Starmer said the new defence secretary has his own views on priorities.

Bank of Japan will stop conducting mid-term reviews of its plan to reduce bond purchases.

Bosera Fund manager Tang Yibing said the STAR Market is positioned as "hard tech", targeting high‑tech and strategic emerging companies that deliver national development objectives and breakthroughs in core technologies. He said A‑share Q1 corporate earnings overall beat expectations and, structurally, growth sectors led by the STAR Market are entering an acceleration phase. With China accelerating construction of a new power system, Tang said competition in the energy‑storage industry is likely to shift from single‑device contests to integrated capabilities—hardware, software and operations—and that digitalization in B2B energy‑storage applications offers broad commercial prospects.