France June INSEE business confidence index 94, below consensus 95; May reading revised down to 93 from 94.

The U.S. Embassy in the Philippines said the U.S. government has transferred four Ocean Aero "Haishen" autonomous surface vessels to the Philippine military in a transaction valued at $13m.

Today (23rd) the general offices of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Public Security issued a joint notice. Going forward, motor vehicle certificate-of-conformity data will be shared in real time between the two agencies with second-level transmission, allowing domestically produced small passenger cars to be bought, taxed and registered on the same day and speeding up purchase-to-registration processing.