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LightBox Monthly CRE Activity Index Continues Trajectory of Improvement

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IRVINE, Calif., July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LightBox, a leading provider of commercial real estate (CRE) information and technology, released its Monthly CRE Activity Index for June, reflecting the fourth month in a row of improvement.

The LightBox Monthly CRE Activity Index provides an aggregate view of the market with information on property listings, due diligence and valuation activity enabling market participants to identify inflection points in CRE activity. The June LightBox CRE Activity Index now stands at 93.9, an uptick over May’s 87.2 and well above December’s three-year low water mark of 48.2.

According to the report commentary, the latest improvements in the CRE Activity Index supports anecdotal evidence that even with interest rate cuts effectively on hold pending more definitive inflation data, the CRE market is moving forward slowly and cautiously.

June 2024 continued to demonstrate a slow pace of market thaw after the late 2022/early 2023 slowdown. At the start of 2024, most forecasters anticipated that the Federal Reserve would have reduced interest rates by now so it’s worth noting that despite any change in monetary policy, slow momentum is building in commercial property investment, lending, loan divestitures, and distressed asset deals.

“With every passing month, we’re seeing evidence that intrepid CRE professionals are wading into the waters of dealmaking. While the market is still below the early 2021 Index baseline, these recent signs are encouraging as the industry readies itself for the transfer of assets that typically happens after an economic downturn,” said Manus Clancy, LightBox head of Data Strategy.

The latest LightBox CRE Activity Index suggests that several tailwinds are fueling continued improvements as assets move into play, either due to forced transactions or because market players are willingly putting properties on the selling block as the bid-ask spread narrows.

“Among the more encouraging signs recently has been the uptick in big portfolio sales — the fact that there are multiple bidders for many distressed office sales, and that property sales are taking place across all segments of the market. The LightBox team talked extensively about this on the recent CRE Weekly Digest podcast—that buyers are no longer waiting for another leg down in property values. They are putting cash to work, which is a great sign,” Clancy said.

As for what to expect in the near term, the report noted that if last July is any indication, the July 2024 CRE Activity Index could come in slightly below June due to a characteristic summer slowdown, but this year is anything but typical. 

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About LightBox

At LightBox, we are at the forefront of delivering advanced and precise solutions for commercial real estate intelligence. Our dedication to innovation propels real estate professionals forward by providing them with the essential tools required to navigate complex decisions, minimize risk, and boost productivity across the spectrum of real estate operations. LightBox is renowned for its commitment to promoting excellence and fostering connections in the industry, serving an extensive clientele of over 30,000 customers. Our diverse client base spans commercial and government sectors, including but not limited to brokers, developers, investors, lenders, insurers, technologists, environmental advisors, appraisers, and other businesses that depend on geospatial information. To discover more about how LightBox can illuminate the path to informed real estate solutions, visit us at: www.LightBoxRE.com

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BSE Index Services launches BSE Saatvik 100 Index

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MUMBAI, India, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BSE Index Services Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE, today announced the launch of India’s 1st Saatvik Index, BSE Saatvik 100. The Index is derived from the constituents of BSE 500 Index that align with Saatvik principles.

The BSE Saatvik 100 Index has a base value of 1000, first value date is 20th June 2005, and it is reconstituted Semi-annually in June & December.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Ashutosh Singh, MD & CEO, BSE Index Services Pvt. Ltd. said, “The launch of the BSE Saatvik 100 Index marks an important step in broadening the range of thematic indices available to investors seeking alignment between their investment decisions and value-based principles. As capital markets continue to evolve, investor preferences are increasingly extending beyond traditional financial metrics to include ethical, cultural and philosophy-driven considerations. The Index represents a distinctive addition to India’s indexing landscape and provides market participants with a credible foundation for the development of passive, structured and other investment products aligned with this philosophy.”

This new index can be used for running passive strategies such as ETFs and Index Funds. It can also be used for benchmarking of PMS strategies, MF schemes and fund portfolio. Investors can now access a broader spectrum of market opportunities, further enriching their investment strategies with this latest addition to BSE’s suite of indices.

Click here to know more about the index.

About BSE INDEX SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED:

BSE Index Services Pvt. Ltd. (formerly Asia Index Pvt. Ltd.) is a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE Ltd, Asia’s oldest stock exchange and home to the iconic SENSEX index – a leading indicator of Indian equity market performance. BSE Index Services Pvt. Ltd aims to provide a full array of indices to global / domestic investors and calculates, publishes, and maintains a diverse family of indices.

About BSE:

BSE is Asia’s oldest exchange and the world’s largest exchange in terms of the number of listed companies. BSE has been playing a prominent role in developing the Indian capital market and has successfully offered an efficient capital raising platform to many companies in India. The benchmark index of BSE, Sensex, is tracked by investors across the globe is also considered as a barometer for the growth of Indian Economy. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments, equity derivatives, currency derivatives, interest rate derivatives, mutual funds, stock lending and borrowing.

