U.S. President Trump said he discussed with Syria's leader ways to target HEZBOLLAH.

Wind data show that as of June 16 Guotai Fund's ETF assets under management totaled 342.27 bln yuan, ranking third in the industry behind E Fund and Huaxia Fund. Year-to-date ETF AUM rose by 55.83 bln yuan, the largest increase across the market. Guotai's telecom ETF and semiconductor equipment ETF contributed 33.07 bln yuan and 15.27 bln yuan of the inflows, respectively; its power-grid equipment and gold ETFs each added more than 6 bln yuan.

UK May Retail Price Index (RPI) YoY 3.1% vs. consensus 3.3%; prior 3.0%.