JUST IN: Bitcoin tops a $2.5 trillion market cap.

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📊 Crypto Fear and Greed Index — quick read

🧭 Index Value: 71
😱 Sentiment: Greed
💰 BTC Price: $123,478

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Live update: Gold climbs to a fresh all-time high at $3,900 per ounce.

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💥 The Moscow Exchange index (IMOEX) is up roughly 0.3% in early trading, extending yesterday’s gains.

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🌕 A notable shift in commodities: gold futures push above $3,950 to an all‑time high, while silver futures climb past $48, signaling a fresh 14‑year peak.

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💥🇺🇸 Boeing is stepping up 737 Max production, with output set to begin in October, Bloomberg reports. For the full story, read the story.

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⚠️🛢 The backwardation in oil futures is narrowing, signaling that traders still expect further declines, even as OPEC+ maintains that the market is robust, according to BBG.

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⚠️ DeFiLlama has temporarily halted its data feeds for Aster’s perpetual futures amid concerns that the exchange’s trading volumes are being artificially inflated.

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🇯🇵 The Japanese yen dropped around 1.8%.

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📰 Apple enters a leadership shake-up as Bloomberg reports Tim Cook may be stepping down.

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⚠️ Russia's crowdfunding scene slid back into a downturn in August after a brief rebound. Tighter Central Bank rules are forcing platforms to tighten their scoring models. Analysts expect the market to consolidate under growing regulatory pressure, even as major new players push into the space. — Kommersant

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⚠️🇷🇺 The Bondholders' Association is urging a stop to any new bond issues by the issuer Elektrorazreshenija, citing the risk of default on its existing debt obligations. More details can be found in the article.

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✴️🇺🇸 Morgan has started actively advising clients to add cryptocurrency to their portfolios.

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💰 The U.S. national debt is climbing by roughly $6 billion every day, edging toward a new record near $38 trillion. More people are turning to Bitcoin as a viable alternative to the dollar, as reported by Cointelegraph. Meanwhile, Bitcoin has soared to an all-time high, and analysts say the dollar is on track for its worst year since 1973.

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A fresh briefing estimates around $6 billion for cross-border payments routed through Russia’s sanctioned crypto network.

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🇷🇺 Russian coking coal prices edged higher in the final week of September, despite tepid demand from Chinese buyers. The uptick was buoyed by demand from India — Kommersant.

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🇷🇺 Authorities could pull back from a sharp hike in the eco-collection for packaging producers — Kommersant.

Packaging manufacturers could sidestep the sizable eco-collection rate increase proposed by the Ministry of Natural Resources, set to take effect in 2026. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev opposed the move after a meeting.

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🍫 Cocoa bean prices have fallen to their lowest level since March 2024, and the decline has accelerated sharply since the start of October.

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Moscow's new housing project launches have tumbled to a 12-year low, per Vedomosti. Meanwhile, prices for new buildings in the city have surged 17.1% over the past year, per TASS.

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⚠️ Former President Trump vowed to drop political correctness, arguing it had cost the U.S. in wars. "We stopped fighting to win. We could have easily won any war, but we were politically correct. Now we're not," he said. This year, the Department of Defense was renamed the Ministry of War, and War Minister Hegset stressed that the Pentagon's new mission would be strictly about combat operations.

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🚫🇷🇺 NanduQ has said it will voluntarily delist its ADRs from the Moscow Exchange.

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