Nine Japnese power companies have raised their rates from the previous month, Jiji reports; the increase for a standard household expected to be as high as JPY 91, four major city gas companies are also raising their rates by JPY 20 to JPY 24

EU antitrust regulators have opened a full-scale investigation into JD.com’s (9618 HK) acquisition of Ceconomy (CEC GY); regulators are to decide on the deal by October 2nd

NVIDIA (NVDA) CEO Huang is set to visit South Korea next week, Yonhap reports

Nine Japnese power companies have raised their rates from the previous month, Jiji reports; the increase for a standard household expected to be as high as JPY 91, four major city gas companies are also raising their rates by JPY 20 to JPY 24

EU meeting confirmed that there is currently no immediate concern for the security of gas supply in the EU for the next winter season; EU says still possible to refill gas storage to 80% capacity by end-summer

Telefonica (TEF SM) is working with Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google Cloud to offer a soverign cloud solution in Spain