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Japan's 30-year government bond yield rose 2.0 basis points to 3.860%.

Hong Kong stock Huahong Grace (01347.HK) continues to rise, now up more than 10%.

Hong Kong stock JD.com (09618.HK) fell more than 3%, with transaction volume exceeding HK$180 million.

Hong Kong stock Tuya Smart (02391.HK) fell more than 14%, with a turnover of over HK$80,000.

Sevastopol in Crimea suffered a power outage after a drone attack, Russian news agencies reported, citing authorities in Moscow.

Hong Kong stocks expanded their gains, with the Hang Seng Technology Index rising 1% and the Hang Seng Index rising 0.5%.

Australia's seasonally adjusted monthly CPI rate in May was -0.1%, compared with -0.1% in the previous month.

Australia's seasonally adjusted CPI annual rate in May was 4%, compared with the previous value of 4.2%.

Australia’s unseasonally adjusted CPI monthly rate in May was -0.7%, expected -0.4%, and the previous value was 0.4%.

Australia’s unseasonally adjusted CPI annual rate in May was 4%, expected to be 4.3%, and the previous value was 4.20%.

HSI opened on June 24 (Wednesday), up 84.42 points, or 0.36%, to 23420.7 points;Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Technology Index opened on June 24 (Wednesday), up 21.19 points, or 0.48%, to 4420.41 points; br/>The state-owned enterprise index opened on June 24 (Wednesday), up 32.77 points, or 0.42%, to 7792.13 points;The red chip index opened on June 24 (Wednesday), up 13.58 points, or 0.35%, to 3902.26 points.

Hong Kong stocks opened, with the Hang Seng Index opening up 0.36% and the Stock Exchange Index opening up 0.48%. Most technology stocks strengthened, with Weilai-SW (09866.HK) up about 5% and Baidu (09888.HK) up about 3%.

Australia's unadjusted CPI annual rate for May will be released in ten minutes.

NI225 gave up its earlier gains and is currently down 0.4% at 69499.12.

SpaceX on Tuesday sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds to replace high-cost debt tied to Musk's 2022 acquisition of X (then Twitter) and to loans and bonds issued last year for AI lab XAI. The affected entities held roughly $17.5 billion of debt that would have generated about $1.8 billion of interest this year; the consolidated $25 billion issuance reduces SpaceX's annual interest burden to about $1.5 billion.

According to the Associated Press: Anthropic’s Mythos model discovered a vulnerability in a classified U.S. government system.

Summary of the Bank of Japan's June policy meeting: A representative from the Cabinet Office said the central bank must assess the impact of reducing the size of its balance sheet on the macro economy and take appropriate measures to maintain market stability.

Australia's S&P/ASX200 index opened up 13.40 points, or 0.15%, on Wednesday, June 24, to 8800.40 points.

South Korea's KOSPI index opened up 1.9%. NI225 opened down 0.25%.

Summary of the Bank of Japan's June policy meeting: One member said there is absolutely no reason for the Bank of Japan to stop reducing its bond purchases.