On December 22, the People's Bank of China kept the one-year and five-year LPR at 3% and 3.5% respectively, unchanged for seven consecutive months. The FTSE China A50 index futures opened with a rise of 0.15%.

Domestic futures main contracts showed a mixed performance in the morning: platinum and palladium rose nearly or exceeded 5%, PX, PTA, and Shanghai silver rose over 3%, short fiber, pulp, and bottle flakes rose over 2%; PVC, plastics, and canola oil fell over 1%.

Japanese government bond yields rose in early Tokyo trading, influenced by fiscal policy risks and expectations for government bond issuance plans. The yield on the 10-year JGB briefly rose to 2.068%, hitting an intraday high not seen since February 1999; the 20-year yield increased by 3 basis points to 3%, and the 5-year yield rose by 3.5 basis points to 1.520%.