German health authorities said the second US citizen infected with Ebola has been flown to Germany for treatment. The patient arrived overnight at Frankfurt airport and was transferred to a university hospital in the city. The CDC said the individual worked for a humanitarian organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Iran's foreign ministry said it will make decisions on nuclear issues and other matters affecting national security and sovereignty based on its own judgment.

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."