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The international rating agency Fitch Ratings has changed its outlook on France's credit rating from 'stable' to 'negative'. The decision was unscheduled: agencies usually publish revisions according to a pre-announced calendar.
Tether (the issuer of USDT, the largest stablecoin - a coin whose exchange rate is pegged to the dollar) reported $1.5 billion in operating profit for the third quarter of 2026. Since the start of the year, the result has reached $4.5 billion.
On October 30 at 12:11 Moscow time, preliminary data on price growth in Germany's largest federal states were released - a slowdown almost everywhere. This is the first guide to the national figure, on which the ECB's rhetoric in December depends.
Today at 15:30 MSK UK Finance Minister John Healey presents his first annual budget, and at 21:00 MSK the Fed will announce its rate. GBP/USD is already at 1.3300 - the lowest since October 19.
By the morning of Wednesday, October 28, BTC had risen almost 2% and came right up to $81,000, recovering the weekend when the price dropped to $79,000. But the main move was not in it: altcoins from the top ten outperformed Bitcoin across the board.
XAU/USD is fluctuating around $4,000 on Tuesday and has already dipped below it, despite easing US rate expectations. Trading is taking place near $4,012, slightly above last week's three-month low of $3,975.
France has become Europe's main problem: the yield on its 10-year government bonds (OATs) broke through 5%, and the spread with German paper reached 158-160 basis points - the widest since 2011, that is, since the height of the eurozone debt crisis.
The September report came out on October 15 at 15:31 MSK and turned out to be more than twice as strong as the forecast. But almost all of the growth came from gasoline and restaurants, while the part of the report key for GDP calculation fell short of the forecast.
October 12 is a holiday in the US - Columbus Day. The stock market is open, but government bond trading is closed, so investors are temporarily left without one of the main benchmarks of recent weeks - Treasury yields.
The yield on 30-year US Treasury bonds has risen to 5.70%, the highest level since 2002. Rising yields increase pressure on gold, raise borrowing costs and make stocks less attractive relative to government debt.
