{"id":237165,"date":"2026-10-08T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=237165"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:48:20","slug":"%e2%98%80%ef%b8%8f-nordfx-morning-update-october-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=237165","title":{"rendered":"\u2600\ufe0f NordFX Morning Update \u2014 October 8, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udee2\ufe0f <strong>Oil and geopolitics:<\/strong> Brent is up more than 2% to about $102.5, with WTI near $90. Reports say the Pentagon has been told to prepare for a possible resumption of major combat operations against Iran. Hormuz shipping risks are also in\u00a0focus.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe6 <strong>Fed and yields:<\/strong> The September FOMC minutes showed most officials expect another hike before year-end. Markets price about a 19% chance for October and about 80% for December. The US 10-year yield touched 5.36%, its highest since 2002, then eased to around\u00a05.3%.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <strong>Wall Street:<\/strong> US stocks pulled back from record highs.<br \/> \ud83d\udcc9 Dow: 51,179.87 (down 0.66%)<br \/> \ud83d\udcc9 S&amp;P 500: 7,801.77 (down 0.22%)<br \/> \ud83d\udcc9 Nasdaq: 27,538.69 (down\u00a00.22%)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0f <strong>Asian markets:<\/strong> Most of the region is in the red as oil and yields weigh on sentiment.<br \/> \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 Nikkei 225 is down about 1.1%, with a second straight session of losses.<br \/> \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7 KOSPI is down about 2%, its third straight decline. Samsung slipped despite forecasting record Q3 profit.<br \/> \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf0 Hang Seng is down roughly 0.2\u20130.9%, with tech and biotech under pressure.<br \/> \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 Shanghai is little changed as mainland markets reopened after the Golden Week holiday.<br \/> \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 The RBI raised its repo rate by 25 bp to 5.50%, its first hike since February 2023. Sensex and Nifty are down about\u00a00.4%.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb1 <strong>Markets snapshot:<\/strong><br \/> \ud83d\udcb6 EUR\/USD: about 1.1200, near 17-month lows<br \/> \ud83d\udcb5 Dollar Index: about 102.3<br \/> \ud83e\udd47 Gold: about $4,130, near its lowest since early August<br \/> \u20bf Bitcoin: about $83,400, below\u00a0$85,000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/%EF%B8%8F-nordfx-morning-update-october-8-2026-a0f5c84d1657\">\u2600\ufe0f NordFX Morning Update \u2014 October 8, 2026<\/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\udee2\ufe0f Oil and geopolitics: Brent is up more than 2% to about $102.5, with WTI near $90. Reports say the Pentagon has been told to prepare for a possible resumption of major combat operations against Iran. Hormuz shipping risks are also in\u00a0focus. \ud83c\udfe6 Fed and yields: The September FOMC minutes showed most officials expect another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":237166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237165"}],"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=237165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}