HKEX launches stock options on Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

PBOC'S PAN said the central bank will coordinate with the Hong Kong government and financial regulators on four priority areas to reinforce Hong Kong's international financial centre role. The PBOC will support the launch of offshore CNY sovereign bond futures — a five‑year CNY government bond futures contract is due to list shortly — to enhance offshore risk management. It will back development of a comprehensive financial trading platform, directing the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) to work with the HKMA and SFC to support upgrading Bond Connect Co. into a trading‑platform operator to provide trading infrastructure for bond, money and FX markets. The PBOC also plans to expand use of RMB bonds as eligible collateral offshore and to continue promoting a diversified Hong Kong financial market and its asset- and wealth-management functions.

German federal cabinet approved the 2027 federal budget draft, which includes increased defense spending; by 2030 defense will account for one-third of the federal budget.