The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 1%.

Spot gold hit $2,320 an ounce, up 0.18% on the day.

Hawaiian Electric Company: The energy conservation call on the island of Hawaii has been lifted and customers can resume normal power use. The generation margin has been restored to a level where the conservation call can be lifted. The company and independent power producer Hamakua Energy will continue to troubleshoot and repair the outage generating units.

Argentine President Mille: When CPI falls again, the key interest rate will be lowered.

Japan will sell 500 billion yen of debt on May 2.

Market News: The United States and Niger cannot reach an agreement on security cooperation.

Japan will issue 5.8 trillion yen of three-month Treasury bills on May 2.

The Philippine peso fell 0.6% to 57.92 against the dollar, its lowest level since November 2022.

The USD/JPY exchange rate continued to hit a 34-year high and is now at 155.40.

Market news: South Korea announced details of short-selling regulatory platform.

[The cause of the power outage on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan is still under investigation] According to Japanese media reports on April 25 local time, Okinawa Electric Power Company said that a large-scale power outage occurred on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture at around 3 a.m. local time that day. As of 8 a.m. local time, the number of households without power reached 25,490, and almost the entire island was in a power outage. Okinawa Electric Power Company said that as of 8 a.m., no large-scale hardware failures or other problems had been confirmed, and the cause of the power outage is still under investigation.

[US Central Command says it intercepted missiles and drones from Houthi forces in Yemen] The US Central Command issued a statement saying that at 11:51 Sana time on April 24, Yemen, a coalition warship successfully intercepted an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) launched from the Houthi-controlled area in Yemen over the Gulf of Aden. The statement said that the target of the anti-ship ballistic missile was likely a ship flying the US flag, owned and operated by the United States, with 18 American crew members and 4 Greek crew members on board. No reports of casualties or damage to ships were received by the United States, the coalition or merchant ships. In addition, from 12:07 to 13:26 Sana time, the US Central Command successfully shot down and destroyed four drones in the Houthi-controlled area in Yemen.

Foreign investors bought 144.18 billion yen of Japanese bonds in the week ending April 19, compared with 50.7 billion yen in the previous week.

Japan bought 648.1 billion yen of foreign bonds in the week ending April 19, compared with -100.59 billion yen in the previous period.

Goldman Sachs: Henry Hub natural gas prices are expected to return to the lower end of the $2/MMBtu range this summer.

SK Hynix: Will increase the supply and customer base of HBM3E.