🔴 U.S. ECONOMIC CALENDAR (UTC)
WEEK 02 – OCTOBER 2026

🗓 This week’s U.S. economic calendar is lighter than last week, but several important releases could still influence Fed rate expectations, especially ISM Services PMI, the FOMC Minutes, and consumer inflation expectations.

👉 Key times to watch:
🟣 14:00, Monday Oct. 5: ISM Services PMI
🔥 18:00, Wednesday Oct. 7: September FOMC Meeting Minutes
🟣 12:30, Thursday Oct. 8: Initial Jobless Claims
🟣 14:00, Friday Oct. 9: Preliminary Michigan Consumer Sentiment + Inflation Expectations

🖤 The biggest focus this week is the FOMC Minutes. Markets will look for clues about the level of agreement within the Fed following the September rate hike and the possibility of another rate increase at the late-October meeting. These releases could have a major impact on the U.S. dollar, gold, U.S. stocks, Bitcoin, and Treasury yields.

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🔥 GOLD HOLDS ABOVE $4,150 — MARKETS SHARPLY SCALE BACK EXPECTATIONS OF A FED RATE HIKE

💰 Gold started the week with a rebound to around $4,160/oz, after much weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data prompted markets to reduce bets on another Fed rate hike in October.

📌 SEPTEMBER NFP DISAPPOINTS

🖤 The U.S. added just 29,000 jobs
🖤 Far below forecasts of around 90,000
🖤 August’s figure was revised down to 133,000 jobs
🖤 The unemployment rate rose to 4.2%
🖤 Annual wage growth slowed to around 3.0%

📈 Markets now lean more strongly toward the Fed holding rates steady at its October meeting, rather than delivering another hike.

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🤑 OKX TEAMS UP WITH NYSE’S PARENT COMPANY — PAVING THE WAY FOR U.S. STOCKS ON BLOCKCHAIN

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🔴 Most recently, OKXICE filed with the SEC seeking approval to launch a platform for trading tokenized U.S. stocks in the United States.

🖤The initial phase is expected to support shares of 63 NYSE-listed companies
🖤 Shares will be represented on blockchain as tokens
🖤 The platform aims to enable trading of traditional assets through on-chain infrastructure
🖤 Issuers have 30 days to opt out before trading can begin

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🇷🇺 RUSSIA PAYS EMPLOYEES IN DIGITAL RUBLES FOR THE FIRST TIME

🗓 Russia’s Finance Ministry said that, starting October 1, 2026, some of its employees have officially received their salaries in digital rubles — marking the first use of the new currency for salary payments within the ministry.

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MIDDLE EAST OIL EXPORTS SURPASS PRE-WAR LEVELS, BUT SHIPS REMAIN UNDER ATTACK

🛢 Crude oil exports from the Middle East exceeded pre-war levels on four of the final seven days of September, despite a series of attacks on ships near the Strait of Hormuz.

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🖤 Oil exports reached around 19.5–22.5 million barrels per day on September 24 and 27–29
🖤 Above the pre-war average of roughly 18 million barrels per day, before the U.S.–Israeli conflict with Iran began
🖤 The seven-day average through October 1 reached approximately 18.5 million barrels per day
🖤 Including crude oil, refined products, chemicals and other non-gaseous liquids, shipments totaled around 22.4 million barrels per day

➡️ Beyond oil, the number of LNG carriers passing through Hormuz in September also rose to its highest level since February.

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🔥🔥🔥 U.S. ECONOMY IN A BIND: THE JOB MARKET IS WEAKENING, BUT INFLATION REMAINS STUBBORN

🇺🇸 The U.S. economy is sending two conflicting signals: the labor market is starting to lose momentum, while inflationary pressures remain high enough to make it difficult for the Fed to shift toward monetary easing.

🖤 June Nonfarm Payrolls rose by just 57,000 jobs
🖤 Significantly below market expectations
🖤 April and May figures were also revised down by a combined 74,000 jobs
🖤 The unemployment rate edged down to 4.2%, but labor force participation also fell to 61.5%

💰 Average hourly earnings still rose by around 3.5% year over year, suggesting that wage pressures have not disappeared entirely.

