Spot gold fell nearly 1% intraday to $4,306.15/oz; New York futures gold declined 1% to $4,346.10/oz. Spot silver dropped about 2% to $63.17/oz.

Exclusive industry-sourced data: 14 Chinese wealth managers each with >CNY1trn AUM (6 from state-owned banks, 8 from joint-stock banks), representing roughly 80% of the market, held CNY27.4trn in outstanding assets at end-Aug and recorded >CNY280bn net inflow MoM. The Banking Wealth Management Registration and Custody Center put end-June market outstanding at CNY33.66trn; adding the 14 firms’ July and August inflows (CNY1.46trn and CNY0.28trn) implies a market size near CNY35.4trn. Jan–Aug net increase for these 14 firms was about CNY1.96trn. By product type, option-embedded products rose ~CNY1.98trn, non-cash pure-bond products rose ~CNY176bn, and cash products contracted by >CNY180bn.

Djibouti's navy commander told Al Jazeera that international shipping through the Bab al‑Mandeb Strait is not currently under direct threat.