Waller: If inflation data rises again, I would treat it as a trend signal rather than short-term noise.

Chinese premier Li Qiang chaired a meeting with economic experts and entrepreneurs, urging a smooth shift from old to new growth drivers by accelerating manufacturing’s digital-intelligent transformation and deeper integration of advanced manufacturing with modern services. He called for scaling commercial deployment of AI and other emerging technologies to cultivate new industries and sectors, implementing job-stabilization measures—expanding and upgrading positions and creating new occupations—to ensure overall employment stability, and promptly addressing business concerns by further optimizing the business environment and using reforms to boost market vitality and support firms.

Ukrainian parliamentary speaker says Prime Minister Svyrydenko has submitted his resignation.