SQUAWK BOX, WEDNESDAY 2ND JUNE, 2021

Demand optimism drives oil to a two-year high while Opec+ members agree to stick to the policy of gradually increasing production. U.S. markets come off a long weekend with stocks benefitting from pandemic reopening in June. However, Wall Street ended the session flat as investors anticipate this week’s U.S. jobs data. We speak exclusively to Russia’s central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina who says digital currencies represent the future of financial systems. Meanwhile, China’s Sinovac vaccine receives the green light from the WHO, boosting the COVAX program’s capacity to distribute jabs to poorer nations. And in Brussels, the EU signs off on a long-awaited tax transparency bill, but some MEPs remain unconvinced it will do enough to curb tax avoidance.