)
World Economic Outlook Update, July 2018: Less Even Expansion, Rising Trade Tensions (IMF)

US
Housing Market Stumbles at the Beginning of Summer (W)
U.S. women are postponing motherhood, but not as much as those in most other developed nations (Pew)

US politics
Tax cuts 2.0: What we know so far (Fox)

Geopolitics & trade
Assailing ‘Haters,’ Trump Again Defends Remarks Alongside Putin (W)
EU Enlists Trade Rival China to Update Global Rules, Counter U.S. (W)
Canada’s Trudeau Shuffles Cabinet Over Trade Concerns (W)
Auto Industry Pushes White House to Back Off Tariffs (W)

Industries & companies
FANGs: EU’s Google Fine Threatens to Shake Mobile Industry (W)
Financials: Morgan Stanley Earnings Jump on Trading, Deal Surge (W)
Financials: American Express drops more than 3% after missing on revenue (C)
Tech: Samsung to Launch Foldable-Screen Phone Early Next Year (W)

Technology
New York-London in 3½ Hours? Supersonic Travel May Be Back (W)