Romanian MEP Siegfried Muresan said he has accepted the president's nomination to serve as Romania's prime minister.

Yen and other Asian currencies weakened after the Fed’s first rate hike in three years, increasing pressure on the BOJ; the yen has fallen more than 1.1% since the decision while the dollar rose 0.7% against a basket of major trading partners. Mitul Kotecha, head of Asia FX and EM macro strategy at Barclays, said the moves leave Asian currencies disadvantaged and make a BOJ rate hike "almost inevitable." RBC Capital Markets Asia macro strategist Abbas Keshvani said the region faces a double hit—being largely energy importers and seeing renewed dollar attraction from Fed tightening—meaning many Asian central banks will struggle to compete.

U.S. natural gas futures extended gains, rising 2.1%, after the EIA reported storage increases were below expectations.