UK August unadjusted output PPI YoY 3.7% (consensus 3.3%); prior reading revised to 3.3% from 3.10%.

Iranian media reported on the 16th that multiple explosions were heard on Qeshm Island in southern Iran.

China's National Bureau of Statistics issued its statistical reform and development 15th Five-Year plan, directing a strengthening of comprehensive consumption statistics: produce province-level estimates for goods and services retail sales; refine classification and methodology for total retail sales of consumer goods; expand service-consumption measurement and underlying data sources and advance regional services retail-sales estimates; enhance monitoring of new consumption formats and online retail; and improve the household consumption expenditure survey.