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The pair recovered from a drop to a monthly low around 156.00 and returned almost to 158.00 in a V-shaped move - the third consecutive rising session. The dollar is being pulled up ahead of the Fed decision, which will be released today at 21:00 Moscow time.
Brent added $1.50 (1.32%) and returned to $115.59 per barrel, WTI rose $1.47 to $101.37. The trigger - a statement by Yemeni Houthis that they hit Ras Tanura, the kingdom's largest oil refinery at 550,000 barrels per day, with a ballistic missile. Riyadh has not confirmed the strike.
Today the Fed announces its rate decision at 21:00 MSK, and after the US session closes Microsoft and Alphabet report - the first two of the companies whose AI infrastructure spending drives Nvidia's revenue. Heading into the event, the Nasdaq Composite stood at 26,477.81 points.
AMD shares closed Tuesday, October 27 at $560.26 (+$28.98, +5.45%) - the best session in the entire current rally of the semiconductor sector. The reason is specific: the company announced that its Helios systems are installed and being tested at Meta, and it will invest $1 billion in Meta's share offering.
The Bank of Canada announces its rate decision midday, the Fed in the evening. USD/CAD is rising for a second day and has already bounced from 1.3970-1.3965, the low since September 16, climbing above 1.4000 - a new weekly high.
South Korea's second-largest exchange by trading volume, Bithumb, discovered on October 27 unauthorized access to a corporate system where employees communicate and exchange files. On the same day, Coinbase reported its own leak — but not because the exchange itself was hacked.
Today at 15:30 MSK UK Finance Minister John Healey presents his first annual budget, and at 21:00 MSK the Fed will announce its rate. GBP/USD is already at 1.3300 - the lowest since October 19.
Today at 21:00 MSK the Federal Reserve will announce its rate decision, the forecast is 4.00%, the same as last time. At 21:30 MSK the press conference of Fed Chair Warsh will begin, and it is precisely this that usually moves the market more than the number itself.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (the country's central bank) unexpectedly did not raise the key rate overnight on October 28, although almost everyone expected it to: the decision was made by a 4-3 vote. The New Zealand dollar moved lower in the first minutes after the publication.
By the morning of Wednesday, October 28, BTC had risen almost 2% and came right up to $81,000, recovering the weekend when the price dropped to $79,000. But the main move was not in it: altcoins from the top ten outperformed Bitcoin across the board.
Four new refusals have been added to the OKXICE project - a joint venture between the OKX crypto exchange and Intercontinental Exchange (the owner of the New York Stock Exchange). Now 26 issuers from the original list of 62 companies have spoken out against trading tokenized versions of their shares.
On Tuesday XAU/USD hit an intraday low of $3,989, reversed and gained more than 1%, rising to $4,061. The rally occurred despite a stronger dollar and rising US Treasury yields.
The euro is weakening against all major currencies due to the state of France's public finances and a sell-off in its bond market. The EUR/USD pair is trading around 1.1145 and is falling for a fifth session in a row - on the eve of back-to-back Fed and ECB decisions.
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index for October came in at 91.7 versus a forecast of 81.2 and the September reading of 81.9. The miss versus consensus is more than 10 points, one of the largest surprises for this indicator in recent times.
XAU/USD is fluctuating around $4,000 on Tuesday and has already dipped below it, despite easing US rate expectations. Trading is taking place near $4,012, slightly above last week's three-month low of $3,975.
Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, is set to become the first operator of perpetual futures on the Hyperliquid blockchain operating under the supervision of the US regulator CFTC. The announcement came out on October 26, 2026; no launch date was given.
U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (funds whose shares trade on an exchange and track the price of the asset) attracted about $110 million on Monday, October 26. This only offset part of the $773.5 million outflow over the previous two sessions, and for the month as a whole the funds are still losing money.
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Tuesday, October 27, that the government is ready for decisive action in the currency market. This is a direct hint at intervention - selling dollars from reserves to support the yen.
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, the regulator of national banks) has granted Ripple final approval to launch Ripple National Trust Bank. Now the $2.5 billion in RLUSD stablecoin reserves will be managed under federal oversight.
WTI crude (the U.S. benchmark grade, with futures traded on the NYMEX exchange) slipped on Monday from its peak level of $103.28 - a five-month high - to around $100.51. The market paused ahead of a week with three central bank meetings at once.
On Monday, October 26, the dollar strengthened against major currencies ahead of the Fed meeting on Wednesday. The yen is the weakest in the basket, the pound slipped from its recent peak of 1.3419 to levels below 1.3350.
Vivek Ramaswamy's American Strive increased its Bitcoin holdings by 16.8% in a week - to 43,000 BTC. The deal was closed with money from a $630 million preferred stock offering.
From October 28 to 30, four central banks issue rate decisions, and on the 29th US GDP and PCE come out at the same time. The market has already priced in rates staying unchanged, so it will be the wording, not the numbers themselves, that moves the instruments.
