💱🇷🇺 The optimal exchange rate for economic development is 80 rubles per dollar — Aksakov in an interview with RIA Novosti

🚫🛢️ Threat of mines in the Strait of Hormuz remains a shipping concern

The US-Iran peace agreement remains unclear

— BIMCO (German Maritime Shipping Association)

⚠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump currently has no separate meeting scheduled with Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 summit — AP

Earlier, Trump suggested Russia and Ukraine sort it out themselves...

🚫🇬🇧 Starmer announces intention to ban social media for children under 16

⚠️🇪🇺 NATO would strike Kaliningrad, the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg, and the Black Sea in the event of a conflict with Russia.

— German Air Force Commander Holger Neumann, in an interview with The Telegraph

📈🌎 Stock markets around the world are rising today

🌕🇬🇧 The London Bullion Market Association is considering moving its morning gold auction to an earlier time to better accommodate Asian traders.

🛢️🇷🇺🇪🇺 The operator of Nord Stream 2 — Nord Stream 2 AG — has filed a lawsuit in an EU court to challenge the European Union's decision to abandon Russian gas. — ТАСС

🇦🇺 Australia's central bank will keep its key interest rate unchanged for the first time this year — analysts, BBG survey

Previously had been raising it every time

✴️🇨🇳 China is preparing the digital payment system mBridge to compete with the dollar. The platform is backed by the central banks of Hong Kong, Thailand, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. The project aims to reduce dollar dependence and strengthen Beijing's ties with Belt and Road trading partners. — FT

*mBridge is positioned as an international platform for cross-border transactions in sovereign digital currencies (CBDCs). China leads the platform following the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) exit from the project in October 2024.*

📊🇪🇺 Eurozone — Industrial Production (Apr)

M/M = +0.1% (exp. +0.2% / prev. +0.2%)
Y/Y = +0.3% (exp. +0.4% / prev. -2.1%)

🇷🇺 More than half of major video game studios in Russia have faced difficulties securing financing. The main challenges for market participants include cross-border payments, entry into international markets, and qualified expertise for potential investors. Companies add that the scale of government support for the industry clearly does not match the pace of market development. — Ъ

🚫✴️🇵🇭 Philippines bans crypto exchanges from listing "privacy" coins

❗️🇯🇵 Hedge funds and speculators increased short positions in the yen to a 9-year high — CFTC

⚠️🇪🇺 Deutsche expects at least one more ECB rate hike this year

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia is awaiting a visit from Witkoff and Kushner in the near future and expects them to explain how Washington plans to implement the Anchorage agreements, — Lavrov

🇰🇿🇺🇸 Kazakhstan has signed $10B agreements with Firebird and NVIDIA as part of the "Data Center Valleys" project.

Discussions covered the development of national AI infrastructure, including the creation of high-performance computing capacity, deployment of modern data processing centers, and attracting international technology partners.

✴️ Cryptorank: top 7 token unlocks this week

❗️🇷🇺 INCAB: IPO PRICE RANGE

100–110 RUB/share

Planned placement volume: 2–2.4 bln RUB; free-float after IPO expected at ~20.0–23.0%

Offer price to be determined upon completion of the book-building process, which opens June 16 and closes June 23

INCB shares expected to begin trading on Moscow Exchange on June 24, 2026

🚫🛢️🇷🇺🇪🇺 Russia has fallen to fourth place among gas suppliers to the EU — PRIME

⚠️🇪🇺🇷🇺 EU IMPOSES ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA, ADDING OVER 80 INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES TO BLACKLIST, INCLUDING FROM COUNTRIES FRIENDLY TO RUSSIA — EU COUNCIL — TASS