 

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Belgravia Hartford Provides Technical Progress Update on gravitio.ai it’s Prediction Intelligence Platform

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Gravitio reports 5,874 recorded AI-agent predictions since April 2026, more than 8,000 cloned AI agents, early internal crypto and football prediction-performance metrics, expanded sports coverage, and continued development of its proprietary prediction-performance data layer.

TORONTO, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – Belgravia Hartford Capital Inc. (CSE: BLGV) (OTCQB: BLGVF) (FRA: ECA) (“Belgravia” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide a technical progress update for https://gravitio.ai (“Gravitio”), the Company’s fully wholly owned AI-powered prediction intelligence platform.

Gravitio has advanced its AI-agent infrastructure, prediction-tracking systems, scoring formulas, sports coverage, and market-signal tools, generating 5,874 recorded AI-agent predictions and expanding to more than 8,000 cloned AI agents across supported categories. These developments strengthen Gravitio’s ability to analyze selected market and event data, generate structured predictions, evaluate outcomes, and build a proprietary prediction-performance data layer.

Internal Prediction Performance

Gravitio’s crypto-market agents have recorded approximately 65% accuracy across selected short-term and long-term crypto prediction categories, based on the internal tracking methodology and completed predictions measured through Gravitio’s internal result-tracking process. For World Cup 2026-related football activity, Gravitio is tracking approximately 60% live accuracy across early tournament data, including match outcomes, scoring, and tournament-related categories.

These internal performance metrics are based on Company records and internal methodology. They have not been independently validated and should be viewed as product-development indicators only, not as guarantees of future prediction accuracy, trading performance, betting results, user outcomes, revenue, or commercial success. Such predictions are not financial advice or recommendations to place any wager or expect financial returns. Past predictions do not guarantee or reflect future outcomes.

User Growth Since Pilot Stage

Since Gravitio began pilot-stage activity in April 2026, the platform has grown to more than 4,000 registered users, primarily through web-based channels, early online discovery, and initial user onboarding. Belgravia views this early registered user base as an initial indicator of interest in Gravitio’s AI-agent, prediction, challenge, and gamification features as the platform advances through its public market rollout.

AI-Agent Infrastructure and Proprietary Data Layer

Gravitio’s AI-agent architecture supports scalable testing across various markets, sports categories, time horizons, prediction models, and data-weighting structures. Beyond generating predictions, this infrastructure underpins a proprietary prediction-performance data layer: every AI-agent prediction, user prediction, confidence score, scoring event, and verified outcome can contribute structured data that may support stronger AI models, agent benchmarking, user-performance scoring, improved rankings, advanced analytics, and potential business-to-business intelligence applications.

Sports, Scoring, and Market-Signal Improvements

Gravitio has expanded its sports prediction coverage beyond FIFA 2026 Tournament to include LALIGA, SERIEA, BUNDESLIGA, LIGUE1, MLS, UCL, MLB, UFC, F1, EUROLEAGUE, NBA, AFL. Gravitio has also improved its tournament prediction and scoring framework, including updated formulas that place greater weight on higher-precision predictions and category-specific difficulty, to better evaluate prediction quality and create more useful performance data across sports and event categories. Gravitio continues to improve its data-gathering and market-signal infrastructure to support stronger data ingestion, better event tracking, and more consistent evaluation of prediction results.

Market and Jurisdictional Expansion

Belgravia is reviewing opportunities to introduce Gravitio across additional markets and jurisdictions as part of its broader growth plan, considering regulatory requirements, product availability, user demand, sports and financial-data access, technology infrastructure, third-party data dependencies, payment systems, app-store availability, and local compliance considerations.

CTO Commentary

Mr.Mehrdad Safarmohammadloo, Chief Technology Officer of Gravitio, commented:

“Since April, our focus has been on strengthening the technical foundation of Gravitio. We have expanded our AI-agent infrastructure, increased the number of recorded predictions, improved our data pipelines, and developed new scoring formulas to better evaluate prediction performance across different categories. The most important part of this work is the data layer behind the system — every agent prediction, user prediction, final result, and scoring event helps us understand how the platform performs and where it can improve. Gravitio is being designed as an adaptive prediction system, not a static prediction application. Our objective is to continue improving the relationship between data, AI agents, human prediction activity, and verified outcomes as we prepare the platform for broader commercial, market, and jurisdictional expansion.”

About Gravitio

Gravitio is an AI-powered prediction intelligence platform developed by Belgravia Hartford Capital Inc., designed to analyze selected markets, sports, events, and real-world outcomes through AI agents, data gathering, machine-learning systems, user predictions, scoring formulas, and performance tracking. Gravitio is publicly available through its web, iOS, and Android applications. For more information, visit https://gravitio.ai.

About Belgravia Hartford Capital Inc.

