ECB President Lagarde said higher energy prices will gradually feed through to core inflation and that food prices will likewise rise over time.

At a Sept. 10 press briefing, State Administration of Foreign Exchange deputy director and spokesperson Li Bin said SAFE will comprehensively deepen foreign-exchange management reform during the 15th Five‑Year Plan to build a more convenient, open, secure and intelligent FX management system. He said the “more convenient” objective focuses on making foreign-exchange services faster and easier for compliant, trustworthy market participants. SAFE will vigorously advance reform to expand banks' foreign‑exchange operations and refine a facilitation policy framework that favors compliance — “the more trustworthy, the more convenient” and “compliant parties go first.”

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman recorded a video for the Dallas GOP midterm convention in which he implicitly criticized his party and called for cooperation with former President Trump. He described himself as a common-sense Democrat who rejects extremism, expressed support for Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick, called his Jan. 2025 Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump positive and described Trump as kind and pleasant, said he backs Trump’s AI initiatives and that he will work with Trump to defend the US steel industry.