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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.
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.
On Friday, the USD/CAD pair fell below the psychological level of 1.4000 and traded around 1.3975 - a one-month low. This is the seventh consecutive losing session for the US dollar against the Canadian dollar, and the second week of decline in a row.
On October 23, Brent crude passed two round marks in a matter of minutes: at 16:49 Moscow time the price went above $115, and already at 16:58 Moscow time - above $116. The reason - a sharp escalation of rhetoric around Iran.
GMO Internet's cloud hosting, where traders keep MetaTrader terminals and trading robots, was hacked. Broker OANDA Securities Japan postponed client payouts on October 22 to check applications for fraudulent transfers.
Yemen's Houthi movement said on October 22 that it had struck King Fahd Airport in Dammam, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense building and another Saudi Aramco facility. Following this, Saudi Aramco (the world's largest oil company and Saudi Arabia's state company) ordered the evacuation of personnel from its headquarters in Dhahran and their transfer to remote work.
On October 19, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds through which Bitcoin is bought like an ordinary stock on an exchange) collected $526.7 million in net inflow. This is the largest daily result since September 22, when $714.7 million flowed into the funds.
Payment system Visa has agreed on a partnership with crypto platform Mesh: payments can be made with cryptocurrencies and stablecoins at more than 175 million locations worldwide - without a separate card and without prior conversion.
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.
Trump suspended key sanctions and tariffs against Russia and announced a diesel deal. Oil headed lower in the Asian session on Monday, breaking a seven-day streak of gains.
On October 16, the calendar has four reasons for movement at once: inflation in the European Union, US industrial statistics, the fifth day of the annual IMF and World Bank meeting with central bank heads participating, and a morning speech by Fed Chair Warsh.
On October 15 at 15:30 Moscow time, the US released the producer price index for September (PPI - the prices at which factories and suppliers sell goods, that is, inflation at the input to the economy). The monthly increase was +1.3%: more than double expectations and triple August's +0.4%.
The minutes of the September FOMC meeting showed that most participants consider another rate hike by the end of 2026 appropriate. At the same time, the market reaction was limited, as such a scenario had already been priced into the Fed's September projections.
US crude WTI (the US benchmark grade) is trading around $93.05 in early Asian hours on Monday. The push came from US President Donald Trump's rejection of Iran's proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz - a key maritime route for oil exports from the Persian Gulf.
Access to the US stock market is now open via a separate trading terminal. This is now a permanent feature of the platform
Now in a separate Hash Hedge terminal, more than 11,000 US stocks are available. You can track quotes, analyze the market, and find ideas among the largest companies, technology giants, dividend stocks, and less obvious shares.
All 500 US stock challenges were claimed within two days, giving traders access to over 11,000 US securities.
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We are relaunching our line of challenges. Starting August 1, Hash Hedge is switching to an updated trader selection model: instead of three stages, there are now two, and the starting capital in each plan doubles. The maximum account is now $400,000, and you can reach it without intermediate upgrades.
