Bloomberg Economics, based on public data, estimates the Reserve Bank of India may have sold about $12 billion of gold reserves in the two weeks to May 22 while buying roughly $7.5 billion of foreign-exchange assets to shield its FX holdings from spillovers of the Middle East war. Senior India economist Abhishek Gupta says the reported value of RBI gold reserves fell despite higher gold import tariffs, which he interprets as evidence of sales. As of end-March the RBI held 880.52 tonnes of gold,

Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan said in a social media video on June 1 that Armenia will remain in the Eurasian Economic Union and will continue to operate within it "peacefully and calmly." He was responding to a May 29 joint statement from the presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan urging Armenia to hold a referendum on whether to join the EU or stay in the EAEU, saying a nationwide vote before Armenia formally applies to join the EU or is close to obtaining EU candidate status would be illogical and unjustified.

創業板指日內大漲3%，上證綜指現漲0.56%，深證成指現漲1.75%；CPO、光纖概念股漲幅居前。