Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: "Safely addressing household debt risks" remains a key objective.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: The current level of foreign exchange is not a cause for concern.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: Interest rates are at the upper end of the neutral range or higher.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: It is inappropriate to comment on whether South Korea can cut interest rates before the United States.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: The Bank of Korea may at some point take a different policy direction from the Fed.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: Interest rate policy has not weakened growth momentum yet.

Lee Changyong, Governor of the Bank of Korea: The possibility of interest rate cuts within this year is not ruled out.

Lee Changyong, Governor of the Bank of Korea: The six members of the Monetary Policy Committee are open to raising interest rates again to 3.75%.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: The focus is still on whether interest rates need to be raised.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: It is too early to discuss interest rate cuts.

Lee Changyong, Governor of the Bank of Korea: Fed action Dow foreign exchange volatility is inevitable.

Lee Changyong, Governor of the Bank of Korea: The uncertainty of the US monetary policy is very high.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: Efforts need to be made to control the ratio of household debt to GDP.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Changyong: The recent increase in household debt has exceeded expectations.

Lee Changyong, Governor of the Bank of Korea: It will take quite a long time for the CPI to reach the target level.

Central Bank of Sri Lanka: Need to quickly make room for further adjustments in market interest rates.

Central Bank of Sri Lanka: It is expected that with the recent monetary policy easing measures, the overall market lending rate will fall faster.

The central bank of Sri Lanka kept the benchmark lending rate at 12.00%.

Traders: Asian high-grade dollar bond spreads narrowed to as low as 1 basis point.

Traders: The Markit ITRAXX Asia ex-Japan investment grade index fell about 9 basis points; Asia ex-Japan credit default swap (CDS) yields are expected to see the largest contraction in more than nine months.