Google (GOOG.O, GOOGL.O): Disagrees with EU antitrust charges against ad tech business and will respond accordingly.

Vodafone (VOD.O) CEO: We will lodge a complaint with the competition watchdog UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the Hutchison deal in the next few weeks and we are confident we will succeed.

India is considering setting royalties for lithium mining at 3% of the LME price.

Chairman of Visa (VN): The Federal Reserve may raise interest rates by 25 basis points.

Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission: The EU has "limited the scope" of the Google case to speed up progress.

HSBC is set to raise UK mortgage rates for the second time in less than a week.

The 3-month USD LIBOR fell 4.4 basis points to 5.50843%.

Nigeria is said to be close to a decision to allow the naira to trade more freely.

Google ( GOOG.O , GOOGL.O ) US stocks fell 0.5% before the market.

OPENAI, Google need to evaluate tools such as GPT-4.

Final negotiations on an EU AI bill are due to start later today.

European Parliament votes to ban real-time remote biometrics. The EU ban means real-time face scanning is not possible in public places.

Statoil: Hammerfest LNG project restarts today as scheduled.

UK ASLEF union: UK train drivers vote to extend strike

The New Zealand dollar NZD/USD rose more than 0.50% on the day and is now at 0.6180.

Czech Bank Deputy Governor FRAIT: "I can still see some cases for a rate hike, but I believe they are weaker than at the last meeting."

The Israeli shekel lost 2.2 percent, heading for its biggest drop in a year.

An index of Turkish banks rose 3.3 percent.

The South African rand strengthened 1.05% against the dollar to hit 18.4425.