Indian trade official: Most oil payments to Russia are still paid in US dollars.

Shares of UnitedHealth ( UNH.N ) rose 2.5% in premarket trading after its second-quarter adjusted earnings per share topped estimates.

German Chancellor Scholz: Germany needs a stronger military in the long run.

Indian trade official: Some oil payments to Russia are in yuan.

German Chancellor Scholz: Germany will act flexibly and pragmatically on border control issues.

German Chancellor Scholz spoke of cooperative relations with other countries, especially with Japan, South Korea and Indonesia. He said those relationships were good and hoped they would continue.

German Chancellor Scholz emphasized that the German government does not have the ability to make decisions on the business activities of enterprises every day, and enterprises can carry out economic activities on a global scale without government intervention.

German Chancellor Scholz: Germany is a global economy with close ties with all parts of the world.

Bank of America: The Bank of America Bull and Bear Index rose to 3.5 from 3.2 as bond inflows increased and credit market technicals improved.

Bank of America: Bank loan inflows ($200 million) for third straight week, longest streak since May 2022.

Bank of America: Stock inflows have accelerated in the past 7 weeks; technology stocks saw the largest inflows in 4 weeks at $2 billion; the medical sector saw the largest outflows in 5 months at $1.1 billion; this is a defensive aversion.

Bank of America: Inflows into U.S. Treasuries were the most in 16 weeks ($8.7 billion), the CPI data was not a surprise, but the price action was a surprise, so investors were forced to cover short positions.

Bank of America: $12.1 billion in bonds, $11.6 billion in equities, $500 million in gold and $17.6 billion in cash last week.

According to TASS: The Kremlin declined to comment on the information related to General Popov.

German Geoscience Research Center GFZ: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Chiapas, Mexico.

Indian trade official: RBI will issue guidance in 2-3 days to help resolve some issues in rupee trading.

Indian trade official: The problem with rupee trade is that it can only be used as a barter currency.

Indian trade official: Russia has amassed a lot of rupees due to defense trade.

Market news: India said that the launch of Chandrayaan-3 was successful.

The Bank of Japan is reported to be likely to raise its inflation forecast for fiscal 2023 to above 2%.