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Intel said the global personal computer market will shrink by about 12% in 2026 and another 10% in 2027. On Friday, October 30, the entire semiconductor sector and computer makers were sold off.
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.
In its 10-Q report (a mandatory quarterly report public companies file with the SEC, the US market regulator), Microsoft for the first time named the exact amount of money OpenAI brings in: $10.0B for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. That is about 11% of the company's total quarterly revenue.
On October 29, the Coinbase Premium Index dropped to -0.27% — the lowest since November 2022, when the FTX exchange collapsed. Put simply, US investors are selling BTC more actively than they are buying it.
HTX (a crypto exchange formerly known as Huobi) has agreed to stop attracting clients from the UK. The commitments were formalized through the High Court of London and are valid until October 21, 2031.
By the Friday open, the S&P 500 had lost 1.22% and moved to 7626.09 - below the September 30 close (7651.54). As recently as Wednesday evening, the month was up 1.21%; now October is down 0.33%.
Intel shares collapsed on Friday from $92.07 to $64.25, and the company lost about $147 billion in market capitalization in a single session. Intraday, the decline exceeded the record of July 5, 1974, which had stood for 55 years.
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng stated that no traces of a private key leak (secret access codes to wallets) were found. At the same time, 11 keys of the exchange's hot wallets (wallets connected to the network for fast payouts) signed transfers to the attacker's address. Withdrawals from the exchange are still halted.
Intel shares (the largest American processor manufacturer) fell 23.56% to $70.39 in Friday's overnight trading - that's minus $21.69 from Thursday's close of $92.07. The market punished the company not for the past quarter, but for its guidance for the coming ones.
Strategy (Michael Saylor's company, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin) reported third-quarter 2026 results with net income of $19.53 billion versus $2.79 billion a year earlier. Almost all of it is paper: it is a revaluation of crypto reserves, not business income.
Analytics firm TRM Labs linked the Binance hack "with high confidence" to the TraderTraitor group - the FBI's name for North Korean state hackers, who are classified as part of the Lazarus Group. This is four times more than the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit in February 2025.
On Friday, South Korea's main KOSPI index plummeted 5.25% to 5,626.02 points (05:20 MSK). SK hynix lost 8.65%, Samsung Electronics - 6.03%. The reason is investors' doubts about the returns on artificial intelligence investments, not poor earnings reports.
Spot gold on Friday lost the psychological mark of $4,000 per ounce and traded at $3,997.25 (-0.58% for the day). Silver fell almost 2%, to $51.147 - the lowest since November 2025. For gold, this is the second consecutive day of decline and about -3.5% for the month.
Binance co-founder Yi He said withdrawals will begin to resume within 48 hours. The exchange halted withdrawals overnight after the attack, which it estimates caused $6.3 billion in damage, and promises to cover all user losses.
Overnight on October 30, about $6.3 billion left Binance's hot wallets (exchange storage connected to the network for fast withdrawals) - the largest theft in crypto history, four times larger than the $1.5 billion Bybit hack in February 2025.
On October 29, XAU/USD fell more than 1% - from the day's high of $4,069 to $4,019. Strong US economic data interrupted gold's three-day winning streak and reinforced the market's bet that the Fed will raise rates in December.
At the market open on Thursday, Alphabet (Google's parent company) shares plunged 13.18% to $279.47 - the strongest one-day drop in the company's history. About $522 billion was wiped off its market capitalization, which fell to $3.44 trillion.
Prop firm SpiceProp has launched a Halloween promotion: a single promo code gives three bonuses at once on any challenge, and a $300,000 funded account will additionally be raffled among buyers.
The European Central Bank on 29 October at 16:15 MSK kept its key rate at 2.65% - exactly as the market expected and as at the previous meeting. No changes to any of the three rates.
Reuters reported on October 28 that Bloomberg, Susquehanna International Group and Jump Trading have subscribed to the Truth API — a paid data feed from Trump Media that delivers Donald Trump's posts roughly 50 milliseconds faster than the social network's regular notifications. The subscription costs between $60,000 and $100,000 a month.
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.
