Traders have raised expectations for the European Central Bank to cut interest rates, and now expect three more cuts in 2025.

An Israeli military spokesperson issued an evacuation warning to designated areas in the Iranian capital Tehran.

The US Federal Reserve is to meet to discuss plans to ease leverage requirements for big banks, in what is expected to be the start of a broad programme to rethink bank rules. The Fed announced that it would hold a board meeting on June 25 to discuss changes to the so-called "supplemental leverage ratio", which requires banks to hold assets regardless of risk.

According to the New York Times, Iran has prepared missiles and other military equipment to hit U.S. bases in the event of a U.S. war.

According to the CME "Fed Watch", the probability that the Fed will maintain interest rates unchanged in June is 97.3%, and the probability of reducing interest rates by 25 basis points is 2.7%; the probability of maintaining interest rates unchanged in July is 85.3%, the probability of reducing interest rates by 25 basis points is 14.4%, and the probability of reducing interest rates by 50 basis points is 0.3%.

StarkWare announced the launch of the Delegation Program, designed to support the decentralization of Starknet by empowering validators, especially smaller validators, to help protect cyber security and earn rewards in the process.

Enterprise bitcoin finance firm Strategy (ticker MSTR) recently bought about 10,000 bitcoins for $1 billion, bringing its total holdings close to the 600,000 BTC mark. The company's recent purchases were largely funded by the initial public offering (IPO) of its $1 billion Stride perpetual preference share (STRD). According to TD Cowen analysts, this process "establishes a channel for future high-yield inflows into bitcoin". In addition, STRK and STRF...

GameStop (GME) completes issuance of 2.25 billion USD convertible premium notes.

According to CCTV news, on the 17th local time, Canadian officials said that due to the opposition of the United States, Canada has abandoned its plan to issue a G7 joint statement on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Tuesday (June 17) New York late trading, offshore RMB (CNH) against the US dollar at 7.1917 yuan, down 97 points from Monday New York late trading, the day's overall trading at 7.1787-7.1945 yuan range.

According to sources, Musk's xAI company is expected to complete a $5 billion debt financing, which has received limited investor demand and covers a ratio of 1.5 times. The allocation of funds will be made on Wednesday.

The dollar index rose 0.84% on the 17th to close at 98.821 in late foreign exchange trading.

According to Politico, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday opposed the violent overthrow of the Iranian regime, warning that it could have destabilizing effects across the Middle East. "The biggest mistake today was to try to change the regime in Iran by military means, because that would lead to chaos," Macron told reporters on the final day of the G7 summit in Canada. "No one can say what will happen next," he warned. "We never support actions that destabilize the region." Mark...