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Gold (XAU/USD) slipped to $4,036 on Thursday, losing 0.76% for the day and ending a three-day winning streak. The reason is the outcome of the Fed meeting: the rate was left untouched, but the option of a hike in December remained on the table, and key data on this issue is released today.
The UK regulator FCA has obtained court undertakings from the HTX exchange (formerly Huobi): the company will not knowingly advertise crypto services to Britons in circumvention of the law. For users from the United Kingdom, the exchange is effectively closed.
On October 28, US spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds through which Bitcoin is bought like a regular stock) raised $137.3M, while Ethereum and Solana funds lost money again. Across the three markets combined, the result was +$110.2M.
Exchange holding ICE (Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange) will give access to perpetual futures trading in the US, and they will be settled through the crypto platform Hyperliquid. The plans were reported on October 29.
BTC has lost almost 2% and is holding around $80,150, briefly dipping below $80,000. For Strategy (Michael Saylor's company, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin), this means its coins are worth only 6% more than it paid for them.
On October 28, Tether (the issuer of USDT, the largest stablecoin - a coin with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar) blacklisted at least 33 addresses on the TRON network. The owners can no longer move a single coin from them.
Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, has told staff that she plans to leave her post on February 7. This concerns the person who sets the rate for the entire eurozone, that is, directly influences the EUR/USD exchange rate.
Alphabet (Google's parent company) shares plunged almost 10% in after-hours trading following its quarterly report. On the morning of October 29, this dragged Nasdaq 100 futures down to 29,620 points.
On October 26, miners (companies that mine new BTC) transferred 21,140 BTC to Binance in a single stream - about $1.7 billion at prices at that time. Their own reserves dropped to 1.19 million BTC, nearly a five-plus-year low.
In its 10-Q filing (a mandatory quarterly document for the US market regulator, the SEC), Microsoft disclosed for the first time how much its deal with OpenAI brings in: $10 billion for July-September. That is about 11% of the corporation's total revenue.
The European Central Bank holds its rate meeting today, October 29. According to a Bloomberg survey, analysts unanimously expect the rate to remain unchanged.
A day of double macro statistics: first the US data block at 15:30, then the ECB rate decision at 16:15 and the press conference at 16:45. In the evening, reports from Amazon, Intel and Coinbase are added.
The US publishes preliminary data on quarterly economic growth. The consensus expects more than a twofold acceleration - from 1.5% to 3.2% on an annualized basis. A high-importance event: the market reassembles its Fed rate expectations based on it.
Alphabet (Google's parent company) reported for Q3 on the evening of October 28 at 23:00 Moscow time and lost 10% in the evening session. It wasn't revenue that let it down, but profit and cash: free cash flow went negative for the second quarter in a row.
The European Central Bank will announce its rate decision today at 16:15 MSK, and at 16:45 MSK the press conference of ECB President Christine Lagarde will begin. The euro approaches the event at 1.1110 - this is the lowest level of the EUR/USD pair since May 2025.
Over the past 24 hours, $356 million worth of positions were forcibly closed on the crypto market's futures, and almost 60% of them were longs. Bitcoin dropped from $81,700 to $79,800 during the Asian session on Thursday, cutting short a two-day rebound.
On the evening of October 28, from 21:52 to 22:05 Moscow time, Warsh answered questions on Fed policy. Main statement: he does not believe in preliminary signals to the market about future regulator decisions.
On the evening of October 28, the Fed left the rate at 3.75-4%, although US inflation is still above the 2% target. The decision was not unanimous: two votes went for a 0.25 percentage point hike - a rare picture that immediately pushed currencies in different directions.
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said on October 28 at 21:36 MSK that the regulator is changing the FOMC meeting schedule (the Fed committee that sets the US key rate) starting next autumn. The total number of meetings will remain the same - 8 per year - but not every one of them will end with a rate decision.
On the evening of October 28, Oracle (an American corporation, one of the largest providers of cloud infrastructure and enterprise software) confirmed its financial targets for fiscal 2027. ORCL shares responded with a gain of about 10%.
The decision was made by a vote of 10 to 2: Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack insisted on an immediate 0.25 percentage point increase. Six weeks earlier, the committee had made the same decision unanimously.
South Korean Mirae Asset has agreed to buy the proprietary trading division from Japan's Okasan Securities. The deal is worth about $32 million, and through it the Korean group is entering the Japanese market. Nikkei Asia reported the deal on October 28.
Bitcoin failed to hold above $81,687 and dropped to $80,297 on the Bitstamp exchange, down about 0.3% over the day. Buyers did not break through the 50-day moving average ahead of the Fed decision and tech earnings reports.
Galaxy Research analyzed the filings of major managers: nine hedge funds and banks cut their positions in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs by 68,000 BTC - about $5.4 billion. The reason is not a bet against the market, but that the arbitrage scheme has almost stopped generating income.
