France August flash manufacturing PMI 51.5, highest in four months.

The UK is drafting sanctions to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, indicating Prime Minister Burnham seeks a tougher stance on an issue important to left-leaning Labour voters. Foreign Secretary Miliband is weighing options over the next few weeks to increase pressure on Israel’s settlement expansion, including creating a new sanctions mechanism to block goods and services linked to West Bank settlements and expanding human-rights sanctions to cover obstruction of humanitarian aid. Miliband may also explicitly back the International Court of Justice’s 2024 non-binding opinion that Israel’s occupation of territories the UK recognizes as Palestinian is illegal.

Xiansheng Pharmaceutical (02096.HK) said its board authorised on‑market share repurchases of up to RMB1.0 billion in aggregate, to be carried out at appropriate times.