中國8月M2貨幣供應年率 7.5%，預期7.6%，前值7.7%。

TASNIM NEWS: Iran's National Petroleum Products Distribution Company denied reports it would cancel 3,000- and 5,000-rial/liter gasoline quotas for vehicles valued over 1 bln rial. It said all existing private passenger cars — excluding government, imported, free-trade-zone vehicles and second-or-later cars registered to the same owner — will keep monthly quotas of 60 liters at 1,500 rial/liter and 50 liters at 3,000 rial/liter. A working group is studying raising the 1 bln rial price cap used to determine quota eligibility for newly produced private cars amid market changes. The company said quota allocation and volumes are unchanged; only the third-tier price was increased from 5,000 to 10,000 rial/liter.

Iran's acting defense minister Ibn al-Reza, speaking at a defense-industry managers' meeting, said he was confident that if war broke out again Iran would fight on a far stronger, more technologically advanced level than in past conflicts. He said those who call Iran's technical activity, production lines and weapons factories mere media narratives have seen Iranian forces' capabilities on the battlefield; current displays are only a small part of actual capacity and potential, and development will continue strongly.