Sources: Chevron plans to increase production in Venezuela and optimize exports to speed up debt recovery.

Chief Economist of the Bank of Spain: The economy is expected to grow by about 2% in 2023, compared with the previous forecast of 1.6%.

Governor of the Bank of Spain: GDP growth expected to exceed 2% in 2024 and 2025.

Bank of Spain Governor: Rent controls could have adverse effects and drive up prices.

European Commission Vice President Shefcovic: The EU sees a "solid" interest in the joint purchase of natural gas from the market.

According to Polish media, citing anonymous sources, the military objects found in the Polish forest in April were Russian CH-55 missiles.

According to Sankei Shimbun: Japan plans to arrange Japan-Korea and Japan-US summit negotiations in Hiroshima on May 21.

Market news: The European Union will now look for sellers in the international gas market.

According to Interfax: Russia lifts ban on flights from Russia to Georgia.

European Commission Vice-President Sevcovic: The total volume requested in the tender is 11.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

European Commission Vice-President Shefcovic: 77 companies have subscribed to the first joint EU gas procurement tender.

Deutsche Bank: sees potential "dovish risk" at upcoming Bank of England meeting on Thursday.

Rosneft: Friendship pipeline (Druzhba) attacked, no casualties.

ECB President Lagarde: Asset purchases and sales have not been discussed yet.

Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank: We still face many uncertainties, including the subsequent development of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and some new signs of weakness in demand for manufacturing products.

ECB President Christine Lagarde: We do not expect a recession in our base case for 2023, and we are better off than we assessed six months ago.

ECB President Christine Lagarde: We have taken very cautious and decisive steps to fight inflation.

ECB President Lagarde: We still need to do more.

ECB President Lagarde: The ECB has to be very mindful of potential risks, especially those related to wage growth in individual European countries.

ECB President Lagarde: There are a number of factors that could pose significant upside risks to the inflation outlook.