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On June 11, Wedbush stated in a report that Oracle is taking the right steps to meet the surging demand for AI. Despite the company's stock price dropping 9% in pre-market trading following the announcement of its fourth-quarter results, Wedbush analysts noted that prepayments from Oracle's AI contracts and hardware provided by customers have acted as a buffer. The analysts indicated that these factors have reduced the amount of funding Oracle needs to raise and kept the financing requirements for fiscal year 2027 manageable in relation to the scale of AI demand. Oracle announced on Wednesday that it expects to raise $40 billion in debt and equity financing this year, which includes a previously announced $20 billion equity offering.

BlockBeats News, June 11 - The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that 37-year-old Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk and 25-year-old Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev have been arrested and criminally charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. The U.S. prosecutors stated that the two individuals are accused of operating a cryptocurrency money laundering service known as "AudiA6," which is believed to have been responsible for laundering over $389 million in cryptocurrency. Tkachuk is a Ukrainian citizen, Ledenev is a Russian citizen, and both reside in Batumi, Georgia, where they are currently detained by Georgian authorities. The U.S. prosecutors intend to seek the extradition of both individuals to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. According to the criminal complaint, Tkachuk and Ledenev are senior members of the AudiA6 organization, which operates the cryptocurrency laundering service and the Dark2Web online cybercrime forum. The complaint alleges that AudiA6 explicitly advertised on Dark2Web that it could charge up to a 5% fee to help clients conceal and obfuscate the original source of cryptocurrency funds traceable to criminal activity. Law enforcement agencies identified through blockchain analysis that since AudiA6 launched in 2021, approximately 10,333 BTC have been deposited into AudiA6's cryptocurrency wallets, with a total value at the time of the transactions of approximately $3.897 billion. Approximately 393.39 BTC were directly linked to known darknet markets, ransomware organizations, cybercrime services, and other illicit sources, with a value at the time of the transactions of about $19.23 million. If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

BlockBeats News, June 11th. Due to the continued inflationary pressure from the Iran conflict, the U.S. saw the fastest rise in producer prices in over three years in May. Data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday showed that the U.S. May PPI rose by 6.5% year-on-year, marking the largest increase since November 2022; a 1.1% increase month-on-month. The core PPI, which excludes food and energy, rose by 4.9% year-on-year. This report highlights the increasingly severe impact of the energy price shock caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz on the U.S. economy. As the conflict is unlikely to be resolved in the short term, businesses are passing on higher energy and transportation costs, making other goods and services more expensive. Combined with earlier data this week showing the fastest rise in consumer prices in three years in May, Thursday's PPI report may further reinforce the market's expectations of a Fed rate hike in 2026. With the labor market seemingly regaining momentum, the Fed is shifting its focus to containing inflation. (Kylow)