Brazil is affected by a nationwide blackout, with all of the
states connected to the national energy system impacted. The state of
Roraima is unaffected as it has its own energy system. The cause of the outage is still unknown.
(The Brazilian Report)
The Chinese
central bank lowers the medium-term lending facility rate, which is the interest rate on one-year loans to financial institutions, to 2.5%.
(Reuters)