U.S. Vice President Vance said there are real divisions within Iran over how to proceed.

Shanghai Gold Exchange Gold T+D closed at 935.78 yuan/gram on Thursday, June 18, down 0.53%; Silver T+D closed at 16,425.0 yuan/kg, down 2.12%.

The Yunxiao DC channel transmission-rights trade was executed, marking China’s first market-based transmission-rights transaction. Jointly organized by the Guangzhou and Beijing power trading centers, 113 power-market entities from Anhui and Guangdong transacted 21.16 mln kWh to be delivered from Anhui to Guangdong between June 21 and June 30 to meet demand from advanced manufacturing parks and high‑tech firms in the Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area.