China PET bottle-chip most-active contract hit the daily limit, down 6.02% at 7,676 yuan/ton.

Indonesia launched a tiered USD sovereign sukuk sale on Thursday — its first dollar bond offering since MSCI warned last month it could remove Indonesian local equities. The deal comprises three tranches (3-, 5- and 10-year) with initial price guidance near 5.7%, 6.1% and 6.55%; the 3-year priced at about 5.7%. MSCI said Indonesia's remediation efforts were insufficient and the country could be downgraded two notches to a category alongside Zimbabwe. The last Indonesian sovereign dollar issuance was in May, $2bn across two tranches.

REUTERS SURVEY: Forecasts the Romanian leu will weaken 0.7% against the euro over the next six months to 5.3829 from a prior forecast of 5.295.