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Today ADP Research Institute publishes its report on private sector employment in the US for October. The consensus is +69 thousand jobs after +90 thousand in September. This is the first labor market figure this week, followed by NFP on Friday.
Reuters reports: NVIDIA's customers in China will receive about 1% of the ordered RTX-series graphics chips, while the total order volume is estimated at $70 billion. In monetary terms, that is roughly $700 million in shipments against seventy billion in demand.
XAG/USD falls for the second day in a row and trades around $49.20 per troy ounce on Wednesday morning. On November 3, the metal dropped to $48.62 - a yearly low, while gold holds near $3,930.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, Iran's elite armed forces) stated on November 4 that four oil tankers were destroyed after hitting naval mines while passing along a route Iran calls prohibited. Two more vessels, according to the same account, were detained.
On the morning of November 4, futures on the American S&P 500 index turned negative: the market is pricing in the outcome of the US vote. The move began even before the main exchange session opened.
On November 3, Arab TV channels reported progress on the Iranian dossier: Washington approved a draft memorandum of understanding with Tehran, and the parties are discussing how to announce a temporary agreement. For oil, this is the most sensitive geopolitical topic of the year.
US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (funds through which the asset is bought like an ordinary stock on an exchange) are losing money for the second day in a row, and nearly five billion dollars have left Binance since it resumed operations. BTC, meanwhile, is holding around $76,900.
Tether CEO (the company issuing the largest stablecoin USDT - a coin with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar) Paolo Ardoino cited a figure of 150,000 BTC, worth roughly $11.5 billion. The company's quarterly report lists about 100,000 BTC, and he did not specify where the difference came from.
On US congressional voting day, US index futures diverged: Dow Jones -0.5%, S&P 500 -0.15%, Nasdaq 100 flat. The market holds positions ahead of the first vote count results.
Investors reduced their checks in the largest private round in history: instead of $30B, OpenAI expects to raise $20B, and the company's target valuation was lowered from $1.4T to $1.25T. Caution about artificial intelligence has moved from the exchange to the private market.
On the morning of November 3, BTC fell below $77,000, while Asian exchanges opened down 3-4% due to chipmaker stocks. Over two sessions, $1.04 billion was withdrawn from US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (funds through which the asset is bought like a stock).
On Monday, Brent (the benchmark crude oil grade used to price oil in Europe and Asia) plunged 7.63% to $104.77 per barrel on signals of US-Iran talks. On Tuesday, quotes recovered about 1.1% after a report of a US strike on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.
Third-quarter results are due after the US session close, with the management call at 01:00 MSK. The stock headed into the report already battered: on Monday it closed at $466.84, down 7.52% and near the day's low.
On the morning of November 3, at 08:02 MSK, Apple (AAPL) and Palantir (PLTR) shares were each down 3% - a reaction to the earnings reports released.
Revenue for the September quarter was $114.5 billion (+12% year over year), earnings of $2.10 per share, both figures above consensus. After the close, the stock fell about 1%, to $335.
On November 2, reports emerged that Meta (the company is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation, and its activities are banned) is again preparing a bond offering to finance capital expenditures on artificial intelligence. The parameters of the issue - amount, term, yield - have not yet been disclosed.
Oracle (an American software giant, one of the heavyweight stocks in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100) filed documents to offer new shares and bonds worth $20 billion - the money will go toward building AI infrastructure. The stock responded with a drop of about 5%.
After a $6.3 billion hack - the largest in crypto history - Binance transferred 7,499 BTC from its SAFU insurance fund. The fund's Bitcoin reserves have roughly halved: from ~15,000 BTC to ~7,500 BTC (about $583 million), and the exchange has not given a timeline for replenishing it.
Chipmaker Marvell Technology (ticker MRVL) has agreed to buy Lumentum (ticker LITE), a manufacturer of optical components for data centers. The deal is worth $115 billion and is settled in stock rather than cash.
According to calculations by the analytics platform CryptoQuant, as of November 1, the average purchase price of coins that last moved on the blockchain 1-3 months ago was $77,140. The BTC price at that moment was $77,880 - less than 1% above the breakeven point of recent buyers.
On Monday, November 2, silver (XAG/USD) is trading at $50.38 per troy ounce versus $49.13 on Friday. At the same time, gold is holding below $3,900 - at its lowest since October 2025.
On Friday, October 30, the Nasdaq Composite (the index of American technology stocks) closed at 25,437.00, down 747.73 points, or 2.86%. This is the index's worst day since June 5, and it lost more than 5% over the course of October.
The OPEC+ alliance (an association of oil-exporting countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia that regulates production volumes and thereby influences world prices) decided on November 1 not to change production quotas for December. The next meeting is on November 29.
Intel shares closed Friday, October 30 at $65.76 versus $92.07 the day before. Over October the stock slid from $120.23 and lost 45.3% - its worst month in more than four decades.
