Week in Data: The Dollar and Yields Climb, Metals Stop Falling, Bitcoin Stands Still

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The short version: The dollar and US yields were the week's steady movers. Metals and oil were lower over seven days, but the metals stopped making new lows. Bitcoin barely moved. US tech rose three sessions in a row.

A note on method. For Bitcoin, gold, silver, Brent and the dollar index, we compare the daily closes of 24 September and 1 October. Friday's close for these markets is not yet in our file, so the week ends on Thursday here. The US 10-year yield and the Nasdaq 100 do have a 2 October close. For Ether and the Nasdaq 100 we keep no stored history, so we compare with the 29 September closes printed in our last column.

What moved

Dollar index. New in this column: our file now carries it. From 101.29 to 102.10, +0.80%. The 1 October close is the highest in our file, which starts on 12 August. That day alone was +0.64%.

US 10-year yield. From 5.184% on 25 September to 5.277% on 2 October, up 9.3 basis points. The highest close in our file is 5.293%, on 30 September.

Silver. From 63.46 to 60.72: −4.31%. The lowest close in our file came on 30 September at 60.10.

Brent. From 106.60 to 102.31: −4.02%. The last session was −1.18%, while WTI rose +2.71% the same day.

Gold. Gold futures went from 4,298.00 to 4,202.30: −2.23%. The low of our file is still 28 September, at 4,168.40. Every close since then has been higher.

What didn't

Bitcoin. From 84,379.06 to 84,853.10 in our daily history: +0.56% over seven days. That is 2.02% below the highest close in our 36-day window, 86,602.91 on 21 September. On our exchange feed, 1 October was +1.5%, at 84,880.05.

Ether. 2,677.98 on 29 September, 2,706.42 on 1 October: +1.06% over two days.

Nasdaq 100. Up +0.23%, +0.31% and +1% on the last three sessions, from 30,339.33 to 30,807.93: +1.54%. We have no full-week figure.

One more public data point from our derivatives summary: in the 24 hours to 07:00 Istanbul time on 2 October, liquidations on four large perpetual contracts totalled $6.62M of shorts and $3.49M of longs.

### What our data shows - The dollar index closed at 102.10 on 1 October, the highest close in our file since 12 August. - The US 10-year yield rose 9.3 basis points in a week and set its file high of 5.293% on 30 September. - Silver (−4.31%), Brent (−4.02%) and gold (−2.23%) all closed lower over the same seven days. - Bitcoin moved +0.56% over those seven days, the smallest change among the five markets we can compare.

The week ahead

From our calendar desk, checked against official schedules:

• 6 October, 15:30 Istanbul (08:30 ET): the BEA publishes US International Trade in Goods and Services for August. Source: https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule
• The US Employment Situation report for September was scheduled for 2 October at 15:30 Istanbul. Source: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/empsit.htm. Its figures are not in our data, so we do not comment on them.

Why it matters

Last week the story was metals. This week the larger share of movement sat in the dollar and in yields, and Bitcoin did very little while that happened. That is a description of seven days, not a forecast.