Nissan now assumes an average USD/JPY rate of 157 for the current fiscal year, up from its prior forecast of 150.

Apple's iCloud services suffered a global outage beginning around 06:49 BJT and has been ongoing for nearly two hours. Core account login and registration services are down, preventing users — including buyers of new iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone Duo devices — from restoring data via iCloud backups. iCloud calendar, contacts, mail, photos and Game Center are interrupted; Find My iPhone and iWork for iCloud are reporting issues.

Fed official Schmid said he did not view last year’s rates as restrictive, but now regards current policy rates as quite accommodative.