{"id":103973,"date":"2025-10-11T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=103973"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:08:09","slug":"morning-market-update-9-october-2025-%e2%98%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=103973","title":{"rendered":"Morning Market Update | 9 October 2025 \u2615"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc8 U.S. index futures are trading flat today, while the dollar (USDIDX) slips 0.1%.<br \/> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa Key events ahead include the <strong>ECB minutes (11:30 GMT)<\/strong>, <strong>Jerome Powell\u2019s speech (12:30 GMT)<\/strong>, and <strong>U.S. wholesale trade data (16:00 GMT)<\/strong>.<br \/> \ud83e\uddfe Before Wall Street opens (around 09:00 GMT), <strong>PepsiCo<\/strong> will report its <strong>Q3 earnings<\/strong>, kicking off the <strong>U.S. large-cap earnings\u00a0season<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca The <strong>September FOMC minutes<\/strong> revealed a <strong>cautiously optimistic Fed<\/strong>: officials revised upward GDP growth forecasts for 2025\u20132028, signalling confidence that the economy can maintain momentum as monetary policy gradually eases.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Almost all members supported a <strong>25 bp rate cut in September<\/strong>, while a few preferred no change\u200a\u2014\u200aand one argued for a deeper 50 bp cut. This highlights the Fed\u2019s intent to <strong>balance growth support and inflation control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Inflation vigilance remains key: participants still see <strong>persistent price risks<\/strong>, but also growing <strong>downside risks to employment<\/strong>. The Fed may rely on tools like the <strong>standing repo facility<\/strong> to stabilise markets during quantitative tightening.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Precious metals stay near recent highs: <strong>gold -0.1%<\/strong>, <strong>silver +0.5%<\/strong>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcbb Crypto faces pressure\u200a\u2014\u200a<strong>Bitcoin hovers near $122,000<\/strong>, down from $125,000, while <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> slides nearly 2%.<br \/> \ud83d\udd25 <strong>Natural gas futures -1%<\/strong> ahead of the <strong>EIA storage report (14:30 GMT)<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200aexpectations point to a sharp jump from 53 bcf to 77\u00a0bcf.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f Meanwhile, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> said not all federal employees will receive back pay for the shutdown period, and the <strong>IRS<\/strong> confirmed <strong>46% of staff<\/strong> will be furloughed during the\u00a0closure.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 <em>Stay alert\u200a\u2014\u200atoday\u2019s ECB and Fed remarks could set the tone for global\u00a0markets!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/morning-market-update-9-october-2025-3b9f36f208ed\">\ud83c\udf05 Morning Market Update | 9 October 2025 \u2615<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc8 U.S. index futures are trading flat today, while the dollar (USDIDX) slips 0.1%. \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa Key events ahead include the ECB minutes (11:30 GMT), Jerome Powell\u2019s speech (12:30 GMT), and U.S. wholesale trade data (16:00 GMT). \ud83e\uddfe Before Wall Street opens (around 09:00 GMT), PepsiCo will report its Q3 earnings, kicking off the U.S. large-cap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}