ECB executive board member Sleijpen said the ECB must look beyond the short-term impact of shocks.

Nearly half of Federal Reserve policymakers no longer believe that holding borrowing costs steady would be sufficient to bring inflation back to 2% if oil prices spike after a war involving Iran. The Fed's latest dot plot shows views on the rate path shifting from how long to hold rates before cuts to growing concern about the need for additional hikes; some officials now expect rate increases. Wednesday's projections revised inflation sharply higher since March: median PCE YoY is now seen at 3.6% by year-end (March: 2.7%), median core PCE YoY at 3.3% (March: 2.7%). Median year-end unemployment is 4.3% — matching May's reading and below March's 4.4% — indicating policymakers increasingly see the labor market as not weakening and reducing the case for rate cuts.

CSRC chairman Wu Qing said at the Lujiazui Forum on June 17, 2026 that reforms of the Sci‑Tech Innovation Board (STAR Market) and ChiNext will be further deepened. The two boards now list over 2,000 companies with combined market capitalization above 35 trillion yuan.