At the FX open, the dollar index (DXY) fell 0.16% to 101.31; AUD/USD rose 0.23%; USD/JPY fell 0.16%; EUR/USD rose 0.18%.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the Russia-Ukraine fighting and relaunch the 2022 Istanbul negotiations. Tokayev made the appeal during a Saturday meeting with Putin in Omsk, Siberia, saying he had received multiple signals from Europe and the US and was passing them on. He said it may be time to freeze the conflict and restart an "Istanbul talks 2.0," citing the significant results of the early negotiations. The report described the appeal as a rare public peace signal from one of Moscow's closest partners.

Chey Tae-won, head of SK Hynix, said South Korea must become an "AI-native" country, targeting "each person to have at least one AI agent," which would make Korea a global AI testing ground. He said SK Group will increase R&D investment to support AI development and stressed cutting AI costs is critical, calling current costs "too high." He said Korea can lower costs by scaling storage-chip production and building more AI data centers, aiming to position the country as a global AI data-center hub linking the US, Europe and Asia.