Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: The exchange rate is determined by the market.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: Rapid foreign exchange fluctuations are undesirable and will hurt households and businesses.

The U.S. ISM non-manufacturing supplier deliveries index in April was 48.5, compared with 45.4 in the previous month.

The U.S. ISM non-manufacturing inventory index in April was 53.7, compared with 45.6 in the previous month.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: We hope that foreign exchange will operate stably and we do not want foreign exchange volatility to be too high.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: Action may be needed to deal with excessive foreign exchange fluctuations.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: Excessive foreign exchange fluctuations are undesirable.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: Foreign exchange levels should reflect economic fundamentals.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki declined to comment on whether Japan would intervene.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: Commenting on whether the current foreign exchange level is appropriate may have an inappropriate impact on the market.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: Refused to comment on current foreign exchange levels.

OPEC: Kazakhstan will make a compensatory production cut of 389,000 barrels per day.

OPEC: Iraq will make compensatory production cuts of 602,000 barrels per day this year.

The Nasdaq 100 extended its gains to 2%.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Bowman: No further progress is seen on inflation this year.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Bowman: The recent acceleration in inflation is evident in many categories of goods and services.