Australia May NAB business confidence index 3, unchanged from prior reading of 3.

Houthi militants said they launched a volley of missiles targeting sensitive sites in Israel’s Jaffa area and announced an immediate, comprehensive ban on Israeli navigation in the Red Sea. The group said it will treat any Israeli movement in the area as a military target and pledged to escalate its military response in step with developments and in coordination with the resistance axis in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen. The statement framed the action as retaliation against U.S. and Zionist aggression and as a measure to break what it called an oppressive blockade.

The Democratic Republic of Congo health ministry said in an 8th report the Ebola outbreak remains on the rise. As of the 7th there are 550 confirmed cases, 101 deaths and 19 recoveries. The ministry cautioned a recent slight fall in new cases may reflect testing-data delays and does not indicate transmission is waning.