BOJ board member Ayano Sato said she will assess underlying inflation and review a range of data.

Bank of Mexico said it may begin buying Mexican federal treasury bills and floating-rate government bonds from Q3 to implement monetary policy adjustment.

Chengdu High‑Tech Zone firm Chengdu Zhongwei Daxin Technology Co Ltd unveiled a new-generation CSMC chip-scale molecular clock engineering prototype at the 2026 IEEE symposium on VLSI technology and circuits. The prototype reportedly delivered simultaneous improvements in long-term stability and short-term precision. The company said the advance marks a key step for domestically produced high-end on‑chip time‑frequency technology and provides new technical support for quantum technology development in Chengdu High‑Tech Zone.