10/30/26 Financial Data of the Week

10/30/26 Financial Data of the Week: S&P 500 down 0.6% last week (up 10.7% ytd) & WTI Crude Oil up $0.85, or 0.8%, to $104.12 (up 81% ytd. 

For the Week:

The Bloomberg Commodities Index slipped 1.7% (up 28.7% y-t-d). 

Spot Gold lost 3.0% to $3,875 (down 10.3%). 

Silver sank 8.9% to $49.1001 (down 31.5%). 

WTI Crude added 85 cents, or 0.8%, to $104.12 (up 81%). 

Retail Gasoline declined 2.1.% (up 45%)

Natural Gas dropped 5.0% to $2.898 (down 21%). 

Copper slipped 0.4% (up 14%)

Wheat dropped 3.4% (up 19%)

Corn fell 1.8% (up 2%). 

Bitcoin sank $4.080, or 5.0%, to $76,780 (down 12.4%)

The S&P500 slipped 0.6% (up 10.7% y-t-d)

The Dow declined 0.9% (up 7.7%)

Utilities rose 2.1% (up 4.1%)

Banks gained 0.9% (up 4.8%)

Broker/Dealers were slammed 5.2% (up 6.7%)

Transports added 1.4% (up 17.1%)

S&P 400 Midcaps gained 1.3% (up 10.8%) 

Small cap Russell 2000 rose 1.3% (up 13.3%)

Nasdaq100 dropped 2.0% (up 12.2%). The 

Semiconductors declined 0.8% (up 50.9%)

Biotechs surged 3.5% (up 35.7%). 

With bullion down $121, the HUI gold index fell 3.9% (down 7.4%) 

U.K.’s FTSE increased 0.4% (up 7.9% y-t-d).

Japan’s Nikkei 225 increased 1.0% (up 25.7% y-t-d). 

France’s CAC40 rallied 2.4% (down 2.2%)

German DAX recovered 2.5% (up 5.4%). 

Spain’s IBEX 35 fell 1.8% (up 7.8%). 

Italy’s FTSE MIB rallied 1.9% (up 10.1%).

Brazil’s Bovespa sank 18.4% (up 4.2%)

Mexico’s Bolsa slipped 0.2% (up 8.4%). 

South Korea’s Kospi rallied 3.3% (up 36.0%). 

India’s Sensex recovered 1.8% (down 12.6%). 

China’s Shanghai Exchange dropped 2.5% (down 9.3%).

 Turkey’s Borsa Istanbul National 100 fell 3.2% (down 4.5%). 

Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates dropped eight bps to 7.24% (up 107bps y-o-y). 

Fifteen-year rates fell eight bps to 6.60% (up 119bps). 

Jumbo mortgage 30-year fixed rate down 10 bps to 7.43% (up 99bps)

Three-month Treasury bill rates ended the week at 3.9825%. 

Two-year government yields fell nine bps to 4.59% (up 111bps y-t-d). 

Five-year T-note yields dropped nine bps to 4.72% (up 99bps). 

Ten-year Treasury yields declined seven bps to 4.93% (up 76bps). 

Long bond yields slipped a basis point to 5.31% (up 47bps). 

Benchmark Fannie Mae MBS yields dropped 10 bps to 6.06% (up 101bps).

Federal Reserve Credit last week slipped $1.1 billion to $6.706 TN, with a 46-week expansion of $215 billion. 

Fed Credit was down $2.184 TN from the June 22, 2022, peak. 

Since the September 11, 2019 restart of QE, Fed Credit has expanded $2.979 TN, or 80%. 

Total money market fund assets (MMFA) dropped $43.3 billion to $7.901 TN. 

MMFA were up $483 billion, or 6.5%, y-o-y - having ballooned a historic $3.269 TN, or 71%, since October 26,2022.=