China A-share baijiu sector rallied. Guangdong Mingzhu jumped over 8%, Guizhou Moutai rose more than 2%; Litong Technology, Jiugui Liquor, Jinshiyuan and Shuijingfang also gained.

Yiyatong said on May 25 its unit Beijing Zhuoyou Yunzhi Technology won a bid to supply hardware and software for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Computer Network Information Center’s storage and backup cloud services for the human‑machine‑thing integration information infrastructure innovation and test platform. Contract value is 94.89 mln yuan; the project will build a nationwide distributed data storage backup cloud service platform.

Precious metals futures front-month contracts rose across the board: Shanghai silver extended gains to 3.01% at 18,483 yuan/kg, Shanghai gold climbed over 2.0% to 987.76 yuan/g. Platinum futures gained nearly 2%, palladium rose more than 1%.