It was not immediately clear if the two countries had settled on the contentious issue of pricing the gas to come from Russia.

The governor of the Bank of Japan reiterated his optimism that the country is on course to meet the bank’s 2 percent inflation target.

Fang Fang, once one of JPMorgan Chase’s top deal makers in China, who resigned amid an investigation by the United States into the bank’s hiring practices in China, was recently arrested by anti-graft investigators and released.

The request by the Obama administration for revisions to the U.S.A. Freedom Act bill set off closed-door negotiations between lawmakers and executive branch officials that stretched to midnight on Monday and resumed Tuesday morning.