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Meta publishes its third-quarter report today, October 21. The market is looking not so much at profit as at capital expenditures (money for data centers, servers and AI chips): the company's annual guidance is $130-145 billion, and sentiment across the entire technology sector depends on it.
In 24 hours, BTC gained about 2.4% and rose to $83,500 - a weekly high. The rebound follows last week's decline, when crypto tumbled along with Nasdaq on a hot US inflation report.
XAU/USD touched a fresh weekly low: on Tuesday gold closed at $4,122 (-0.43%), and in the Asian session on Wednesday it traded around $4,115 (-0.2%). This is the fourth consecutive day of decline, all because the market expects the Fed to raise rates rather than cut them.
Gold slipped to $4,135 per ounce - the third declining session in a row. Two factors are weighing: the yield on 10-year US Treasuries has returned above 5.1%, and oil has risen almost 15% in two weeks.
On Tuesday and Wednesday after the US market close, quarterly reports from Tesla, Meta, Netflix and SpaceX are released. Nasdaq values just the first three at a combined $3.6 trillion - the reaction in their shares drags the entire tech sector along with it.
The KBW Bank Index (a stock market indicator made up of shares of the largest US banks - it is used to judge whether investors believe in the financial sector) has been declining for the sixth week in a row and has lost 11% in a month and a half. There has not been such a long streak since the 2008 crisis.
MSCI (the largest provider of stock indices used by funds managing trillions of dollars) approved a rule on October 15: companies whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset will lose their place in the MSCI Global Investable Market indices starting November 30, 2026. Bitcoin holders Strategy and Metaplanet are affected
On Friday, October 16, the US stock market closed lower: Nasdaq lost 2.3%, S&P 500 - 1.2%. For the week, the Nasdaq 100 posted its steepest decline since April 2025.
On October 16, silver (XAG/USD) closed the day down 0.77% at $56.86 per ounce. From $60.45 on October 12, the metal has lost $3.59, that is, about 6% in a week.
Index provider MSCI has adopted a new methodology for selecting companies: businesses that are essentially a cryptocurrency vault rather than an operating company will undergo a separate review. Strategy (MSTR) is under threat - the largest public holder of Bitcoin in the world.
