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🚨 This week’s key events | October 12–18, 2026 All times Eastern (ET). U.S. Q3 earnings season gets underway, with major banks reporting. **Monday, October 12** 🌎 IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings open in Bangkok and run through October 18. 🇪🇺 The EU adopts new sanctions targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. **Tuesday, October 13** 🏦 Major U.S. banks begin reporting earnings. **Wednesday, October 14** 🔥 8:30 a.m. — U.S. September CPI inflation. 🇺🇸 2:00 p.m. — Federal Reserve Beige Book. **Thursday, October 15** 🔥 8:30 a.m. — U.S. September PPI inflation. 🇺🇸 8:30 a.m. — Initial jobless claims. 🇺🇸 4:30 p.m. — Fed balance sheet update. 🎙️ 11:30 p.m. — Fed Chair Kevin Warsh joins IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva for a fireside chat. PulseWire

🇷🇺 UPDATE: Russia’s central bank has authorized Sberbank to join the list of institutions permitted to exchange cryptocurrencies. PulseWire

⚡️ Jim Cramer expects oil prices to stay near $100 for as long as the war continues. PulseWire

🔥 JUST ANNOUNCED: DATA Network is bringing its Trace registry to Sui, with Walrus as the default storage layer. Together, they’ll give AI labs access to a trusted pool of training data that’s cleared for use. PulseWire

🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran says the US response to its seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz falls short, Reuters reports. PulseWire

🚨 UPDATE: The XRP Ledger Foundation says the bug fixed in the latest release did not result in any new XRP being created. The supply remains capped at 100 billion, and the fix is included in version 3.4.1. PulseWire

🔥 Crypto losses continue to climb. Hackers stole $2.68 billion through September, and October’s tally has already topped $98 million. The biggest reported incident saw more than $86 million drained from compromised Ledger devices. An exploit targeting 79th Vault resulted in a further $12.5 million loss. PulseWire

⚡ Update: The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has returned to neutral territory, climbing to 58. PulseWire

🇺🇸 INSIGHT: U.S. households are finding it increasingly difficult to stay on top of debt payments. Affordability has fallen to its lowest level since the aftermath of the financial crisis, CNBC reports. PulseWire

⚡ BIG: CoinGecko now tracks more than 22,000 coins. Yet by late September, less than 25% of the median altcoin’s supply was in profit, according to Glassnode. PulseWire

🔥 BitMine is just 200,000 ETH short of owning 5% of Ethereum’s total supply. It currently holds 5.85 million ETH, worth $14.27 billion. PulseWire

🇦🇷 UPDATE: Argentina’s central bank says banks could be allowed to offer crypto services if Milei is re-elected, reversing a ban introduced four years ago. PulseWire

🔥 Strive’s CEO says, “Think ₿igger.” Is he taking a page from Saylor’s playbook? PulseWire

🚨 Nearly 700,000 $BTC has left exchanges over the past year. PulseWire

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has hit back at Senator Elizabeth Warren, citing her “complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets” and offering to add “Fixed Income for Dummies” to her FX tutorial—if she passes. PulseWire

🇺🇸 UPDATE: The value of the U.S. government’s crypto holdings has fallen $16 billion from last year’s peak. PulseWire

📊 MARKET: $ETH ETFs recorded their largest weekly net outflows since late January. PulseWire

🇺🇸 The dollar paradox: There’s more money in circulation than ever, yet each dollar buys less. PulseWire

📊 MARKET: Solana now has more than 14 million stablecoin holders. PulseWire