South Korea's finance minister said on Friday the government will lower the national fuel price cap as part of measures to rein in inf. He said officials kept the sixth-round cap unchanged this week amid ongoing Middle East uncertainty, but the seventh-round cap will be set below the current level and maintained until consumer prices stabilize. Seoul introduced a nationwide fuel price cap in March for the first time in decades; authorities now review the cap monthly.

IBM(IBM.N)美股盘前上涨4.5%，此前公司推出了全球首款亚1纳米芯片技术。

China State Planner and the National Energy Administration issued the New Energy System Construction 15th Five‑Year Plan, directing accelerated transformation of traditional industries — including steel, nonferrous, petrochemical, chemical and building‑materials — and promotion of electric boilers, electric heating and electrically assisted furnace/kiln heating. The plan calls for building green‑fuel storage, transport and refueling networks in key regions, city clusters and along transport corridors, advancing heavy‑truck charging/refueling facilities on major freight routes and speeding green‑power adoption for inland shipping such as the Yangtze. It also instructs optimizing and expanding natural gas use and advancing hydrogen blending into gas supplies.