The People's Bank of China released August 2026 financial statistics on Sept 14. Its estimates show bond and equity financing accounted for 50.31% of the increase in social financing in the first eight months of 2026, surpassing loans and about 20 percentage points higher than five years ago. Corporate bonds' share of social financing growth rose to 11.67%, up roughly 5.8 percentage points year-on-year.

Iranian forces fired on three merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz; a Qatari LNG carrier was set alight and other ships were damaged. According to five government officials and two IRGC members, President Pezeshkian angrily phoned IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi, who told him he had neither approved nor been notified of the action; the Supreme National Security Council likewise said it was not informed. Officials say a marginal hardline faction acted independently, and the covert operation derailed moderates’ efforts to negotiate with the United States and to repair Iran’s weak economy.

日本內閣官房長官木原稔：將在適當控制債券發行規模的同時編制預算。