日本首相高市早苗：日本内阁将于周二批准从应急储备基金中释放超过200亿日元，用于地震灾区熊本的救助工作。

Federal Reserve Governor Williams said he remains optimistic inflationary pressures will ease but warned the Fed will not hesitate to raise rates if that does not occur. In a Reuters interview he said if energy prices and trade tariffs have peaked and the economy stays resilient, the main upward drivers of inflation from the past 18 months should wane and disinflationary forces should re-emerge. He is closely watching coming months' core inflation for consistency with a downward trend toward 2% and said the Fed aims to secure a stable 2% rate by 2028. Williams personally expects inflation to fall in H2 this year and to decline further next year, and he reiterated that the current policy stance is positioned to bring inflation back to target but that further tightening would be appropriate if the 2% path is not achieved.

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