South Korea’s household lending growth slowed in September to its weakest since March, the Bank of Korea said on Thursday, ahead of next week’s policy decision. Household loans rose 600 bln won (about $444m) to 1,198.9 tln won, the smallest monthly increase since March. Mortgage lending rose 2.9 tln won, the weakest pace since April, as deposit-based jeonse lease transactions cooled and the supply of newly move-in-ready homes fell. Other household loans, including unsecured and stock-collaterali

China's Ministry of Transport has issued guidance on AI application scenarios in the water-transport sector, directing development of AI-based safety management systems that leverage knowledge graphs, large language models (LLMs) and process automation for automated compliance checks, autonomous hazard detection and online personalized training to raise port safety controls. The guidance targets high-risk scenarios — human–machine joint operations, ship–shore hazardous-goods handling, hot work and confined-space operations, and severe-weather operations — and mandates scenario-based risk simulation and quantitative assessment models integrating video recognition, multi-source data collection and pervasive intelligent sensing to enable early risk identification, dynamic monitoring, intelligent analysis and automated warnings.

Spain September HICP final YoY 5.0% — in line with expectations and previous 5.0%.