Ukraine President ZELENSKIY is considering replacing the prime minister as part of a political-strategy shift and may nominate the head of the state oil and gas company, Serhiy Kolyetsky, or former prime minister and current energy minister Denys Shmyhal. ZELENSKIY met both candidates and has asked incumbent Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko to take responsibility for new strategic partnership work. He said winter preparedness is a top priority and called for accelerated transformation of state-o

Two strategists in OCBC Bank’s research unit say any change to the Government Pension Investment Fund’s asset allocation is unlikely to happen quickly after comments by Japan’s finance minister Katayama last Friday. They said such a shift would "require broad government coordination," and doubted it "alone would be sufficient to address core fiscal concerns or change perceptions that the Bank of Japan remains behind the curve." They added the yen’s decisive shift from a funding currency to an investment currency would "likely require more fundamental policy changes."

据伊朗媒体Fars News：伊朗阿巴斯港以东和格什姆岛沿海地区传出数起爆炸声，原因尚不清楚。