{"id":247532,"date":"2026-11-04T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=247532"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:40:36","slug":"nordfx-morning-update-november-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=247532","title":{"rendered":"NordFX Morning Update \u2014 November 3, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f <strong>Oil volatile as US\u2013Iran diplomacy hopes persist<\/strong> \ud83d\udee2\ufe0f<br \/> Talk of progress in Qatar-mediated negotiations wiped out much of the war premium on Monday, when Brent fell about 7.6%. It has bounced back slightly this morning: Brent is at $105.8 and WTI at $97.4, both up about\u00a01%.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f <strong>US midterm elections today<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200avoting is under way, and markets are bracing for volatility.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <strong>Wall Street (Monday close)<\/strong><br \/> \ud83d\udcc9 S&amp;P 500: 7,541 (down 0.5%)<br \/> \ud83d\udcc9 Nasdaq: 25,164 (down 1.1%), in correction territory after the chip selloff and AI spending worries<br \/> \ud83d\udcc8 Dow: 51,984 (up 0.4%)<br \/> \ud83d\udcb5 The US 10-year yield is at 4.91%, and the dollar index (DXY) is at\u00a0101.74.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0f <strong>Asia<\/strong><br \/> \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7 Kospi: 5,626 (down 4.0%), the region\u2019s weakest, hit by the chip rout and Apple\u2019s China miss<br \/> \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc Taiex: 43,200 (down 3.8%)<br \/> \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3 Shanghai Composite: 3,596 (down 1.2%)<br \/> \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf0 Hang Seng: 23,451 (up 0.2%), supported by new Chinese market support measures<br \/> \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa ASX 200: 8,887 (up 0.3%). The RBA raised rates by 25 bps to 4.85%, an 18-year high, on a 6\u20133 vote.<br \/> \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 Nifty 50: 23,691 (up 1.1%)<br \/> \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 Tokyo is closed for Culture\u00a0Day.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb1 <strong>FX<\/strong><br \/> \ud83d\udcb6 EUR\/USD: 1.1193<br \/> \ud83d\udcb4 USD\/JPY:\u00a0157.84<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 <strong>Gold:<\/strong> $3,929 (down 1.0%). It is under pressure from December Fed hike bets and still well below its January\u00a0peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u20bf <strong>Crypto<\/strong><br \/> Bitcoin is at $76,600 (down 2.0%). Spot ETF outflows and the fallout from the Binance hack are weighing on sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 <strong>Ahead:<\/strong> US Treasury refunding and ADP tomorrow, then the BoE decision on Thursday, where a hike is expected. \ud83d\udd14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/nordfx-morning-update-november-3-2026-200e0a727e52\">\ud83d\udcca NordFX Morning Update \u2014 November 3, 2026 \ud83c\udf0d<\/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\udd4a\ufe0f Oil volatile as US\u2013Iran diplomacy hopes persist \ud83d\udee2\ufe0f Talk of progress in Qatar-mediated negotiations wiped out much of the war premium on Monday, when Brent fell about 7.6%. It has bounced back slightly this morning: Brent is at $105.8 and WTI at $97.4, both up about\u00a01%. \ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f US midterm elections today\u200a\u2014\u200avoting is under way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":247533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247532","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\/247532"}],"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=247532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}