The Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) quota of 10 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) for intra-day yuan funding has been nearly used up by Friday afternoon, suggesting tightening yuan liquidity conditions in the Asian financial hub.
Japanese government bond yields were little changed on Thursday, as investors refrained from making bets ahead of the Bank of Japan's bond-buying program schedule announcement a day later.
Angola has secured three years of payment relief from Chinese creditors and expects to get more than $700 million in its next tranche of International Monetary Fund financing in the coming days, its finance minister said on Monday.