Ryutaro Kimura, senior fixed-income strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management in Tokyo, said Japan's finance minister Katayama's urging that pension funds increase allocations to domestic financial assets is partly intended to tamp down upward pressure on yields rather than to have immediate practical effect. Today's decline in JGB yields reflects that the prior rise in rates was too rapid.

NHTSA chief Jonathan Morrison told CNBC the agency 'absolutely' will consider removing the federal requirement that autonomous vehicles be equipped with a steering wheel, saying manual controls are pointless for vehicles designed not to be human-driven. The agency last month updated federal safety standards to drop the mandatory manual brake pedal. The changes are part of the Trump administration's push to modernize AV rules and could ease the path for Tesla and other companies building wheel- and pedal-free robotaxis, including Tesla's planned Cybercab.

阿布扎比国家石油公司航运、物流和海事服务部门（ADNOC L&S）订购了四艘新液化天然气运输船，扩大其液化天然气船队规模。总价值约为9亿美元，订购的四艘新建17.5万立方米液化天然气运输船定于2029年交付。最新订单使ADNOC L&S的液化天然气运输船计划总数达到18艘。