US 4-week Treasury auction to Aug 27: share of allotment awarded at the stop-out rate 93.57%, prior 14.61%.

HIMINO, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, said the BOJ will weigh possible scenarios and risks — including the Middle East conflict, AI-driven demand and foreign exchange effects — when deciding the pace and timing of future rate hikes.

HICOOL launched a global OPC support plan targeting 58 mln OPC (one-person company) entrepreneurs, comprising five measures: a global OPC recruitment network, dedicated competitions, a corporate challenge programme, enablement services and a credit-evaluation system. The plan aims to close the support chain from discovery, community and training to overseas expansion and policy linkage, and HICOOL will broker corporate partnerships using a companies-set-tasks, entrepreneurs-solve-them model to connect solo founders with industrial resources.