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Romania recorded the steepest annual decline in consumption in the European Union for June 2026, as per data from EU’s Statistical Office Eurostat.

Romania’s industrial producer price index (PPI) increased by 12.69% in June 2026 compared to June 2025, the country's statistical office INS has announced on Tuesday (August 4, 2026).

The preferred shares have recovered nearly 24% from their June closing low as Strategy builds its cash reserve and repurchases STRC. Strategy’s variable-rate preferred stock, STRC, closed above $90 for the first time in seven weeks, extending its recovery from a June selloff that raised concerns about the Bitcoin treasury company’s financial resilience. STRC closed at $92.32 on Monday, up 3.2% from Friday’s $89.46 close, according to Yahoo Finance data. It was the first close above $90 since June 16. The stock has recovered nearly 24% from its June 26 closing low of $74.57. Read more

Stablecoins have been flowing out of South Korean exchanges for 18 consecutive months as regulators weigh tighter oversight of cross-border crypto activity. South Korea saw 560.3 billion won ($367 million) in stablecoin outflows to overseas exchanges in June, extending the country’s streak of monthly net stablecoin outflows to 18 consecutive months.  The figure comes from Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) data obtained by Yonhap News Agency through People Power Party lawmaker Lee Jong-wook. South Korea’s five major crypto exchanges — Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax — transferred 2.7 trillion won ($1.81 billion) in stablecoins offshore in June and received 2.2 trillion won ($1.44 billion) from foreign platforms. Market participants cited by Yonhap attributed the transfers to demand for products restricted or unavailable on domestic exchanges, such as overseas derivatives, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), decentralized finance and staking products.  Read more

Romania's unemployment rate stood at 6.3% in June 2026, lower by 0.1 percentage points (pp) than in May 2026, the country's statistics office INS has announced on Thursday, July 30.

The value of medicines sold during the July 2025-June 2026 period to patients went up by 6.5% to RON38 billion (EUR7.4 billion), but the volume declined, by 5.3%, from the year-earlier period, in line with data provided by market research company Cegedim.

In June, the Ukrainian military placed orders through Brave1 Market for drones, ground robots, and electronic warfare (EW) and radio-electronic countermeasures (REC) equipment totaling a record 5 billion hryvnias.

Jan3 CEO Samson Mow says the recovery could signal renewed confidence in preferred-share products used by Bitcoin treasury companies. Strive’s SATA preferred shares have rebounded from a June low of $83.30 to about $97, recovering most of the selloff and moving back within roughly 3% of their $100 par value, according to Yahoo Finance data. Strive introduced SATA in November 2025 as part of its strategy to finance the expansion of its Bitcoin treasury through preferred equity. The variable-rate perpetual preferred stock is intended to trade near its $100 par value by adjusting its dividend rate, allowing Strive to raise capital for its Bitcoin (BTC) treasury without issuing additional common shares. SATA is one of a growing number of preferred-share products tied to Bitcoin treasury strategies, an emerging segment that companies such as Strategy describe as “digital credit.” Read more

Romania's private lending (loans to non-government sector granted by credit institutions) reached RON473.7 billion at the end of June 2026, 1.9% higher than in May 2026 and 8.4% higher than in June 2025, central bank data show on Thursday, July 23.

The Macroeconomic Confidence Index of CFA Romania Association rose in June by 7 points to 37.5 points, but remains at levels consistent with a recessionary situation, a risk also indicated by economic growth expectations for the current year.

Binance posted an 80% monthly jump in futures volume in June 2026, outpacing rivals OKX and Bybit as CEX spot markets fell to a two-year low. The post Binance Futures Surge 80% in June as Spot Markets Hit Two-Year Low appeared first on Cryptonews.

Romania annual inflation edged down in June, to 10.4%, from 10.9% in May, data from the country’s statistics office showed on Monday, July 13th.

A VIEW of the crumbling roof of one of the rooms at the ART Centre in Larkana, which is in a state of disrepair.—Dawn LARKANA: The Anti­ret­roviral Treatment (ART) Centre at Chandka Medical College (CMC) Children’s Hospital registered 73 new HIV-positive cases among children in June alone, with most patients belonging to different parts of Khairpur district, raising concerns over the growing burden on the facility and the shortage of healthcare staff. Officials at the centre said around 20 follow-up patients visit the facility daily. They pointed out that the centre was functioning without a pharmacist and required additional junior doctors to cope with the increasing caseload. The ART Centre operates under the Directorate of Communicable Disease Control (CDC). During a visit, Dawn observed that a portion of the ceiling plaster had fallen in the area where doctors and support staff perform their duties. Prof Dr Shanti Lal, head of the Department of Paediatrics at CMC Children’s Hospital, said routine HIV scre...

In Kyiv, power has been restored to the Dormition Cathedral, which sustained damage from the Russian attack on June 15.

In June, at least 265 civilians were killed, and 1,816 were injured as a result of Russian strikes on Ukraine—one of the highest civilian casualty figures since the start of the full-scale war.

Romania in the first half of this year manufactured just 247,972 passenger cars, 12.7% fewer than in the year-earlier period. This is the weakest year start of the past five years and in June the decline deepened to 16%.

Ukrainian air defense shot down 89% of drones and missiles during massive Russian attacks in June.

Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record last month as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the European Union’s (EU) climate monitor said Thursday. The report comes as a new heatwave is battering Europe this week, following a record-breaking one in June and an unusually early spring hot spell in May. The average temperature in western Europe reached 20.74 degrees Celsius in June, more than 3℃ above the 1991-2020 norm, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. It broke the region’s previous record set in June 2025. “We will see more heatwaves in a warmer world,” said Samantha Burgess, strategic climate lead at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), which operates Copernicus. “They will be more intense and they will last longer, and they will impact more geographical areas,” Burgess told AFP. It was the second hottest June on record for the world and for Europe as a whole, Copernicus said, as hum...

The National Institute of Statistics (INS) has maintained its estimates about the evolution of GDP in Q1 compared to the data announced in June, with the economy registering a 1.2% decline for the unadjusted series and a decrease of 1.1% for the seasonally adjusted series against the same quarter of 2025.

Ukraine's international reserves increased by 12.1% in June 2026, reaching $51.27 billion as of July 1.