washingtonthe senate on wednesday approved a 280 billion bill aimed at boosting the semiconductor industry crucial to modern technology in a bipartisan embrace of expanding us industrial policy to counter the competitive threat posed by china the vote reflected growing concern in both parties that the us lacks a longterm response to beijings technological and economic rise a view galvanized when the covid19 pandemic disrupted chip supplies from asia with fallout across major industries adelaide australiasome of the worlds largest ironore miners said they expect the market to continue dictating prices of the commodity despite china setting up a centralized buying group to try to gain more sway china mineral resources group was established by beijing this month as part of a drive to secure more control over resources needed for the countrys growth at a time of rising tensions with the west more than half of chinas ironore imports arrive from australia which has faced a trade backlash from beijing after calling for an investigation into the origins of covid19 in central china demand for gold fell during the second quarter of 2022 as the strength of the dollar weighed on prices for the precious metal but macroeconomic weakness is still likely to ensure it remains an attractive investment the world gold council said in a report thursday gold demand fell by 8 from the same period in 2021 to 948 metric tons with much of the weakness related to the dollars strength the wgc said north korea threatens to annihilate souths military should it try preemptive strike seoulnorth korean leader kim jong un said the countrys nuclear missiles stand fully ready for a military conflict with the us and threatened to annihilate south koreas military should it attempt a preemptive strike the 38yearold dictator made the remarks while delivering a speech for the countrys victory day an annual july 27 holiday that celebrates the signing of the armistice that halted fighting in the korean war nearly seven decades ago without a peace treaty the conflict remains technically ongoing all times in gmt powered by onclusive and dow jones altra industrial motion corp aimc is expected to report 063 for 2q arch resources inc arch is expected to report for 2q asbury automotive abg is expected to report 885 for 2q canadian pacific railway cpcpt is expected to report 090 for 2q carter bankshares inc care is expected to report for 2q civista bancshares inc civb is expected to report 050 for 2q dte energy co dte is expected to report 110 for 2q donegal group dgicadgicb is expected to report 038 for 2q eagle materials inc exp is expected to report 280 for 1q euronet worldwide inc eeft is expected to report 128 for 2q fs bancorp fsbw is expected to report 080 for 2q first american financial faf is expected to report 162 for 2q firstcash holdings inc fcfs is expected to report for 2q harleydavidson hog is expected to report 116 for 2q honeywell international inc hon is expected to report 203 for 2q international paper ip is expected to report 112 for 2q kimco realty corp kim is expected to report 015 for 2q lakeland bancorp lbai is expected to report 043 for 2q lennox international inc lii is expected to report 472 for 2q lincoln electric holdings leco is expected to report 196 for 2q marinemax hzo is expected to report 304 for 3q national energy services reunited corp nesr is expected to report 011 for 1q old republic international corp ori is expected to report 060 for 2q oshkosh corp osk is expected to report 079 for 2q pfizer inc pfe is expected to report 165 for 2q popular inc bpop is expected to report 256 for 2q real matters inc realt is expected to report 000 for 3q reliance steel  aluminum co rs is expected to report 904 for 2q safehold inc safe is expected to report 040 for 2q sigmatron international inc sgma is expected to report for 4q sirius xm holdings inc siri is expected to report 008 for 2q southwest airlines luv is expected to report 107 for 2q stanley black  decker inc swk is expected to report 192 for 2q thermo fisher scientific tmo is expected to report 372 for 2q tilray inc tlry is expected to report 008 for 4q travel  leisure co tnl is expected to report for 2q triton international limited trtn is expected to report 268 for 2q valley national bancorp vly is expected to report 021 for 2q whitecap resources wcpt is expected to report for 2q wingstop inc wing is expected to report 036 for 2q 1life healthcare cut to hold from buy by stifel agilysys cut to hold from buy by craighallum agios pharmaceuticals raised to outperform from market perform by svb leerink carvana raised to market perform from underperform by raymond james clevelandcliffs cut to sell from buy by glj research f45 training cut to neutral from outperform by baird f45 training cut to neutral from outperform by macquarie helix energy solutions raised to outperform from inline by evercore isi group infrastructure  energy cut to neutral from buy by guggenheim international seaways raised to buy from neutral by btig liberty oilfield services raised to outperform from sector perform by rbc capital mcdonalds cut to hold from buy by deutsche bank newmont raised to buy from hold by canaccord genuity nisource raised to buy from hold by edward jones peoples financial svcs cut to equalweight from overweight by stephens  co pultegroup cut to neutral from buy by b of a securities schlumberger raised to buy from hold by benchmark transunion cut to neutral from buy by b of a securities this article is a text version of a wall street journal newsletter published earlier today