✅ It has begun: The Bank of Japan has kept its interest rate unchanged at 1%, but confirmed interventions to support the yen's exchange rate amounting to $58 billion. Moreover, the U.S. has approved support for the Japanese yen and the South Korean won 🌡.
The risk of a carry trader collapse has resurfaced: at the opening, the S&P 500 lost $700 billion, and BTC fell below $63k.
Friday's events:
🔸 Amazon gained 15% after a strong report: the 37% growth in AWS revenue impressed investors more than the negative free cash flow.
🔸 Saudi Arabia assembled a coalition of 14 countries for an operation against Yemen's Houthis to open the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
🔸 Strategy reported a quarterly loss of $8.2 billion and a balance of 843,775 BTC. The company will no longer buy BTC with all available funds and is ready to sell cryptocurrency as necessary 😳.
🔸 Tether earned $1.5 billion in Q2: with a balance of 146 tons of gold and 98,933 BTC.
🔸 Apple fell 9% after its quarterly report: revenue and earnings were above expectations, but investors were disappointed by the weak Q3 forecast.
🔸 Claude also hacked other companies, even three times. After the story of ChatGPT escaping from an isolated server, Anthropic conducted an audit of old tests and found three similar cases 💀.
🔸 Coinbase reported a 16% revenue decline and a loss of $359 million. The leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange continues to suffer from the crypto winter – stocks are down 40% since the beginning of the year.
🔷 Exchange rates:
🥇 Bitcoin – $62,787 (↓2.98%) 🤔 S&P 500 – 7,466 (↑0.39%) 🕙 USD/RUB – 80.23 (↑0.29%) 🕖 USD/UAH – 44.65 (↑0.08%) 🌉 Gold – $4,043 (↓1.46%) 📦 Oil Brent – $87.72 (↑0.80%)