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Mortgage rates hover near 6.5% as other housing metrics show modest improvement: Mortgage rates today, July 2, 2026
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DAILY ISSUE · 2026-06-22
Monday 22 June 2026
7 dispatches · every item carries a primary source and independent corroboration.
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CFTC Seeks Comment on 24/7 Trading of Standard Futures and Perpetual Contracts on Physically Delivered Energy Commodities
The CFTC said on June 22 it issued a request for comment on two related developments in energy derivatives markets: the extension of standard futures contracts to 24/7 trading, and the potential listing of perpetual contracts referencing physically delivered or storable energy commodities such as crude oil. Both items were framed as seeking public input, per the commission's pr
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MARKETS · rates central banks · 2026-06-22SCOOP 57
Semiannual Report on Currency and Monetary Control (Summary)
The Bank of Japan published the summary of its Semiannual Report on Currency and Monetary Control on June 22, covering October 2025 through March 2026 and submitted to the Diet in June 2026. Per the report summary, the Bank held the overnight call rate at 0.5% through December before raising it to 0.75% at the December meeting, across four policy meetings in the period. It also
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CYBER · ransomware threat groups · 2026-06-22SCOOP 57
Cisco Packaged and Unified Contact Center Enterprise Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Cisco's June 22 advisory covers multiple cross-site scripting flaws in the web-based management interfaces of Packaged Contact Center Enterprise (Packaged CCE) and Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE). Per Cisco, the interfaces do not properly validate user-supplied input, letting an authenticated remote attacker inject malicious code into specific pages and execute
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MEMOS · sec filings · 2026-06-22SCOOP 63
FTC Finalizes Consent Order Requiring Rollins to Stop Enforcing Noncompetes Against More Than 18,000 Employees
The Federal Trade Commission finalized a consent order requiring Rollins Inc. — described by the agency as one of the largest pest-control companies in the United States — to stop enforcing noncompete agreements against more than 18,000 employees nationwide, per the FTC's June 22 press release.
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NVIDIA Details Role in NSF's NAIRR Pilot Spanning 700+ Research Projects
NVIDIA said in a June 22 blog post that the US National Science Foundation's National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot has driven research across more than 700 projects over the past two years, spanning protein prediction and infectious-disease outbreak management. Per the company, NVIDIA contributed a cloud-based resource giving researchers dedicated acc
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NVIDIA Unveils DAQIRI, ALCHEMI NIM Microservices and cuPhoton for Science at ISC
NVIDIA announced new scientific-computing software at the ISC conference in Hamburg during the week of June 22, per the company's blog: the NVIDIA DAQIRI library, new ALCHEMI NIM microservices, and cuPhoton reference code described as coming soon. The company positions the releases as accelerating AI for science, from chemistry and materials discovery to the search for dark mat
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