USD/JPY fell about 20 pips intraday to 159.70.

Per Al Jazeera, the National Iranian Oil Company CEO said Kharg Island is calm and oil production has not been affected.

PICC vice president Cai Zhiwei told the insurer's 2026 interim results briefing that PICC's 2021 investment in ChangXin Memory Technologies delivered a return exceeding 20x, calculated using ChangXin's STAR Market IPO closing price on July 27, 2026. Cai said PICC will maintain a long-term investment approach and that its project pipeline already contains a number of high-quality assets expected to generate strong returns.