Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan wrote in his Oct. 14 memo that nearly every macro path ends with Bitcoin higher. A BIS paper from two days earlier models a fourth path, in which CryptoSlate's worked example has output up 10% and the consumer market down 1%.
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Warsh calls AI spending a demand shock as markets price another Fed rise in December
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh says AI spending is hitting demand before supply, and the Fed and ECB both raised rates in September. Central bankers at the Bangkok IMF meetings tie the boom to a higher cost of money and to tighter budgets for governments that borrowed when rates hovered near zero.
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Advisors in Financial Planning's survey score their own firms 85 points above the global economic system
Financial Planning's survey of 213 advisors puts confidence at minus-2 in October, down from plus-4 in July. Economic and policy outlooks fell while the score for advisors' own practices rose 9 points to plus-35.
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New York Fed President John Williams still backs one more rate hike this year, he told Bloomberg on Tuesday. Cointelegraph reported that he sees AI hardware supply taking over two years to catch up with demand, with rates unlikely to slow AI investment.
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Economists expect Wednesday's September CPI to show a 0.6% monthly rise as Iran-war energy costs push Brent to about $105. RSM warns forecasts may undershoot, and the Fed's October hike depends on the core reading.
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Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song said on Oct 13 that policy stays restrictive until inflation is confidently converging on the 2% target. That makes easing a distant prospect for Korean borrowers and for investors in Korean assets.
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Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation. The link to central-bank rate signaling comes from Seoul Economic Daily's account of Woodford's work.
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Nobel winner Woodford points to forward guidance, the practice Fed Chair Warsh scrapped
Michael Woodford, 71, a joint Nobel economics winner, named forward guidance first as his research in use, a practice Fed Chair Kevin Warsh scrapped. The Fed is now scaling back advance signaling on its rate path, en.sedaily.com reported, so markets have less to read.
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Odds of a quarter-point September hike jumped to 57% from 40% after the new Fed chairman called the labor market strong, which means a consensus 55,000 payroll gain now argues for tighter money rather than easier policy.
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Split reasons behind the Fed's hike to 3.75%-4% raise the bar for skipping the next one
Federal Reserve minutes released Oct. 7 show officials backed September's unanimous hike to 3.75%-4% for two different reasons. Because each camp needs different evidence, one soft inflation report probably won't stop another hike, CryptoSlate argues.
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S&P 500's four-year bull market leans on ten companies that make up 40% of the index
S&P 500's bull market turns four on October 12 with a 117% gain, the sixth-best since World War Two. Its next leg depends on whether a few AI-heavy companies, now a far larger share of the index, can show their data-center spending pays.
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Fed minutes list AI debt issuance among the forces pushing long Treasury yields higher
Federal Reserve minutes from September record market contacts blaming heavy AI infrastructure borrowing for part of a 35-basis-point rise in Treasury yields. Crypto buyers counting on a Fed pause may find the relief stops short of a 10-year Treasury paying 5.28%.
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US stock futures slid from record highs on Wednesday and Thursday as oil rose and the 10-year Treasury yield sat between 5.28% and 5.33%. With FactSet expecting 29.5% third-quarter earnings growth, how far the rally runs now depends on whether oil keeps pushing bond yields up.
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BIS paper warns AI data centres' power demand could blur central banks' inflation readings
BIS Paper No. 174 argues data-centre power demand could blur the capacity-use and inflation readings central banks set interest rates by. A central bank that mistakes a data-centre power bill for overheating could tighten when the economy does not need it.
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Fed Governor Waller signals more rate hikes with room to space them out
Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he expects more rate hikes to bring inflation back to 2%, though they need not come at consecutive meetings. For anyone borrowing at short-term rates, the open question is now timing, and the Oct. 27-28 FOMC meeting is the first chance to act.
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Federal Reserve minutes show most officials see room for one more rate increase this year after September's unanimous quarter-point hike to 3.75%-4%. Many officials called it insurance against persistent inflation and committed to no set path.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged governments to stop delaying debt cuts and raise borrowing costs as needed before 191 members meet in Bangkok. Her prescription points companies toward higher rates, while her call to regulate AI stayed at the level of principle.
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Bitwise's Matt Hougan says the Senate's 49-50 cloture failure will not end the crypto rally, and points to a summer in which prices rose as the odds of passage halved. Only Congress can give the CFTC spot authority.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI could add up to half a point a year to world growth, with investment set to match or exceed the railroads' share of GDP. The same boom lifts inflation and competes with governments for bond money, so economies outside the AI supply chain risk the higher rates without the growth.
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India's central bank raised its repo rate 25 basis points to 5.50%, its first increase since February 2023. Governor Sanjay Malhotra expects inflation near 5.8%, so the real policy rate is still negative and the open question for bond and rupee holders is how far the cycle runs.
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Earlier coverage
- ISM's services prices index climbs to 74.0, its highest since July 2022
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- BoJ's Uchida warns AI-driven easing of financial conditions could reverse if profits lag
Invest · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Fed's Lisa Cook ranks AI's mostly unspent $2 trillion buildout among her top 2027 inflation risks
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Ten-year Treasury yield climbs to 5.30%, its highest since 2002, despite cooler inflation
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- RBA hikes for the fourth time this year to 4.60% despite a housing downturn
Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Retail's real signal this week is the gap between big-ticket and off-price
Invest · August 18, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Howard Marks backs Warsh's less activist Fed approach
Invest · September 20, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Bessent tells AI developers to carry their own legal risk
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers