Spain's national gas company said LNG accounted for 50.7% of gas imports in June, with pipeline gas at 49.3%.

Douglas Research Advisory analyst Douglas Kim said SK Hynix’s ADR, set to begin trading on Nasdaq on Friday, could trade at a short-term premium of up to 17% versus its South Korea-listed shares. The $26.5 bln issuance would be the largest foreign-company listing on record. Kim cited two drivers of the expected ADR premium: some large institutional mandates limit investors to US-listed securities, and a potential narrowing of SK Hynix’s valuation discount to Micron and NVIDIA as investors consider strategies from outright ADR purchases to long-short pair trades. In Thursday Seoul trade, SK Hynix’s Korean shares rose as much as 1.0% to 2.208 mln won.

CENTCOM said a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet is taking off from a base in the Middle East.