Spot gold fell below $4,100/oz to a near-two-week low, down 2.21% intraday.

Oman's foreign ministry said the Sultan met today with Iran's parliament speaker Ghalibaf and Iranian foreign minister Araghchi; they discussed progress in Iran–U.S. negotiations.

June 23 — Shenzhen municipal party committee held a special meeting to fast-track high-quality, efficient advancement of the city's "six networks" planning and construction consistent with central and provincial directives. The meeting called for targeted measures to raise the capability and standards of the six-net plan. For the computing-power network, it requires systematic planning and flexible supply: increase compute capacity, deepen compute interconnection, and strengthen coordination between power and compute. For the next-generation communications network, it emphasizes ubiquitous high-speed coverage and integrated enabling: accelerate construction of national internet backbone direct-connect nodes, push 6G R&D and commercial deployment, expand dual 10G network rollout, and advance satellite network applications.