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👨‍💻 BINANCE BRAZIL REQUIRES DISCLOSURES FOR CROSS-BORDER CRYPTO TRANSFERS FROM NOVEMBER 1

🇧🇷 Starting November 1, 2026, Binance users in Brazil who deposit or withdraw crypto involving parties outside Brazil must provide additional transaction information under new rules from the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB).

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🟣 Corporate accounts must also disclose whether the counterparty belongs to the same corporate group.
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🟣 Transfers between parties residing in Brazil are unaffected.

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🔥🔥🔥 OIL DROPS MORE THAN 2% — SAUDI BACKS CAMPAIGN TO RECLAIM RED SEA OIL ROUTE

🛢 WTI crude fell more than 2% to around $88.35 per barrel as markets assessed the possibility that oil shipping through the Red Sea – Bab el-Mandeb route could gradually be restored.
🇸🇦 Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces are launching a major campaign to push the Houthis out of strategic areas along the Red Sea after the group expanded its control around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

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🟣 Saudi Arabia is supporting the campaign with airstrikes and logistics
🟣 The objective is to break Houthi control over the strategic shipping route
🟣 If the route stabilizes, Saudi Arabia would gain another option for exporting oil through the Red Sea, reducing dependence on Hormuz

🔴 On one side, the conflict is escalating — on the other, there is a possibility that the Red Sea oil route could reopen. For now, markets are reacting more strongly to expectations of improving supply.

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🔥🔥🔥 STRATEGY KEEPS STEADILY ACCUMULATING BTC — WHILE BITMINE IS CLOSING IN ON OWNING 5% OF ETH’S TOTAL SUPPLY.

🔴 The two crypto treasury companies continued buying over the past week.

💰 Strategy (MSTR)
🖤 Bought another 334 BTC, worth around $28.7 million
🖤 Average purchase price: $85,838.8 per BTC (Sep. 28–Oct. 4)
🖤 Total holdings increased to 848,000 BTC, more than 4% of Bitcoin’s 21 million maximum supply
🖤 Average cost basis across the entire portfolio is around $75,441
🔷 BitMine
🖤 Bought another 15,112 ETH (around $41 million)
🖤 Total holdings reached 6,016,414 ETH, around 4.9% of the supply
🖤 Its “Alchemy of 5%” target is now roughly 89,000 ETH away

Corporate whales are still steadily accumulating, although both companies bought less than in previous weeks.

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🇺🇸 U.S. TREASURY WITHDRAWS 2 PROPOSALS TARGETING SELF-CUSTODY WALLETS AND CRYPTO MIXERS

🏙 FinCEN, part of the U.S. Treasury Department, has officially withdrawn two controversial crypto surveillance proposals that had faced years of criticism. The notice was filed on Oct. 5 and published in the Federal Register on Oct. 6.
📌 The two withdrawn proposals:
1⃣ Self-custody wallets (2020): Banks and exchanges would have been required to report transactions involving unhosted wallets above $10,000, and keep records for transactions above $3,000.
2⃣ Crypto mixers (2023): International coin-mixing transactions would have been designated as a “primary money laundering concern,” requiring financial institutions to report wallet addresses, transaction hashes, and IP addresses.

👉 Why they were withdrawn:
🟣 The definition of a mixer was considered too broad and could have chilled legitimate activity.
🟣 The decision also cited the White House digital asset report from July 2025.

FinCEN says it will continue monitoring mixers and may introduce new rules in the future. Existing anti-money laundering requirements remain in place.

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🔥 CFTC SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON FRAMEWORK FOR MARGIN AND LEVERAGED CRYPTO TRADING

🇺🇸 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has opened a public consultation on a federal framework for platforms offering crypto to retail investors through margin, leverage, or financing.
🟢 Two frameworks have been proposed:
🖤 Regulation CTX: defines retail crypto transactions involving leverage.
🖤 Regulation CAM: creates a new exchange license category, a “crypto asset market,” allowing platforms to register at the federal level.

The federal door for crypto exchanges is opening — and leverage is the trigger.

