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CME Group runs U.S. futures and options exchanges, trading derivatives in rates, equities, commodities and crypto; its FedWatch tool tracks Fed rate odds.
Jump Trading and DRW are putting traders and capital into GPU compute contracts, starting with private 3-to-5-year bilateral deals. The exchange-listed layer that would open the market to more hedgers still waits on a CFTC decision.
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Gold rose 1% while the 10-year Treasury yield fell eight basis points to 5.08% and copper slid nearly 1%, CoinDesk reported. CME futures put a Fed hike this month at 29%, down from nearly 50% after Wednesday's CPI, and we think that weakens the inflation half of the stagflation story.
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Russell 2000 is up about 15.1% this year, but Furey Research found an average 0.5% gain across 11 midterm years, with gains in only 45% of them. The post-election record bulls cite looks very different once the last four midterms are included.
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Bitcoin closed the week at about $83,700, 1.4% above $82,500 support, as markets forecast September CPI at 3.7% against 3.4% in August. The cushion is under half of last week's 3.2% loss, and a December hike is already at 70.6%.
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VS Trust's 3x bitcoin and ether funds won SEC approval of their exchange-listing rules on Oct. 2, moving daily-reset leverage closer to trading. Because the triple exposure resets every session, a holder can be right about bitcoin for months and still lose money.
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JPMorgan analysts count about $50 billion of crypto inflows so far this year, an annualized pace of roughly $66 billion. Third-quarter buying moved away from corporate treasuries toward ETF holders and futures traders who can exit in a day, at about half of last year's pace.
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Kalshi has asked the CFTC to approve a WTI futures contract that expires only once every 10 years. The agency's 45-day review will test whether closing on weekends clears the benchmark-pricing concern that sank CME's round-the-clock oil plan.
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CME's FedWatch has Wednesday's quarter point at 94.5%, up from under half a month ago, and the ten-year at 5.04% shows bond desks bought it in advance. The forecasts still diverge on what follows.
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A White House remark about CFTC Chairman Michael Selig repriced HYPE and a Nasdaq treasury stock. No approval, no registration path and no timeline has been put on the record.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $241.1 million in the week to Oct. 2, about 90% less than a week earlier, Bitfinex analysts said. Their breakout test needs several sessions of at least $340 million each and a daily close above $87,722.
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Binance, Bybit and OKX handled $56.18 billion of XRP futures trading in September, near a six-month high, Cryptoquant data show. Volume counts every trade and the same margin can back many of them, so new money would have to show up in open interest and spot buying.
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Volatility Shares' 3x Ether ETF would reach CME's 8,000-contract accountability level with only about $362 million in assets. Whether CME counts it together with sister fund ETHU decides if the new fund launches with room of its own or already over the line.
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CME plans to list two Nvidia GPU compute futures on October 5, pending regulatory approval, with prices running 36 months forward. Bitcoin miners that moved into AI hosting can hedge with them only if what they are paid moves with a GPU rental index.
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Hindalco plans to run alumina spot tenders on Metalshub, in a market where it estimates only about 10% of 55-60 million traded tonnes sell spot. The deal data could feed an LME index and later a futures contract, a route reported as possible and unconfirmed.
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Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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A September 15 cloture vote needs 60 votes, and only 14 working days remain before the October recess. The SEC is drafting a token exemption in the meantime.
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Two filings dated August 18 would import the structure behind an estimated 93% of crypto derivatives volume into equities and metals. Neither is approved, and the book is still small.
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Terry Duffy mocked Kalshi's hot dog contract; Luana Lopes Lara asked about CME's manipulation record. The live question is whether event contracts get exchange-grade oversight, and who writes it.
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The waiver is small against a year of American beef demand and not small against the ground beef it targets. Ranchers will price the risk off expectations, not tonnage.
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