CFTC: Mizuho fined more than $6.8 million for swap trading violations.

NYSE: Net short positions fell 0.8% to 16.02 billion shares in mid-April.

ChatGPT has added a privacy option: it allows users to choose whether the conversation record is used for ChatGPT training.

US Senate Majority Leader Schumer: McCarthy must stop wasting time on failed debt ceiling plan.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Schumer: The debt ceiling plan proposed by U.S. House Speaker McCarthy contains "extreme (spending) cuts" programs.

According to TASS: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree outlining how Russia will respond if its overseas assets are seized.

Fitch: The solution to the U.S. debt ceiling impasse remains unclear after Republican and Democratic leaders put forward their latest fiscal proposals.

Fitch: Improving the US debt ceiling in the short term will not help future impasse.

U.S. 2-year and 3-year Treasury yields both fell 16 basis points.

Cryptocurrency exchange Voyager: Received a letter from Binance terminating the asset purchase agreement.

USD/JPY fell 0.50% on the day against the yen and is now at 133.56.

Market news: A committee of the Chilean Senate approved the mining license policy.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: The Secretary-General of the United Nations and others are trying to reach an agreement with Western countries, but there is no result yet.

The yield on the U.S. two-year Treasury note fell 11 basis points to a refresh-day low of 3.98%.

In total, the Fed accepted $2.275 trillion from 100 counterparties in fixed-rate reverse repurchase operations.

When talking about Sudan and the Wagner Group, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that the Wagner Group is a private group, and they have the right to use the services of the group if Sudan wishes.

Japanese space startup iSpace: Still investigating status of lander.