Shanghai Gold Exchange Gold T+D closed down 0.25% at 900.6 yuan/gram on July 8 (Wednesday). Shanghai Gold Exchange Silver T+D closed down 0.27% at 14,824 yuan/kg.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Tuesday it found Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian national wanted by Monaco and Interpol over a June 29 bombing in Monaco that targeted businessman Vadim Yermolaev and his family, dead in Kyiv with a gunshot wound to the head. The SBU said an officer serving in the Defense Ministry's intelligence branch has confessed, with the assistance of a former law-enforcement officer, to killing Berezovska; the officer said the act was personal and was not reported to superiors. The Monaco blast injured three people, including a child; Interpol had issued a red notice for the 39-year-old suspect.

South Korea's finance ministry said it will closely monitor risk factors tied to stock-market volatility and will adjust government bond issuance size to maintain bond-market stability.