U.S. markets are slightly down after June’s FOMC minutes indicated that more rate hikes are on the way despite the Fed opting to pause last month. Asian equities mirror the losses Stateside. U.S. Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, is due to visit China but tensions have been ramped up as Beijing warns that export restrictions on no chip raw materials are ‘just a start’. We are live in Vienna at the Opec seminar where the CEOs of TotalEnergies and Saudi Aramco tells CNBC that the oil sector remains robust despite recent signs of faltering demand. In IPO news, ThyssenKrupp’s hydrogen arm is set to list in Frankfurt valued at €2.5bn while Romanian energy firm Hidroelectrica is to go public on the Bucharest Stock Exchange next week and will be Europe’s biggest IPO of 2023 so far. Meta’s social media platform Threads goes live, earning 5 million subscribers within its first 4 hours.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.