The Reserve Bank of Australia kept interest rates unchanged at 4.35% for the eighth consecutive meeting, in line with market expectations

David Bailey, executive director of prudential policy at the Bank of England, said that the UK plans to introduce new restrictions on banks' holdings of crypto assets by 2026 to guard against financial stability risks. The plan will be based on the disclosure framework developed by the Basel Committee, which recommended that banks' exposure to cryptoassets such as bitcoin should be limited to 1%.

TAC, a blockchain project built for Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) decentralized applications to access the TON and Telegram ecosystems, announced that it has raised a total of $11.50 million in seed and strategy rounds, with the latest $5 million strategic round led by Hack VC. The project aims to provide an EVM-compatible DeFi infrastructure for the TON and Telegram ecosystems, with plans to gradually open up functionality through a phased mainnet rollout. TAC has specifically developed the Te...

On the evening of June 18 local time, the Israeli Defense Forces Arabic spokesperson released news on its social media that Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked an anti-tank missile production base in Iran on the evening of the 17th. According to the Israeli Defense Forces statement on the evening of the 18th, the Israeli army launched an attack on weapons production bases, centrifuge bases and research and development bases related to Iran's western nuclear program.

According to CME "Fed Watch", the probability that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged in July is 89.7%, the probability of a cumulative 25 basis point cut is 10.3%, and the probability of a cumulative 50 basis point cut is 0%. The probability that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged in September is 31.7%, the probability of a cumulative 25 basis point cut is 61.7%, and the probability of a cumulative 50 basis point cut is 6.7%.

The Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations said on social media on June 18 local time that Iran had never asked the United States for negotiations, and that the relevant remarks of US President Trump were "lies". Trump told the media at the White House on the military conflict between Israel and Iran that Iran wants to negotiate and has expressed its willingness to come to the White House. In response, the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations posted on social media that "no I...

According to the Financial Times, Microsoft (MSFT. O) is ready to withdraw from high-stakes talks with OpenAI. Microsoft (MSFT. O) is considering suspending talks with OpenAI if it cannot agree on key issues. Key issues in Microsoft's talks with OpenAI include the size of Microsoft's future shareholding.

According to analyst R. Burns Mckinney, investors know that interest rates will not change, but they are focusing on the Fed's forecast of a rate cut between now and the end of the year. The previous dot plot predicted 2 rate cuts, and investors were concerned that this forecast would be downgraded to 1. However, the Federal Reserve maintained its forecast of 2 rate cuts, and overall, investors like to see that. However, Powell's comments also suggest that the FOMC raised its estimate of year-en...

U.S. stocks closed Wednesday with the Dow initially down 0.1 percent, the S & P 500 index down 0.03 percent and the Nasdaq up 0.13 percent. Circle (CRCL. N) closed up 34.2 percent and Coinbase (COIN. O) rose 16 percent.

On June 18 local time, US President Donald Trump said on the current Iran-Israel conflict that the United States is not seeking a ceasefire, but a "complete victory", that is, "Iran does not have nuclear weapons". In addition, Trump also said that "a deal is still possible". Earlier in the day, Trump had made a series of remarks on Iran. Trump said he had not yet decided whether to take military action against Iran. He also said that Iran wants to negotiate and has expressed its willingness to c...

According to the Financial Times, British Prime Minister Starmer alerted the cabinet to a possible US attack on Iran, just 24 hours after insisting that Trump had not said he would "get involved in this conflict". British officials said the situation was "serious and volatile", while the prime minister's team discussed whether Trump might seek to secure access from Diego Garcia's joint US-UK air force base.

The German, French, British and top European Union diplomats will hold nuclear talks with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva on Friday, a German diplomatic source said. The ministers will first meet European Union top diplomat Karas at the German consulate in Geneva before holding a joint meeting with their Iranian counterpart, the source said. The plan has been agreed with the US, the source added.

Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell will testify before a U.S. Senate committee on the monetary policy report on June 25.