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The US central bank, which sets monetary policy, regulates banks, and influences interest rates and money supply via its Federal Open Market Committee.
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Kevin Hassett wants Jerome Powell off the Fed board, a move that would let Trump nominate someone to one of the FOMC's 12 votes. Powell voted for the September hike Hassett says he disagreed with, so the seat is worth one dissent until other voters move.
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Bitcoin sat at $85,276 on Sunday, below the $86,000 area it hit before payrolls, even as Glassnode put October Fed hike odds at 22% from 66%. This week's fund-flow data will show whether ETF buyers are taking over from the short covering that lifted it.
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US employers added 29,000 jobs in September while the Bureau of Labor Statistics cut 60,000 from its July and August counts. With layoffs still falling, the data describe a hiring freeze that argues for slowing headcount plans and holding cuts in reserve.
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Bitcoin came within $650 of its $87,177 Friday high on Sunday while weekly US spot ETF inflows fell to about $83 million from $2.39 billion. October's seasonal record now has to carry a rally that fund money is backing at a fraction of September's pace.
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Bitcoin briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September against about 90,000 expected. Traders added roughly $2.3 billion of futures positions during the climb, so more leverage now rides on the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
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US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.34% on 1 October, their highest in 24 years, while oil traded back above $100 a barrel. Rates and oil both reversed within days, so teams planning Q4 headcount, infrastructure or fundraising should budget both as ranges.
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Nvidia raised its buyback authority to $235 billion days before its market value hit a record $5.7 trillion, enough to retire about 4% of its shares. Of all the claims on its cash, the repurchase is the one Nvidia can leave unspent.
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Morgan Stanley estimates hedge funds' Treasury cash-futures basis trade has fallen 20% this year to about $1.2 trillion. Funds on rolling repo can shrink by letting positions lapse or by being made to sell, and the position figure looks the same either way.
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US net interest payments rose $111 billion this year to roughly $1.08 trillion, on figures a former Senate budget staffer published in Fortune. With debt adding $1 trillion every five months, the bill compounds whether the 5.04% yield reflects oil and inflation or fiscal risk.
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Cathie Wood cites 99.99% annual falls in AI inference costs against Bill Ackman's warning that the Fed's September hike won't slow AI spending. Her figures price AI's output and his worry is demand for its inputs, so both can hold at once.
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Ten-year Treasury yields closed the week at 5.28% after buyers who drove them down to 5.15% on Friday's jobs headlines gave the move back by afternoon. One afternoon's reversal is thin evidence that yields above 5% will hold, though the October 2023 spike never got that reaction.
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September payrolls of 29,000, against an 84,000 consensus, lifted the Nasdaq 1.2% on Friday and turned a losing week into a 0.45% gain. Every major index was down through Thursday, so the AI-led advance depends on the Fed staying on hold.
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Fed policymakers raised rates 12-0 to 3.75%-4% on Sept. 16, and 16 of 18 projected at least one more quarter-point hike this year. Long yields have since risen more than the hike itself, so borrowers have more reason to plan around that projection than around President Trump's complaint.
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Buyers pulled the 10-year Treasury yield from a 24-year high of 5.34% to a 5.233% close on Thursday, after its biggest quarterly rise since 1994. Part of that demand was a flight to safety, and part was a bet that the Fed holds off on further hikes.
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The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell 6.7 points to 81.9 in September, its lowest in 12 years. Jobs data out the same day held steady. The drop traces to fuel and prices, and those are what a spending forecast built on labour figures alone misses.
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Bitcoin rose to $86,757 after August core PCE came in at 3.0% against 3.3% expected and October hold odds jumped to 74% from 35.8%. The year's sub-$1 billion ETF total understates the buying, because a strong third quarter first had to cover first-half redemptions.
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US 10-year Treasury yields briefly hit 5.34% on Thursday, the highest since 2002, while traders priced only a modest chance of a Fed hike this month. Companies and governments rolling over debt are refinancing at the long-end price whatever the Fed decides.
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US payrolls grew by 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast, cutting market odds of an October Fed hike to 15% from about 25%. A December hike is still fully priced, so traders moved the date of the next rise and kept the rise itself.
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Americans' confidence fell 6.7 points to 81.9 in September on the Conference Board index, with more calling present business conditions bad than good. Two years of worry about the outlook now extend to how households grade today's economy and their own finances.
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US payrolls rose 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast and revisions turned July negative, all but ruling out an October Fed hike. Economists cited by Reuters still call inflation the Fed's main input, so Q4 plans can drop the hike case and hold rates flat.
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