Quick Overview

• YoY Swiss industrial production rose 7.3%.
  

• Standard and Poor's raised credit ratings for three large Japanese banks, citing improved balance sheets and an improved economy.
  

• The National Association of Homebuilders sentiment index fell from 30 to 28 in June. The lowest level in more than 16 years.
  

• Brazil, the world's biggest producer of the sweetener and sugarcane-based ethanol, will increase the required blend of the biofuel in domestic gasoline to 25 percent from 23 percent starting July 1.
  
  

• Shanghai is set to overtake Singapore as the world's busiest port in 2008.