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In Focus
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Week InReview: June 12, 2026
Futures extend rally. US stock futures are pointing to more gains on Wall Street at the open. European equities are climbing, and the dollar is flat, with all eyes on SpaceX’s trading debut after the biggest-ever IPO (more on that below). | Stocks stateside halted a two-day drop on Thursday, with the Nasdaq-100 closing up more than 3%. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index jumped nearly 8%. US equity futures were in the green on Friday. | Stocks in Asia jumped, with South Korea leading the charge. The Kospi surged around 8%, led by local chipmakers. MSCI’s Asia Pacific equity index climbed by the most in two months. European futures also rose while US contracts were largely steady after a rally in cash indexes. The Korean won led regional peers higher against the dollar, with the Indian rupee and Indonesian rupiah among the top performers. Foreign funds started buying more Indonesian assets following this week’s surprise rate hike, the central bank said. In the meantime, India is preparing for a wider-than-expected budget deficit this year, an official familiar with the matter said. | Oil extended overnight losses, with WTI futures trading below $86 a barrel early on Friday. Iran has not yet approved the text of any agreement with the US, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. | US Treasuries rallied, with yields sliding across maturities, as optimism about Iran spurred traders to price in lower chances of a Fed interest-rate hike this year. | The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index was little changed after dropping 0.3% on Thursday, its worst one-day performance since May 6. After the ECB’s first tightening since 2023, officials aren’t ruling out a second hike in rates as soon as their next policy meeting, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Week InAdvance: June 8, 2026
Mon Jun 8 Pope Leo XIV begins a seven-day trip to Spain. The Formula 1 season continues. NBA Finals continue. | Tue Jun 9 World Bank to discuss global policy in Bangkok. | Wed Jun 10 US May inflation data, Canada rate decision. | Thu Jun 11 SEC's trading & markets panel meets on Reg NMS. MSRB will discuss regs. ECB rate decision. FIFA World Cup kickoff. | Fri Jun 12 Macron and Carney meet in Paris. EU FinMins meet in Luxembourg. Russia Day, a national holiday to mark Russia's declaration of state sovereignty in 1990. SpaceX expected to debut on the Nasdaq. | Sat Jun 13 Le Mans sports car race begins. | Sun Jun 14 Switzerland will vote on a proposal to limit immigration when the country reaches a population of 10 million
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Week InReview: June 5, 2026
S&P winning streak under pressure. The S&P 500 is set to break a historic weekly run of gains as the artificial-intelligence trade takes another leg lower. Investors are also looking ahead to the US jobs report for May (more on that below). | US equity futures fell, with the Kospi dropping more than 4%. Brent crude edged higher above $95/bbl. There was no sign of progress in US-Iran talks after the worst burst of violence in weeks. The Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia on Thursday rejected a US-brokered truce in Lebanon. Oman’s Mina al Fahal terminal suspended oil loading following an explosion near its single-buoy mooring berths, Reuters reported. Foreigners sold another 2.4 trillion won ($1.6 billion) of the Korean benchmark’s shares as of midday in Seoul, taking this week’s exit to more than $10 billion. | S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for main benchmarks like the S&P 500 Index, rejecting proposals that would have made it faster for mega-cap companies such as SpaceX to gain rapid entry after going public. Meanwhile, SpaceX increased the amount it’s planning to raise from the Japanese portion of its share sale by a quarter, indicating strong demand among the country’s retail investors. | The European Union’s trade envoy told his Chinese counterpart to address the “unsustainable” trade imbalance between the two economies, as the bloc weighs new restrictive measures against Beijing. | Japan likely drew on its holdings of foreign securities, including US Treasuries, to finance its record currency market intervention over the past month. The nation’s workers’ real wages increased for a fourth month, marking the longest stretch of gains in four years and bolstering the case for the BOJ to raise interest rates this month. The yen was little changed, trading near 160/dollar.
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The Association of Institutional INVESTORS is an organization of the oldest, largest, and most trusted federally registered investment advisers in the United States. All our members have a fiduciary duty to put their clients' interests first. Put simply, it's not our money. Our members' clients include companies and labor unions, public and private pension plans, mutual funds and 401Ks, and individuals and families who depend on our firms to help them provide for their retirements, to have funds available to educate their family members, to meet other obligations, and to support their financial aspirations. Collectively, the Association's members manage investments for more than 80,000 ERISA pension plans, 401Ks, and mutual funds on behalf of more than 100 million American workers and retirees.Our financial markets connect companies to investors and borrowers to lenders to help corporations create jobs, cities and states build needed roads, bridges, and schools, families finance homes and cars, and pension plans at all levels meet their obligations. These markets allow thousands of organizations and millions of individuals to invest in America, sharing in the success of our nation's businesses and maintaining a stake in the strength of cities, counties, states, and our country.
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