China's CSI 500 index futures (IC) most-active contract is down 1.00% intraday at 7,688.0 points.

On the 23rd an IRGC spokesman said Iran has prepared response plans for a range of US hostile actions, explicitly including measures to counter economic pressure. He said recent US statements about waging the "most severe economic war" against Iran reflect Washington's failure to achieve military objectives and are intended to exert psychological pressure on the Iranian public; he added the US has imposed economic sanctions on Iran for 47 years.

At a refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, a 14-year-old Palestinian boy was shot by Israeli forces, wounded and later died. Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes on central and southern Gaza on the 23rd killed at least two people, including a 4-year-old, and wounded several others.