Spot gold's intraday gain widened to 1%, breaking above $3,970/oz.

China state planner said transport investment will remain sizable during the 15th Five-Year Plan. The authority said it has sped project approvals, strengthened construction monitoring and efficiently screened projects for central long-term special government bonds, local government special bonds and new policy financial instruments to support delivery. It will follow an “appropriately front‑loaded, not excessively front‑loaded” stance and deploy stronger, targeted measures to use transport investment to stabilise the economy, expanding emerging‑area spending while cutting low‑return, low‑utilisation and duplicative projects and strictly preventing speculative herding in new fields and business models.

烏克蘭總統澤連斯基：與德國總理默茨討論了烏克蘭防空能力不足問題。