日本软银集团股价上涨4%。

The yen rose 1.1% to 154.56 per dollar, its strongest since February and above levels reached after the US-Japan joint intervention. The rebound was aided by rising bets on Bank of Japan policy tightening and speculation that the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) may shift asset allocations. Markets have questioned the long-term effectiveness of coordinated Tokyo-Washington intervention in recent weeks. Japan’s top FX official Atsushi Mimura said last Friday his stance on the yen has not changed even as the currency strengthened. JPMorgan strategists warn a break above the 155 per dollar level could prompt accelerated covering of large short positions, further boosting the yen.

A measurement team led by the Hunan Society of Agronomy with experts from the China National Rice Research Institute and Wuhan University recorded 530.4 kg per mu from a large-scale hybrid rice seed-production demonstration plot in Wuyang town, Suining County, Shaoyang, Hunan — the first reported seed-production yield to exceed 1,000 jin per mu. The plot used the super-rice hybrid Shuangliang You 138. China’s hybrid rice planting area remains above 200 mln mu; cumulative promoted area exceeded 10 bln mu by 2025. High seed costs and long-running seed-production yields of around 160 kg/mu have been identified as a major constraint on the sector’s sustainable development.