纽约期银日内涨幅扩大至1.00%，现报57.74美元/盎司。

Japan's minister for economic and fiscal policy Kiuchi said Japan's economy can no longer be described as deflationary.

Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said in an interview this week that Washington’s newly selected oil partner in Venezuela, Alejandro Betancourt, is implicated in "extremely serious corruption." She said if she returned to power she would not regard Betancourt as a viable commercial partner. Betancourt recently struck a lucrative deal with the Trump administration that gave him control of roughly one-fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves.