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Santiment (an analytics platform that tracks crypto market data) reported on the morning of November 14: the total open positions in BTC futures have fallen to August values. Borrowed volume is leaving the market.
XAU/USD is closing the week down almost 4.5% and sits near $3,879 - the bottom in 13 months. Pressure comes from US Treasury yields at 5.15% and the dollar index at a 19-month high.
Decentralized exchange Hyperliquid closed the third quarter with a record $16.8 billion in open interest (the sum of all open futures positions) and for the first time surpassed three major centralized competitors on this metric.
India's Enforcement Directorate conducted raids on November 4 and 5 at three offices in Bengaluru. The country's largest crypto exchange by turnover, CoinDCX, and the derivatives platform Delta Exchange India came under scrutiny: they are suspected of circumventing currency legislation.
The euro against the dollar has fallen to its lowest level in a year and a half, while the DXY dollar index has risen to 103.08 - also an 18-month high. By the European session, the pair had recovered part of the decline and is holding around 1.1090.
The main US securities market regulator filed a brief in Manhattan court on November 9 asking the judge not to halt trading in perpetual futures on US stocks. Cboe and Citadel Securities filed the lawsuit against the CFTC - now both agencies are against them.
XAU/USD fell to $3,985 per ounce - the second decline in a row. The trigger is October US inflation: after the report, futures price a Fed rate hike at the December meeting as a done deal.
The board is preparing to fire the founder and the only CEO in the company's history and is already selecting a candidate. The stock, which closed Wednesday in positive territory, plunged to $157 in the evening session.
The monthly subscription for the evaluation on a $100,000 account costs $330 at list price, and $165 with the active coupon from the partner catalog. The $130 activation fee has been abolished, and the minimum evaluation period has been cut from five trading days to three.
The Central Bank published a release on November 11: from November 22, 2026, Russian exchanges have the right to open organized trading in cryptocurrencies. This concerns infrastructure at the level of the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) and SPB Exchange (SPBE).
The yen weakens for the second day in a row after October US inflation data. The market has almost fully priced in a Fed rate hike in December, and less than a figure remains to the 160 level, near which Tokyo has already entered the market with interventions.
After two days of selling, Nvidia shares reversed upward on Wednesday. The company's own reaction to the scandal surrounding CEO Jensen Huang worked: an external law firm will check whether corporate secrets and US national security were compromised.
On the morning of November 11, US index futures reversed upward: the market received a signal of de-escalation around Iran and strong earnings in the artificial intelligence sector. A day earlier, the same indices closed lower after inflation data.
On Tuesday, spot gold plunged almost 3%, to $4017.21 per ounce, after US inflation for October accelerated more than forecast. By 06:03 Moscow time on Wednesday, the metal had recovered part of the decline - $4043.62 per ounce, up 0.3%.
After a speech by Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed Board of Governors, bets on a December hike jumped from 76.3% to 96.3% within a few hours. Bitcoin fell 1.3% to $74,080, while gold and stocks moved down along with it.
On November 8, during the XRP decline, long positions worth almost $39M were forcibly closed, while shorts totaled only $366K. The hundredfold skew shows which side of the market was carrying leverage.
The US consumer price report is published today at 16:30 Moscow time, but it will not include a year-on-year change. The reason is the US government shutdown a year earlier, because of which some of the data was simply not collected. This was reported by CNBC.
The Trump administration approved the purchase and assembly of Nvidia H200 AI accelerators by Chinese companies that are linked to entities on the American blacklist and to military suppliers. The New York Times reported this on the evening of November 9.
The story around the personal ties of Jensen Huang, the founder and head of Nvidia, has moved into the legal realm: the FBI has taken up the investigation, and shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company and Huang himself.
Nvidia shares fell almost 8% during the main trading session on November 9 - after they had already lost 3.4% in after-hours trading on reports of espionage suspicions and an independent investigation launched by the board of directors.
On Monday, November 9, the dollar was the weakest currency among the majors. DXY (the dollar index against a basket of currencies of the US's main trading partners) lost almost 0.4% and dipped to session lows below 102.00.
Alphabet (the holding company that owns Google) bought an additional 3.85 million SpaceX shares in the third quarter, bringing its stake to 555.04 million shares. At the November 5 closing price, that is about $68.6 billion - and that is noticeably less than the stake was worth in the summer.
Large players on the Hyperliquid exchange pushed the volume of short positions in Bitcoin futures to the highest level in the past 12 months. The data was provided by the analytics company Glassnode, published on November 8, 18:52 MSK.
The Capital Markets Alliance Association, which includes Cboe Global Markets, Citadel Securities and Healthy Markets Association, challenged in federal court the CFTC's November 3 decision on perpetual futures on individual US stocks. The judge has already noted that the plaintiffs are likely to prevail.
