Week in Data: Wall Street Drops on Friday, Yields Slip, Silver Is the Week's Weak Spot

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The short version: For the first time in a few weeks the headline is equities. The Nasdaq 100 fell 2.5% on Friday. Elsewhere the week was quiet: Bitcoin, gold and the dollar index finished almost where they started, silver slid, and US yields fell on Thursday.

A note on method. For Bitcoin, gold, silver, Brent and the dollar index we compare the daily closes of 8 October and 15 October. Friday's close for these markets is not yet in our history file, so the week ends on Thursday here. Equities, EUR/USD and the US 10-year yield do have a 16 October close.

What moved

Silver. From 59.06 to 56.84: −3.77%. The path matters: silver closed at 55.55 on 14 October, the lowest close in our file, then bounced on the 15th.

Nasdaq 100. Friday's close was 29,187.55, −2.5% on the day, from 29,935.60. Last week's column printed 30,883.15 for 9 October; against that, the index is 5.49% lower over the week. The S&P 500 fell 1.09% on Friday to 7,659.44 and the Dow 0.34%. Europe went the other way: Euro Stoxx 50 +0.58%, DAX +0.95%, FTSE 100 +0.38%. In Asia, the Nikkei 225 closed −4.9% on 15 October, at 64,425.95.

US 10-year yield. From 5.244% on 9 October to 5.098% on 16 October, down 14.6 basis points. The 15 October close, 5.089%, followed a 10.1 bp fall that day, and both are the lowest closes since 22 September. The file high is still 5.311% (5 October).

Brent. From 104.28 to 105.92: +1.57%. The file high is 108.75 (15 September).

What didn't

Bitcoin. From $81,676.34 to $82,141.46 in our daily history: +0.57%. On the 14th it touched $81,562.49, its lowest close of the week. On our exchange feed, Ether closed at $2,442.08 on 15 October (+0.85% that day).

Gold. Gold futures went from 4,157.00 to 4,170.10: +0.32%, with a new low close of 4,107.90 in between on 14 October.

Dollar index. 102.14 to 102.00: −0.14%, the lowest close since 2 October. The week's high was 102.58 on 12 October.

One public derivatives data point: in the 24 hours to 07:00 Istanbul time on 16 October, liquidations on the BTCUSDT perpetual contract were $8.21M of longs and $5.05M of shorts.

### What our data shows - Silver closed at 56.84 on 15 October, 3.77% below its 8 October close, after the file's lowest close, 55.55, the day before. - The Nasdaq 100 fell 2.5% on Friday 16 October while the DAX and Euro Stoxx 50 rose. - The US 10-year yield fell 14.6 basis points in a week, to 5.098%. - Bitcoin (+0.57%), gold (+0.32%) and the dollar index (−0.14%) each moved less than 1% over the same seven days.

The week ahead

From our calendar desk, checked against official schedules: nothing on our verified list falls between Monday 19 and Friday 23 October. The next items are all in the following week:

• 27–28 October: FOMC meeting. Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
• 28–29 October: ECB Governing Council, press conference on 29 October. Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/calendars/mgcgc/html/index.en.html
• 29 October, 15:30 Istanbul: BEA releases the Q3 GDP advance estimate and September Personal Income and Outlays. Source: https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule
• 30 October, 15:30 Istanbul: BLS releases the Q3 Employment Cost Index. Source: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/10_sched.htm

Why it matters

Two weeks ago the dollar and yields moved; last week Bitcoin and silver slid. This week yields eased and the largest single move was Friday's drop in US tech. Our data does not say why, and it does not say what comes next. This describes seven days of closes, not a forecast.