Japan Economy Watchers Survey current conditions index for October 46.1, previous 47.0.

SoftBank Group CFO Yoshimitsu Goto said claims that the group has defaulted on payments for turbine orders are entirely false and that the account in Elon Musk’s post on X is not factual.

China's National Health Commission, National Healthcare Security Administration, National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the CDC on the 10th issued a notice to further improve safe, rational allocation and use of innovative drugs, focusing on promoting rational allocation, strengthening training and guidance, easing use conditions and improving management. The notice directs implementation of pharmacy-related medical service pricing items, pledges enhanced support measures to optimize the policy environment for innovative drugs, states medical institutions will not be restricted on total drug varieties/specifications, and clarifies relevant innovative drugs will be excluded from public hospitals' performance-monitoring indicators, including outpatient and inpatient per‑visit drug-cost growth.