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NI225 gave up earlier gains and was last down 0.1%.

Japan's 30-year government bond yield rose 2.5 basis points to 3.580%.

UK Maritime Trade Operations Office: Received a report of an incident 15 nautical miles northeast of Oman. The captain of a container ship reported that the ship was approached by an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboat.

Japan's 20-year government bond yield rose 2.5 basis points to 3.240%.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister: Russian drones attacked Ukraine’s Odessa port infrastructure last night.

Kazakh Energy Minister: Kazakhstan’s oil exports to Germany will resume when technical conditions are met.

Kazakh Energy Minister: There are no plans to transport oil to Germany through the Druzhba pipeline in May.

Chairman of the Securities Commission of Malaysia: Non-traditional investors include pension funds from Japan, South Korea and Australia.

European Central Bank Governing Council member Cazacs: There is no need to rush to deal with the energy prices pushed up by the Iran war.

According to the Financial Times: Senior European Central Bank policymakers said the European Central Bank has "ample" capital to wait on raising interest rates.

According to the Financial Times: US President Donald Trump’s trade chief has called on US allies to pay more for critical minerals.

New Zealand Prime Minister Luxon: Japan is an important fuel supplier to New Zealand and will continue to be so.

New Zealand Prime Minister Luxon: It was a great pleasure to have a conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi today. The conflict in the Middle East has a real humanitarian cost and is causing economic pain in the Indo-Pacific, and we all hope that diplomacy can succeed and restore stability. The Prime Minister and I agree that maintaining open supply chains is an important response to the impact of the crisis in the Indo-Pacific.

Four people were rescued after a Ukrainian drone strike caused a partial collapse of a residential building in Sizran, Russia, the local governor said.

At the close of early trading, most of the main domestic futures contracts rose. Polysilicon rose by more than 5%, container shipping lines and ethylene glycol rose by more than 3%, rapeseed meal, plastics, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), soybeans, PTA, cotton, fuel oil, urea, palm oil, and caustic soda rose by more than 2%. In terms of decline, Shanghai Banking fell by more than 1%, and Apple fell by nearly 1%.

Australian Treasurer: We just got another 200 million liters of diesel. This brings the total additional diesel obtained in the past seven days to approximately 300 million liters. We are doing everything we can to secure more fuel for Australians.

[Mitsubishi UFJ: The U.S.-Iran conflict seems to have turned into a long-term stalemate] Mitsubishi UFJ analyst Lloyd Chan said in a research report that the U.S.-Iran conflict seems to have turned into a long-term stalemate rather than a quick resolution. The senior currency analyst said the United States appears to be using the blockade of Iranian ports to force Tehran to reach a peace agreement or risk further military escalation. "For the market, this environment means continued disruption to energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz," Chan said. The analyst added that pressure points were more pronounced in oil-sensitive currencies, including the Philippine peso and the Thai baht.

NI225 hit another record high during the session.

Market news: Japan’s Finance Minister will meet with the banking community to discuss the threat to Anthropic’s Mythos model.

Boeing has begun formal certification testing of engine anti-ice design repairs for its 737 MAX aircraft.