Intercontinental Exchange (ICE): As of the week of August 15, the speculative net long position in diesel increased by 5,703 contracts to 93,941 contracts.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE): As of the week of August 15, the speculative net long position of Brent crude oil futures increased by 19,748 contracts to 230,735 contracts.

The Fed accepted a total of 1.819 trillion U.S. dollars from 98 counterparties in fixed-rate reverse repurchase operations, the first time since August 8 that it has risen above 1.8 trillion U.S. dollars.

Baker Hughes: U.S. drillers cut oil and gas rigs for a sixth week in a row.

The total number of drilling rigs in the United States until the week of August 18 was 642, compared with the previous value of 654.

According to the New York Times: Trump plans to skip the US Republican presidential debate.

Citigroup: A fall in the S&P 500 towards 4,200 will create re-entry opportunities.

Brent crude oil rose more than 1.00% in the day and is now reported at $84.32/barrel; WTI crude oil is now up 1.11% at $80.43/barrel.

USD/JPY traded 0.50% lower on the day at 145.11.

According to the New York Times, citing U.S. officials, the death toll of Ukrainian troops is close to 70,000, with between 100,000 and 120,000 wounded.

According to the New York Times, citing U.S. officials, Russian military casualties approached 300,000, including as many as 120,000 dead.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: Japan will provide assistance for the Hawaiian wildfires.

The statement showed that Italy had notified the European Central Bank on August 10 that it would impose a windfall profit tax on banks.

According to the Wall Street Journal: Softbank acquired a 25% stake in ARM at a valuation of US$64 billion.

The three major U.S. stock indexes narrowed their losses. The Dow took the lead in turning up. The Nasdaq fell 0.56%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.22%.

National Hurricane Center: "Hillary" is expected to weaken into a tropical storm before arriving in Southern California on Sunday afternoon local time.