National Hurricane Center: Tropical Depression Two is about 285 miles (460 kilometers) west of Fort Myers, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 km/h). Tropical Depression II continued to move slowly southward with little change in intensity.

The Riksbank: Will investigate the impact of the exchange rate fluctuations of the Swedish krona at the end of the year.

According to the local governor: Ukraine shelled the Belgorod region of Russia, and two people were killed in the shelling.

Emerging market investment firm GQG is betting $13 billion on Indian stocks and says it will continue to buy.

Deputy Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan: The government raised the GDP forecast for the end of 2023 from 2.7% to 2.8%.

Dow futures rose 0.4%, S&P 500 futures, Nasdaq futures rose 0.3%.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): It is estimated that global cereal production will reach 2.813 billion tons in 2023, an increase of 1% over 2022.

London Metal Exchange (LME): Aluminum inventories increased by 200 tons, copper inventories decreased by 850 tons, nickel inventories decreased by 84 tons, lead inventories were flat, tin inventories were flat, and zinc inventories were flat.

ECB Governing Council Vasle: Monetary policy alone is not enough to solve economic problems and needs the assistance of other policies.

ECB Governing Council Vasle: Core inflation remains high and persistent.

Lee Sue Ann, economist at United Overseas Bank of Singapore: The latest wages and employment data reinforce our view that the RBA will keep interest rates unchanged at 3.85% in June. But this view faces some risks. Given that recent inflation is still far above the target, the RBA may raise interest rates again this year; it believes that the Australian economy is still moderately resilient.

Ministry of International Trade and Industry Malaysia: Malaysia has successfully secured potential export orders from Japan worth MYR 2.1 billion and potential investments worth MYR 23.1 billion from Japan.

Norwegian government: Parliament agrees to increase subsidies for building offshore wind farms to NOK 23 billion, up from NOK 15 billion previously.

Market news: The Norwegian government and political parties have reached an agreement on offshore wind power projects.

The monthly rate of unemployment in Spain in May was -1.77%, the previous value was -2.58%.

Gazprom: will continue to deliver gas to Europe via Ukraine, with 40.6 million cubic meters delivered on Friday.

The Philippine stock index rose 1.3 percent to 6,512.01.

France’s April manufacturing output annual rate was 2.1%, the previous value was 0.70%.

Bank of America: The weekly inflows of equity funds are the largest since February.