Luno CEO James Lanigan said South Africa's proposed Capital Flow Management Regulations could weaken the country's competitiveness by constraining stablecoin use and cross-border payments. He pointed to Bloomberg figures showing stablecoins handled $33 trillion in 2025 payments and blockchain transfers, warning restrictive wording could keep local businesses from accessing that market. The National Treasury and SARB extended the public comment deadline from May 18 to June 30, 2026, and plan to publish a draft manual defining what counts as a cross-border crypto transaction.

U.S. Treasury yields were little changed in early Thursday trading as markets weighed the latest inflation figures and escalating Middle East tensions. The 10-year yield stood at 4.5384% and the 2-year was flat at 4.1288%, while traders looked ahead to U.S. producer price data expected to rise 0.7% month on month in May. Oil prices turned lower, with WTI down 0.9% to $89.24 and Brent slipping more than 1% to $92.14.

Japan's lower house has passed a bill that would place cryptocurrencies under a stock-style regulatory framework, with the measure expected to be implemented next year if approved by the upper house. The proposal could treat assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum as financial instruments, tighten trading rules, and potentially reduce the maximum tax rate on crypto gains from 55% toward about 20%. It may also support the launch of regulated products such as spot crypto ETFs.

Shanghai Futures Exchange gold contracts fell more than 4% at the open on June 11, pulling silver lower even as many of China's energy and industrial futures moved higher. Spot gold slid to $4,022.09 per ounce before settling at $4,089.12 after short covering. Traders also priced in a greater than 70% chance of U.S. rate hikes in coming months, while Middle East supply risks helped lift oil-linked contracts.

On June 9, 2026, Italy's FTSE Mib closed at a new record of 50,263 points, after an intraday high of 51,240 and futures reaching 51,275. Later that day at 5:25 p.m., Bitcoin fell below $61,500, near its lowest level in four months. The move highlighted a rotation toward Italian bank-led equities even as crypto faced pressure from ETF outflows and other macro headwinds.

Binance says tokenized stocks and ETFs are increasingly being traded via crypto platforms, with emerging markets accounting for 93% of current volumes. The exchange's research projects that by 2031, crypto exchanges could add US$2T in incremental capital and nearly 300M new users to global equity markets, with a bullish scenario of up to $5 trillion. The report also flags risks, including higher volatility in RWA perpetuals, unequal tokenized stock terms, and government crackdowns that could restrict capital flows.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) delivered a dual-edged sword for its fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2026 earnings report, highlighting the sheer financial friction required to achieve top-tier dominance in the cloud era. While the database and cloud pioneer blew past fourth-quarter revenue and earnings estimates, catapulting its multi-cloud AI database business to the fastest-growing segment in company history, the market reacted with swift anxiety over the staggering capital cost of this expansion.

Crypto prices firmed on Thursday after Wednesday's inflation data showed core pressures easing, with bitcoin up about 1.9% in 24 hours to roughly $62,600. Over the past seven days, BTC was down less than 1% while several large caps stayed lower, including ether down about 6.5% to around $1,651 and solana down 7.4% near $65. Traders are also looking ahead to the Fed's June 17 meeting, where markets expect no rate change.