Canada Aug housing starts 229,000, below 240,000 expected; prior estimate revised to 229,400 from 229,100.

China's National Bureau of Statistics issued its statistical reform and development 15th Five-Year plan, directing a strengthening of comprehensive consumption statistics: produce province-level estimates for goods and services retail sales; refine classification and methodology for total retail sales of consumer goods; expand service-consumption measurement and underlying data sources and advance regional services retail-sales estimates; enhance monitoring of new consumption formats and online retail; and improve the household consumption expenditure survey.

According to the Iran Labour News Agency, the CEO of Iran Export Development Bank told the bank's ordinary shareholders meeting that net profit rose 44% in FY24/25.