Brazil swap-contract trading resumed; equity trading remains suspended.

Mimura, Japan's top foreign-exchange official, said Japan's contacts on foreign exchange are not limited to the United States.

The CSI‑Hang Seng Shanghai‑HK Connect AH Smart Index has added GigaDevice Semiconductor and Montage Technology and removed China Southern Airlines and China Railway Construction. The change signals the index’s representation shifting from traditional cyclicals, infrastructure and airlines toward semiconductors and hard tech, increasing the semiconductor sector’s weighting and strengthening Hong Kong pricing as an anchor for AH chip names. GigaDevice and Montage sit at the intersection of AI hardware, the memory cycle and the domestic compute narrative linked to ChangXin, so inclusion will amplify their role as AH technology proxies and expose them to index-driven flows tied to AH spreads, liquidity and cross‑border capital allocation.