Spot palladium extended gains, up 5% at $1,075.60 an ounce.

Canadian Prime Minister Carney said trade talks with the United States still face some difficult areas.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission said it will continue to expand trade and investment cooperation with Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partners and actively promote "small-and-beautiful" project construction during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period. The NDRC said it will broaden cooperation in emerging sectors, deepen multi-sector people-to-people exchanges and livelihood projects, strengthen and diversify BRI investment and financing risk-control frameworks to boost risk-prevention capacity, and advance anti-corruption work under a "clean Silk Road" initiative.