A NATO senior military official said Russia must understand any action in the Baltic region would not succeed.

A joint statement by the United States and other countries also cited an Iranian threat to North America.

China night session open: main futures contracts mostly higher. Coke jumped over 2%; caustic soda, alumina, ethylene glycol (EG), methanol and coking coal rose more than 1%; propylene and SC crude were up about 1%. On the downside, Shanghai gold fell over 2%; Shanghai silver, zinc, nickel and synthetic rubber dropped more than 1%; international copper, styrene (EB) and Shanghai copper were down around 1%.