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Crypto.com, together with the OG.com exchange, has launched crypto perpetual futures for qualified US traders: 24/7 trading, long and short positions, up to 5x leverage, and oversight by the CFTC, the US futures market regulator.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META; the company is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) on October 21 reported revenue above forecast, but on the same day a court in New Mexico ordered it to pay $25 billion in a data privacy case. The shares reacted with a rise of about 2%, to $708.
On October 20 the calendar is packed from night until late evening: at 04:15 Moscow time China announces its benchmark LPR rate, at 12:00 the ZEW indices for Germany and the Eurozone are released, at 15:15 - weekly ADP employment data for the US, and at 23:05 Netflix reports. The movement will be stretched across the whole day rather than gathered into a single candle.
US spot exchange-traded funds (ETF - a fund through which an asset is bought like a regular stock on an exchange) lost $549 million over the past week. Outflows from Ethereum funds in October reached $955 million - the worst month of 2026.
On October 16, the U.S. Treasury publicly stated that Japan is no longer living in deflation, which means the yen exchange rate must reflect this. This is a repeated call for Tokyo to strengthen the JPY against the USD.
XAU/USD rose to $4,227 on Friday but failed to consolidate above $4,200 and pulled back to $4,138. That is about a 1% decline for the day, despite a weak US labor market report.
In August, the number of job openings in the US declined to 7.079 million versus the expected 7.225-7.230 million. At the same time, hires and layoffs remained nearly unchanged.
