US April new-home sales annualized 622,000, vs. 665,000 expected; March revised down to 663,000 from 682,000.

The Australian health minister said Australia will extend the quarantine period to 42 days for returning cruise passengers linked to hantavirus cases.

Brendan Schulman, vice president for policy and government affairs at Boston Dynamics, said at the Tokyo Humanoid Robot Summit that to date robotics technology has been only lightly affected by geopolitical pressure, but that could change soon. He said Washington policymakers are beginning to focus on robotics. He added that general government policies (for example, tariffs on metals) also affect robots because they affect supply chains.