Customs: China's Jan–Jul automobile exports, including chassis, totaled 6.399 million units.

SK Hynix briefly hit the limit-down in pre-market trading on South Korea’s alternative trading platform NEXTRADE (NXT) after an 11-share trade at 1,168,000 KRW around 08:00 local time, a 29.97% drop versus the prior close. Trading later resumed and the decline quickly narrowed to about 3–4%. NXT says it will introduce a static volatility interruption (VI) next month to block orders that deviate sharply from the previous close from executing immediately.

Federal Reserve's MUSALEM said the probability that inflation will remain above target has risen, and that he leaned toward a rate hike at the recent FOMC meeting.