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Provisions eat into profit at HSBC after first half earnings miss forecasts, falling 65 percent as the bank sets aside more capital and warns of ongoing risks for the year ahead. French bank SocGen reports a €1.2 billion loss in the second quarter as the lender takes an impairment charge on its global markets business. President Trump reportedly gives China’s ByteDance 45 days to sell TikTok to Microsoft after the White House threatens the ban the short video app over security concerns. And: an historic moment for space travel as NASA astronauts successfully return from their mission to take the Crew Dragon to the International Space Station in the first mission from US soil in almost a decade. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .