U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said Japan may have intervened in the foreign-exchange market earlier on Thursday.

Bank of Japan says it will continue to raise interest rates as warranted by developments in the economy, price trends and financial conditions.

China State Planner policy research office director and spokesperson Jiang Yi said at a press briefing on the 31st that China's container multimodal transport has expanded rapidly but faces equipment-standard mismatches, fragmented documentation rules and poor last-mile rail connections into ports and industrial parks, weighing on costs and efficiency. The agency said it will vigorously promote a 'one-document, one-container, one-price' model to drive cost reductions and efficiency gains.