Nebius said it will issue $4.5 billion of convertible bonds to support AI business development; shares fell 6%.

South Africa's main stock index rose 2% to 115,591.30 points.

Shanghai municipal government office issued the Digital Shanghai 15th Five-Year Plan, calling to optimize cross-border data flow mechanisms and extend the 'negative list + operational guidelines' model to more industries for data exports. The plan proposes exploring interregional personal information transfer standards, building rule‑mutual‑recognition 'aggregate‑to‑aggregate' cross-border data transfer service facilities to scale standardized compliance services, accelerating service‑center deployment, strengthening policy consulting and preliminary verification of negative‑list materials, and advancing multilateral and bilateral pilot projects to facilitate cross-border data cooperation.