世界大型企業聯合會：消費者對未來12個月的平均和中位數通脹預期均小幅下降，但仍處於較高水平。預計未來12個月利率將繼續上升的消費者佔比（淨值）升至接近50%。

METI will provide ¥387.3 billion (approx 16.2 billion yuan) as 2026 fiscal-year development commission fees to a new SoftBank-led company, Noetra, to develop a domestic AI foundation model. The support targets physical-AI R&D that combines robotics and AI to strengthen Japan’s manufacturing competitiveness. Noetra, formed around SoftBank, NEC, Honda and Sony, will focus on high-level Japanese-language understanding and reasoning and on multimodal foundation models that recognise images, video, audio and physical space. The project has been selected for support by NEDO.

OMFIF survey shows that, for the first time, more central banks expect to reduce dollar allocations over the next decade than to increase them.