China's Shanghai Composite opened July 10 (Fri) down 5.05 points (-0.13%) at 4,031.54; Shenzhen Composite opened up 81.68 points (+0.53%) at 15,480.41; CSI 300 opened up 11.22 points (+0.23%) at 4,887.54; ChiNext opened up 23.68 points (+0.59%) at 4,041.86; STAR 50 opened up 4.35 points (+0.20%) at 2,190.18.

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.

Israeli startup Bright Data, one of the world’s largest web-data collection providers, is launching a $1 mln bug bounty to incentivize white-hat hackers to identify vulnerabilities, including in its own systems, the company said. The move follows heightened law-enforcement scrutiny of how firms harvest internet data and whether those methods pose legal or compliance risks for customers. Bright Data said demand for its services has surged as internet data becomes critical for AI model training; its CEO warned broader enforcement actions against data-collection services could hamper AI development.