China's bulk commodity price index up in October

The index tracking the development of China's bulk commodity market significantly increased in October, the latest industry data show on Thursday.

The bulk commodity price index stood at 137.0 last month, up 21 percent year on year, according to the data released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. The year-on-year increase in China's commodity price index remained substantial, indicating that the commodity market was generally stable and performed better overall than in the same period last year.

A telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump is not currently planned, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

Peskov also said that the Kremlin will publish in due course the full list of the Russian delegation to the trilateral talks on the Ukraine issue. The talks will focus on security and security guarantee-related issues, and the specific details will be discussed in the closed-door session.

Russia, the United States and Ukraine are to hold trilateral talks on the Ukraine issue in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Nov. 10-11, Peskov said at a briefing on Tuesday, adding that the Russian delegation will be led by Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that he had a phone call of about one and a half hours with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, regarding the trilateral talks scheduled for next week.

Zelensky said Ukraine has submitted relevant proposals to the U.S. side and hopes to accelerate the negotiation process and end the conflict as soon as possible. Ukraine also called on the United States to provide more air-defense interceptor missiles.