Japan bought foreign bonds worth 199.7 bln yen in the week to June 19; prior reading revised from 382.6 bln yen to 382.5 bln yen.

The State Administration for Market Regulation said China registered 373,000 new enterprises in 8+9 industries (eight emerging and nine future sectors) in Jan-Apr 2026. Generative AI saw 34,000 new firms, up 24.9% YoY; humanoid robots added 78,000 new firms, up 13.3%; quantum information exceeded 7,000 new firms, up 8.9%.

Venezuela experienced consecutive M7+ earthquakes, followed shortly by an M7.2 off Japan’s northeast coast; California recorded an M5.6 the same day. Lucy Jones, senior seismologist at Caltech, said the events are not causally linked: they occurred on different faults and plate boundaries, so one quake did not trigger another. Timing may be coincidental; each quake struck known active plate boundaries where stress has accumulated over decades to centuries, and while large quakes are part of the natural cycle in these regions, precise timing remains unpredictable.