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🐳 AROUND 70% OF WEALTHY INVESTORS IN THE U.S. AND SEVERAL EUROPEAN MARKETS NOW HOLD CRYPTO

🔈 CoinShares surveyed 2,230 investors with at least $500,000 in investable assets, excluding real estate, across the U.S. and six European markets.
➡️ Share currently holding crypto:
🖤 U.S., U.K., Germany: around 70%
🖤 Switzerland: 69%
🖤 France: 66%
🖤 Italy: 58%
🖤 Sweden: 54%

💰 Crypto has already entered wealthy investors’ portfolios. The remaining gap is advisory: many clients want exposure, but wealth advisers remain cautious.

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TRUMP EASES DIESEL RULES: ALLOWS “RED DIESEL” ON PUBLIC ROADS TO CUT COSTS

👍 President Trump signed an executive order on Oct. 5, temporarily allowing dyed red diesel — normally reserved for farm machinery and off-road vehicles — to be used on public roads in an effort to lower diesel costs.

📌 Key details:
🟡 Effective from Oct. 5 through Dec. 31, 2026
🟡 The IRS will not penalize the sale or use of red diesel on highways during this period
🟡 Federal excise tax on red diesel used on public roads will be deferred, with no interest or penalties
🟡 The White House estimates truck drivers could save more than $100 per fill-up
🟡 The Agriculture Department must ensure farmers continue to have access to red diesel in high-demand areas

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🔥🔥🔥 U.S. TREASURY YIELDS SURGE TO 24-YEAR HIGHS — INFLATION FEARS RETURN

❗️ U.S. Treasury yields continued to climb at the start of the week, even after weak jobs data sharply reduced expectations for an October Fed rate hike.

👉 Yield levels:
🖤 The 10-year yield rose to around 5.31–5.34%, its highest level since 2002
🖤 The 30-year yield reached around 5.70%, also a 24-year high
🖤 The 2-year yield rose only slightly, hovering around 4.84%

📈 Markets are separating two issues: the Fed may not raise rates in October, but long-term yields are still being pushed higher by inflation concerns and heavy Treasury supply.

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💰 BITCOIN BREAKS BELOW $83,000: OVER $400 MILLION IN LONG POSITIONS LIQUIDATED IN ONE HOUR

🟢 Bitcoin dropped toward $83,000 during a sharp sell-off. In roughly one hour, total liquidations across the market exceeded $400 million, with 97% coming from long positions.

📉 This is a leverage flush, not confirmation of a bottom. Watch whether Bitcoin can hold the $83,000 level or faces further downside.

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📈 OKB SURGES NEARLY 10% AFTER OKX RECEIVES INVESTMENT FROM CIRCLE, RIPPLE AND STANDARD CHARTERED

🤑 OKX’s exchange token jumped nearly 10% after news that OKX raised additional funding at a $25 billion valuation, unchanged from its March round.
👉 Who invested:
🟡 Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures.
🟡 London-based quantitative investment firm Qube Research & Technologies.
🟡 This round follows an investment of around $200 million in March from ICE, the owner of the NYSE, at the same valuation.

The valuation has not increased, but the investor lineup includes players in stablecoins, banking and U.S. stock exchanges. That is what drove buying interest in OKB.

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🔥 RUSSIA OPENS OVER 220,000 DIGITAL RUBLE ACCOUNTS IN THE FIRST MONTH, NEARLY FOUR TIMES THE FORECAST

🏦 The Bank of Russia said citizens opened more than 220,000 digital ruble accounts in the first month following the September 1 launch. It had previously forecast only around 60,000 accounts for the entire year.
🟣 The first month’s total was nearly four times the full-year forecast.
🟣 Access is currently limited to Russian citizens aged 18 and over through selected major banks.
🟣 All banks with a full banking license are expected to connect next year.
🟣 A service for registering account-linked payments will launch in November.
⭐ Since October 1, the Finance Ministry has paid some employees in digital rubles on a voluntary basis.

🇷🇺 Russia is pushing ahead with its CBDC after being cut off from parts of the Western payments system. Commercial banks remain opposed, arguing that existing digital payment services are already sufficient.

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