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In the week to October 21, 2026, 45.8% of investors answering the AAII Sentiment Survey described themselves as bearish, well above the long-run average of

Alphabet’s Class A shares fell 12.6% on October 29, 2026, their worst day since the company listed in 2004, and about $482 billion of market

Bitcoin was priced at $80,036.60 on the morning of October 29, 2026, and at $77,380.93 a day later, a fall of 3.3% according to Fortune’s

The US jobs report for October is due at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, November 6, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three

Spot gold dipped below $3,900 an ounce on October 30, its lowest level of 2026 and about 30% under its January record, on course for

Brent crude’s expiring December contract settled at $117.64 a barrel on October 30, its highest level since April, a day after a tanker was struck

Brazil’s main stock index, the Ibovespa, fell 17.3% in the week after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential runoff on October 25. It

On Saturday, August 22, a 50% US tariff on a list of Canadian goods took effect after trade talks broke down, and the impact of

Three central banks announced decisions inside 24 hours at the end of October, a compact test of the market reaction to a central bank decision.

Investors in US brokerage accounts owed $1.48 trillion in margin debt at the end of September, according to FINRA, a little under June’s record of

The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.1% on Friday, October 16, and finished the week down 4.5%, ending a four-week winning streak. Each of those five sessions

Bitcoin’s 50-day moving average rose above its 200-day average on September 8, a golden cross, and six weeks later CoinDesk counted 19 golden crosses in