俄羅斯總統普京特使迪米特里耶夫：（談及已故參議員格雷厄姆的制裁法案）該法案阻礙了俄美投資合作，美國越來越多的人認識到這是一個錯誤。

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs monitoring: as of 14:00 on Oct 16 the Agricultural Wholesale Price 200 Index was 112.88, down 0.44 points day-on-day; the "vegetable basket" wholesale index was 112.75, down 0.44 points. National wholesale prices at 14:00 — pork 15.70 yuan/kg (-0.6% d/d); beef 73.61 yuan/kg (+0.7%); mutton 67.82 yuan/kg (+0.2%); eggs 9.61 yuan/kg (-0.9%); dressed chicken 17.26 yuan/kg (+0.9%).

ECB Governing Council member Rehn said the labor market is not tight and the slowdown in wage growth is continuing.