U.S. natural gas futures fell more than 3% intraday, trading at $2.874/MMBtu.

President Trump said he could not say what U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during talks in Israel.

PBOC Deputy Governor and SAFE head Zhu Hexin told the 2026 Financial Street Forum fintech conference that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period China will seize the AI opportunity, make financial digitalization and intelligent transformation the policy focus, and actively but prudently deepen AI+ while orderly advancing the release of financial data elements’ value to push fintech into a new intelligent phase. He set four priorities: drive mutual enablement between AI and finance; accelerate monetization and broader use of financial data elements; keep risks controllable by building a security firewall for new-technology applications; and use standards to strengthen compliant innovation in financial technology.