Fitch: rising interest rates are improving the operating environment for Japanese banks.

Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said on the morning of the 14th that a passenger ferry capsized and remains overturned and afloat in the Java Sea. As of dawn on the 14th the incident has left six dead and 129 still missing; the vessel was carrying 243 people when it capsized on the 13th after reporting severe weather. Rescue operations have deployed multiple ships, aircraft and helicopters, navy divers and special forces frogmen, and maritime drones to search for the missing.

Spot silver fell below $63/oz, down 2.28% on the day.