ARAMCO CEO says shipping oil to Asia via the Suez Canal takes 20-25 days longer than via the Strait of Hormuz.

Within two trading days of a regulator-imposed margin increase, trading in single-stock leveraged and inverse ETFs on KOSPI has collapsed. Korea Exchange said on the 3rd that turnover in 16 KOSPI-listed single-stock leveraged/inverse ETFs tied to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix was 1.2388 trillion won, down 58.6% from 2.9907 trillion won on the implementation day and about one-tenth of the 12.4485 trillion won traded on the last session before the change. Regulators raised the minimum cash margin for single-stock leveraged ETF investors from 10 million won to 30 million won. Retail trading in these products fell to 250.7 billion won, under a quarter of 929.9 billion won on the implementation day.

美國總統特朗普：美國代理司法部長布蘭奇將會做得很好。