Gazprom continued to ship gas to Europe via Ukraine, with 41.8 million cubic meters delivered on Wednesday.

Spot palladium fell 2.00% on the day and is now at $1362.30 an ounce.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Prices are expected to start to slow in the middle of the fiscal year.

Bank of Finland Governor Rehn: Will run for President of Finland in 2024.

Kazuo Ueda, Governor of the Bank of Japan: Corporate profits are high and capital spending is recovering.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: The Japanese economy is recovering.

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki: The asset management reform plan will be drafted before the end of the year.

Russian Ministry of Defense: All drones shot down.

UK public sector net debt (excluding banks) was 2.567 trillion pounds in May, equivalent to 100.1% of GDP.

EUR/GBP dipped 0.25% to 0.8531. GBP/JPY fell by more than 80 points in the short term and is now at 181.14.

Philippine Central Bank Governor Medalla: The Philippine central bank plans to use the overnight rate as a trading reference.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the Russian army lost 540 soldiers in the past day, as well as equipment such as 9 tanks, 21 armored vehicles and 35 tactical drones.

Turkish government: Extend car resale restrictions until January 1 next year.

National Hurricane Center: Storm Brett heading towards the Windy Islands.

Adachi Seiji, review member of the Bank of Japan: There is currently no system for using monetary policy to deal with the foreign exchange market.

Adachi Seiji, a review member of the Bank of Japan: It is difficult to determine whether the price in July has indeed exceeded expectations.

BoJ deliberation member Seiji Adachi: How to deal with our overshoot commitment will be linked to our decision on yield curve control (YCC).

Bank of Japan deliberation member Adachi Seiji: We will not only link monetary policy to price fluctuations, but will also look for any distortions in the bond yield curve and bond market function.