Belgravia Hartford Capital Inc. is an investment issuer focused on technology, finance, artificial intelligence, digital assets, and related investment opportunities. Listed for trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange and OTCQB, focused on the tech and finance sectors of the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Company’s focus, as set out in its 2018 Investment Policy, specifies cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, media and digital streaming opportunities. Belgravia invests in a portfolio of private and public companies located in jurisdictions governed by the rule of law. Belgravia and its investments are considered very high-risk holdings, and it may expose shareholders to significant volatility and losses.

Forward-Looking Statements and Disclaimer

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Belgravia, Gravitio, the Company’s technology development strategy, AI-agent infrastructure, prediction systems, sports prediction features, World Cup 2026-related prediction activity, user growth, scoring systems, data infrastructure, third-party validation options, market and jurisdictional expansion, product development, and future commercial opportunities. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainties, regulatory requirements, technical dependencies, product validation, market conditions, commercial execution risk, digital asset market volatility, user adoption, data availability, third-party service dependencies, app-store requirements, payment-processing requirements, and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially.

Gravitio’s prediction outputs are probabilistic and are not guaranteed. Any references to prediction accuracy, verified predictions, agent performance, scoring systems, user counts, or internal tracking results are based on Company records and internal methodology and may change as additional data becomes available. The internal prediction-performance metrics described in this press release have not been independently validated and should not be interpreted as a guarantee of future prediction accuracy, investment performance, trading performance, betting results, user outcomes, revenue, or commercial success.

The content of this press release should not be interpreted as financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, betting and gambling advice, or a guarantee of profit, income, prediction accuracy, or future monetary return.

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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CGTN: China, Myanmar agree to deepen pragmatic cooperation across the board

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BEIJING, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Marking a new milestone in bilateral ties, President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing completed his first state visit to China from June 15 to 19, opening a new chapter of in-depth, multi-field pragmatic cooperation between the two neighboring countries.

By visiting China Railway Construction Corporation Limited in Beijing and traveling from the Chinese capital to Shanghai aboard the Fuxing high-speed train, the Myanmar president experienced China’s development achievements firsthand, and voiced Myanmar’s strong willingness to further expand practical infrastructure cooperation with China.

Throughout the fruitful visit, the two countries signed a series of cooperation agreements, consolidating their time-honored “pauk-phaw” friendship.

During a meeting with Min Aung Hlaing on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said China stands ready to share its development experience with Myanmar and jointly build a China-Myanmar community with a shared future, which is underpinned by political amity and mutual trust, win-win development, security coordination and people-to-people exchanges.

For years, China has remained Myanmar’s largest trading partner, largest source of imports and most important source of investment. Bilateral trade reached $19.4 billion in 2025, up 19.1% year on year.

Boasting prominent structural complementarity, the trade landscape sees China exporting electromechanical equipment and vehicles to Myanmar while importing high-quality agricultural products and mineral resources from Myanmar, forming a mutually beneficial and stable industrial and trade cycle.

As a key landmark of Belt and Road cooperation, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor has entered a fast-track development phase. A cluster of flagship projects, including the New Yangon City, the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone and the China-Myanmar Railway, have gradually taken shape, forming a solid framework for the construction of the corridor.

These major connectivity projects have effectively driven Myanmar’s industrial upgrading, and improved local livelihoods, injecting strong impetus into cross-border economic integration.

During Tuesday’s talks, Xi reiterated that the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor is a flagship project of the Belt and Road cooperation.

The two sides need to steadily advance the construction of major projects on the basis of ensuring safety and security, and support Myanmar in growing its economy and improving livelihoods, he said.

China, Xi added, stands ready to implement more “small and beautiful” assistance programs, and jointly tell the stories of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries.

China and Myanmar on Tuesday issued a lengthy joint statement on accelerating the building of a community with a shared future between the two countries to better benefit the people of both countries.

In a demonstration of the depth and breadth of bilateral relations, the two sides signed a number of cooperative documents, covering transport, science and technology, intellectual property rights, human resources development, public health and media.

Bilateral and multilateral law-enforcement cooperation to combat cross-border criminal activities was also highlighted during the visit, with China and Myanmar expressing their support for the establishment of an international alliance against telecom cyber fraud.

Over recent months, through joint law enforcement coordination, China and Myanmar have cracked down the telecom fraud criminal operations in northern Myanmar, effectively upholding peace and stability along the border as well as the safety of lives and property of people of both countries.

During the talks, Xi said the two sides need to continue cracking down on criminal activities including online gambling, telecom fraud and drug trafficking, and fully safeguard the interests and security of the two peoples.

For his part, Min Aung Hlaing said Myanmar stands ready to work closely with China to resolutely combat online gambling and telecom fraud and safeguard security and stability in the border areas.

Qu Jianwen, chief of the Yunnan Province Association for Southeast Asian Studies, wrote that the China visit by Myanmar’s president vividly demonstrates the sound and growing momentum of bilateral cooperation.

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