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Bitcoin fell to $72,934 on Coinbase and Kraken: there prices went below $73,000 for the first time in ten weeks. The trigger was the US consumer price report for October - it came in above forecast, and the market increased its bet on a Fed rate hike in December.
US consumer prices rose 0.4% month-over-month in October versus the expected 0.23-0.3%. Immediately after the release at 16:30 MSK, exchanges forcibly closed roughly $200 million in long positions in crypto; Bitcoin and gold moved lower.
On Tuesday, gold gave back almost all of the previous day's gains - traders took profits, and a Fed official's comments about a possible rate hike in December added pressure.
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.
Fed Governor Christopher Waller said on Tuesday, November 10, during the European session: if US core inflation for October comes in around 0.3% month-over-month or higher, December will require a rate hike of a full half percentage point. The October CPI report itself is released the same day.
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.
Binance's French division did not obtain authorization under MiCA (the EU's common crypto law) and announced the closure of client accounts on December 31, 2026. This concerns one of the world's largest crypto exchanges and one of Europe's largest markets.
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, the local financial market regulator) announced on November 5 that the Bitget website, related domains and mobile application will be blocked in the country starting December 5. At the same time, a criminal complaint has been filed against the exchange operator, BG Limited, for operating without a license.
Statistics Canada reported for August: the economy did not grow at all, and the preliminary estimate for September is already minus 0.1%. For the market, this is an argument in favor of a softer Bank of Canada policy and a reason to reassess the Canadian dollar.
Intel shares (the largest American processor manufacturer) fell 23.56% to $70.39 in Friday's overnight trading - that's minus $21.69 from Thursday's close of $92.07. The market punished the company not for the past quarter, but for its guidance for the coming ones.
The UK regulator FCA has obtained court undertakings from the HTX exchange (formerly Huobi): the company will not knowingly advertise crypto services to Britons in circumvention of the law. For users from the United Kingdom, the exchange is effectively closed.
On October 20, 2026, the MEXC crypto exchange announced that it is ceasing to serve users from Russia and Belarus. There is no single shutdown date: each client will receive their deadlines individually.
