President Erdogan said Turkey's financial system has no risk contagion.

At the morning-session close, China's main futures contracts were mostly lower. Lithium carbonate and Shanghai silver fell more than 4%, live hogs dropped over 3%, palladium declined nearly 3%, and coking coal, red dates, glass and Shanghai gold were down over 2%. On the upside, the Europe container-shipping route jumped over 5%, methanol gained more than 4%, fuel oil rose over 3%, Dalian soybean No.1 was up about 2%, and propylene, LPG, polysilicon and asphalt advanced over 1%.

Japan 2-year government bond yield rose 2.5 bps intraday to 1.960%.