New Zealand Q2 manufacturing activity volume +0.8% QoQ; prior +3.6%.

Iran's envoy to the IAEA warned US or Israeli strikes on Iran's IAEA-safeguarded peaceful nuclear facilities, if 'normalized', would have serious consequences. He said the Bushehr nuclear power plant meets all safety standards.

Guangdong Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development convened developers on Sept. 8 to assess how recent real-estate development model policies affect projects and to gather firms’ requests for policy support and comments on local implementation. The department will collect firm-level inventories by permit stage — land acquired but no construction-planning permit, planning permit obtained but no presale permit, and presale permit obtained but still on sale — including project counts, floor area, unit numbers and geographic distribution. Officials asked firms to assess policy impacts on development, sales, handover, financing and debt, and to provide their implementation plans, desired policy support and suggestions for local implementation rules.