LSEG IBES data shows European corporates' Q3 revenues are forecast to rise 10.6%, unchanged from a week earlier.

China’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) issued Domestic Route Flight Review Optimization Measures to curb excessive carrier concentration and homogeneous competition on some routes. The measures tighten market-entry controls and flight-volume management, adjust scheduling and operating-permit exit rules. Market access will be regulated using carrier count, passenger load factor and passenger throughput to steer orderly route entry and resource allocation. Flight-volume reviews will adopt improved metrics and include support measures for trunk and basic network routes to guide airlines’ capacity deployment. Operating-permit rules clarify continuous-compliance requirements, flight-execution rate calculation, incentives for voluntary permit return or cancellation, and operational-efficiency supervision to strengthen permit management and exit mechanisms.

Bank of England Governor Bailey said evidence that energy costs are passing through to broader inflation is currently relatively weak, but risks remain.