Japan bought ¥147.7 bln of foreign equities in the week to June 26; prior reading revised from ¥426.8 bln to ¥426.7 bln.

BOC Governor Macklem said computer prices are rising in the near term.

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment has approved guidance to diversify investment in environmental technology innovation and has adopted new drinking‑water source water quality standards. The guidance calls for accelerating a diversified financing framework—strengthening fiscal guidance, expanding financial product supply and mobilizing social capital—to boost innovation supply and industrialization in the environmental sector. It mandates a full‑chain regulatory framework covering project approval, fund use, process supervision and performance evaluation, and requires more penetrating oversight and dynamic monitoring of innovation funding.