日本财务大臣片山皋月：希望日本央行能够采取适当的货币政策，稳定、可持续地实现2%的价格目标，并伴随工资上涨。

People's Daily published an interview with Huawei board director and president of the Semiconductor Business Unit He Tingbo. He said that faced with various difficulties the company did not retreat and fought with all its might. What we pride ourselves on is a simple belief and unglamorous, stubborn hard work; as long as the direction is correct, moving more slowly is acceptable — by continually moving forward you will eventually find bridges and roads. Relying on sustained basic-theory research and practice, we not only cleared a path but built a highway. We are an engineer-led company; engineers' work is to solve problems. External environmental constraints have imposed very stringent limits on us, but they have also given us a purer work drive. Most of the time the team works resolutely, quietly and calmly, because only when calm, focused and free of distractions can one sincerely, openly and deeply probe problems and find solutions.

US April new-home sales annualized 622,000, vs. 665,000 expected; March revised down to 663,000 from 682,000.