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Central banks and rates · markets and earnings · deals and restructurings · banking and credit
A 25bp Fed hike to 3.75%-4.00% has driven the 10-year Treasury to an 18-year high near 5.11%-5.15%, pushing 30-year mortgage rates above 7% for the first time since January 2025 and directly compressing homebuilder margins and housing transaction volume.
A six-year-high Bitcoin-gold correlation (~0.86, per Bitwise/Grayscale research, early September 2026) against a collapsing Bitcoin-Nasdaq correlation (~0.18-0.30) signals crypto is repricing as a macro hedge just as gold itself pulls back nearly 9% in a month on higher-for-longer Fed rate expectations.
Crude's five-day slide has stalled, not reversed, leaving oil markets exposed to a two-sided catalyst set — Saudi supply restoration versus unconfirmed Iran diplomacy versus a domestic diesel export ban that could reverse refiner margin gains overnight.