UK May seasonally adjusted non-EU trade balance: -7.138 bln pounds; April revised from -13.048 bln to -12.209 bln.

Japan's finance minister KATAYAMA said the government cannot intervene in or compel pension funds' portfolio management.

As of July 15, 1,668 A-share companies have published 2026 H1 profit previews; 902 forecast YoY net-profit growth and 181 expect turnarounds from loss to profit. Profit-up counts are concentrated in AI computing power, commercial space, electronics manufacturing, chemicals and nonferrous metals, and new energy; hard-tech subsectors such as memory chips and fiber-optic communications show outsized profit previews driven by rising product prices and expanding demand. Under combined policy support and market demand, hard technology and high-end manufacturing are emerging as key engines of earnings growth, signaling initial effects of China’s economic structural adjustment.