CSI 300 index futures (IF) main contract up 0.55%; SSE 50 index futures (IH) main contract up 0.40%; CSI 500 index futures (IC) main contract up 0.84%; CSI 1000 index futures (IM) main contract up 0.86%.

美國至8月14日當週EIA精煉廠設備利用率 97.2%，前值96.2%。

South Korea's KOSPI closed up nearly 6% on Thursday, rebounding from the prior session's selloff as semiconductor stocks led gains. SK Hynix jumped 12.73% after announcing a buyback and retirement of treasury shares and a plan to allocate more than 50% of free cash flow in 2025–27 to shareholder returns. Samsung Electronics rose 9.49% amid media reports it may announce a shareholder-return plan by month-end. U.S. Treasury proposals to support long-term Treasuries temporarily eased a recent spike in long-term U.S. Treasury yields and steadied investor sentiment, Future Asset Securities' Seo Sang-young said.