09:33:54
Shinichi Uchida, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan: Every policy has a cost, and there is no free lunch in the world.
09:33:39
Shinichi Uchida, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan: The Bank of Japan will maintain the policy framework because we have not seen sustained and stable inflation hitting the price target.
09:32:49
Shinichi Uchida, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan: There is still a long way to go before the conditions for raising the short-term interest rate target are ripe.
09:32:29
Shinichi Uchida, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan: At present, the risk of exiting easing policy too early and losing the opportunity to achieve the price target is greater than the risk of tightening policy too late.
09:31:58
Shinichi Uchida, deputy governor of the Bank of Japan: will continue to implement easing policy patiently.
09:29:10
US Geological Survey: 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck 279 kilometers southeast of Port Blair, India.
08:34:20
Bank of Korea: There is high uncertainty about oil prices, weather conditions and economic growth.
08:31:36
Bank of Korea: Inflation to rebound from August and remain around 3% by year-end.
08:30:12
US Geological Survey: 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck 282 kilometers south of Portblair, India.
08:09:54
The Nikkei 225 index fell back below 33,000 points, down 1.41% on the day.
08:03:25
[Tunisian President Saeed announced the appointment of a new prime minister] Based on reports from Reuters and Agence France-Presse, in the early morning of August 2 local time, the Tunisian Presidential Palace announced in a statement that President Keith Saeed had appointed Ahmed Ahmed Hachani is the new prime minister. Saeed had previously sacked former Prime Minister Najera Budden Ramadan.
07:47:35
New Zealand Finance Minister Robertson: We need to deal with the weakening of the global environment.
07:33:10
U.S. 10-year Treasury yield fell 3BP in early trading to 4.013%
07:22:46
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will address the UN Security Council at 10 a.m. local time on August 3.
06:33:34
Geely Automobile (00175.HK): Auto sales in July were 138,100 units, a year-on-year increase of 13%.
06:16:47
[U.S. official: Fitch’s downgrade is not expected to have an impact on U.S. borrowing costs] U.S. officials said Fitch’s decision was absurd and baseless, and we met with Fitch prior to the downgrade decision to express our dissatisfaction , the current US fiscal brinkmanship is problematic, but not new, and borrowing costs are not expected to be affected.
06:12:52
U.S. Department of Energy: Due to current poor market conditions, the Department of Energy withdrew its proposal to purchase 6 million barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
06:02:57
[Fitch downgraded U.S. ratings, U.S. stock indexes fell] The Nasdaq 100 index futures opened down 0.8%, the S&P 500 index futures fell 0.6%, and the U.S. dollar index DXY weakened in Asia. Fitch previously downgraded the U.S. rating to AA+.
06:01:16
The U.S. dollar index DXY fell 25 points in early Asian trade after Fitch downgraded the U.S. rating to "AA+".
06:00:26
Spot gold opened $6 higher and is now at $1,950 an ounce.