Japan's finance minister Katayama said she will not comment on specific exchange-rate levels.

US Central Command said on social media on the 15th that, since restarting a maritime blockade of Iranian ports 17 hours earlier, it had forced two merchant vessels attempting to breach the blockade to divert.

The Supreme People's Procuratorate said in 1H it prosecuted 58,000 people for crimes disrupting market order. It handled 11,000 cases of improper cross‑region or profit‑seeking enforcement, supervised withdrawal of 1,060 cases and decisions not to prosecute 1,324, and oversaw release/return of seized or frozen assets totalling 850 mln yuan. In coordination with the State Taxation Administration and other agencies it prosecuted 3,485 people for tax‑related crimes. It prosecuted 4,435 people for smuggling, including cases involving strategic minerals, and 4,759 for antitrust and unfair competition offences (damaging reputation, forced transactions). The procuratorate also filed 128 public‑interest lawsuits to support construction of a unified national market.