UK First Secretary of State said the UK will strengthen employees' rights to flexible working arrangements.

As of 15:00, DR001 (overnight pledged repo) weighted average was 1.4281% and DR007 was 1.4234%; money-market rates are oscillating narrowly around the policy pivot. In September the PBOC rolled two tenors of outright reverse repos at equal amounts, ending a two-month pattern of increasing volumes; the 3-month outright reverse repo on Sept. 3 was also rolled at an unchanged amount. Wang Qing, chief macro analyst at Orient Jincheng, said liquidity is relatively ample, and the PBOC has kept 7-day reverse-repo operations minimal or at zero since early September to prevent market rates from drifting materially below the policy rate. Ongoing growth-support measures — including accelerated government bond issuance and expedited deployment of 800 billion yuan in new policy financial instruments — will require continued PBOC liquidity support.

Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) repurchased 229,000 shares for HK$100.6 mln on Sept 15.