European equities opened higher as chip stocks rallied; ASML, ASMI and BESI shares rose about 2–2.5%.

On the morning of July 3 HITHINK ROYALFLUSH's mobile app experienced a service outage, with users reporting quote lag, community pages failing to load, stock search failures and slow or frozen minute and K-line charts. The outage trended on Weibo and some users said servers were unresponsive for about 30 minutes. HITHINK ROYALFLUSH said services have been restored and the cause is under investigation.

LME nickel rose 2.00% intraday to $16,638.90 a tonne.