Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas: The balance of risks to the inflation outlook for 2024 and 2025 continues to tilt to the downside.

Bank of Japan board member Sou Takada: The impact of the market turmoil in August is still ongoing.

Bank of Japan board member Sou Takada: It will take enough time to test the impact of the interest rate hike.

Bank of Japan board member Sou Takada: It is difficult to determine the natural interest rate.

Bank of Japan board member Sou Takada: We are seeing import prices rising again.

Bank of Japan board member Sou Takada: We need to pay close attention to market trends.

Bank of Japan board member Sou Takada: The stock and foreign exchange markets have experienced significant fluctuations, but we still see hope of achieving our inflation target.

Philippine Economic Planning Minister: The government will continue to implement measures to further ease inflationary pressures.

Philippine Economic Planning Secretary: The government is ready to respond to potential price pressures to ensure inflation stability.

Haiti will extend its nationwide state of emergency for one month, a spokesman for the prime minister said.

Palestinian Wafa News Agency: At least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a vehicle in the Tubas area of the West Bank.

The weighted average price of one-day pledged repurchase (DR001) between banks and depositors increased by 1.91bp to 1.5628%; the weighted average price of seven-day pledged repurchase (DR007) between banks and depositors decreased by 5.63bp to 1.6532%.

Market news: US Secretary of State Blinken will hold a press conference at 5:40 pm local time in Haiti.

Most emerging market currencies are not expected to rise further in the next three months, despite widespread market expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, a Reuters poll found.

The yields of major interest-rate bonds in the interbank market generally rose slightly at the beginning of the session. The yield of the active 10-year treasury bond "24 Guokai 10" rose by 0.75bp, the yield of the active 10-year treasury bond "24 Interest-bearing Treasury Bond 11" rose by 0.5bp, and the yield of the active 30-year treasury bond "23 Interest-bearing Treasury Bond 23" rose by 0.5bp.

Japanese chip stocks continued their decline yesterday, with Renesas Electronics falling more than 3% and Sony falling 6%.

According to the Wall Street Journal: Stellantis (STLA.N) recently suspended production at three factories, and the company confirmed that it would adjust production to improve operations at its US factories.

Foreign investors bought 139.85 billion yen of Japanese bonds in the week ending August 30, compared with 85.94 billion yen in the previous week.

Japan bought 164.05 billion yen of foreign bonds in the week ending August 30, with the previous value revised from 154.29 billion yen to 155.55 billion yen.