日本首相高市早苗：如果我們推遲未來的投資，日本將失去增長的機會。

Hong Kong stocks opened higher and the Hang Seng reclaimed the 25,000 mark, hitting an intraday high of 25,206 (up as much as 243 points). At midday the Hang Seng was up 0.81% and the Hang Seng Tech index was up 1.69%, with market turnover HKD 111.23 bln. Sector winners included media & entertainment, travel, consumer electronics, new consumer, airlines and autos; road transport, semiconductors, oil & gas, optical communications and coal lagged. Notable movers: 00805.HK +22%, Xiaomi Group (01810.HK) +7.6%, 00100.HK +5%; 02513.HK, Trip.com Group (09961.HK) and Meituan (03690.HK) each rose over 3.5%.

Three sources say the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) Black Sea terminal is expected to resume crude loading on Monday after a one-week suspension.