Oct 28, 2026 — Assistant Foreign Minister Cai Wei met with Friedrich, former vice president of the German Bundestag, during his visit to China.

Australia's trimmed-mean CPI for the three months to September rose 3.7% YoY, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday, above the prior quarter and economists' 3.6% forecast. The policy-sensitive three-year government bond yield climbed as much as 8bps to 4.93%. Traders now price a 78% probability of an RBA rate hike at next Tuesday's policy meeting, up from 70% before the data. ANZ rates strategist Robert Thompson said a hike is now essentially certain given recent RBA comments and worrying report details — core inflation remains too high and market services prices have risen again after stripping volatile items — and he would be very surprised if the RBA did not raise rates.

Updated exit poll from Israeli public broadcaster KAN Channel 11 projects Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, will win 27 Knesset seats. Netanyahu's bloc and Gadi Eisenkot's bloc were tied at 51 seats each.