Thailand's benchmark stock index fell 2.4% to 1,462.06 points.

IMF Managing Director GEORGIEVA said the current moment is especially critical for central bank officials, who need the ability to see through uncertainty.

Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development released its 15th Five-Year housing plan, directing that by 2030 urban housing stock should remain stable while supply structure is adjusted to better match changing demand. The plan prioritises a stronger mixed social-housing-and-market supply system, continued market stability and a dual rent-and-buy framework, accelerated reforms of foundational real estate institutions, and tighter management of residential land and commodity-housing supply timing; it also calls for urban renewal and closer coordination of housing with population, industry, land, transport and ecology to raise livability by 2035.