Iran's foreign ministry said the two countries' foreign ministers stressed keeping communication channels open and taking necessary bilateral measures to manage ties.

Bank of England deputy governor Lombardelli said monetary policy should not mechanically react to fluctuations in energy prices.

Domestic memory system-level test (SLT) equipment maker Oukangnuo will jointly develop a domestic memory and storage chip testing platform with CHINA'S CPU MAKER HAIGUANG. The platform will use Haiguang CPUs as the host and pair DRAM low-level test technology provided by a leading domestic memory chip maker with Oukangnuo’s self-developed domestic test system. Partners plan a formal release by year-end; the project is in final joint debugging and the product is expected to be mature and available externally by end-October.