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| MARKETS — as of Nov 2, 6:22 AM ET |
Equity futures S&P7,654+0.53% Nasdaq28,778+0.85% Dow52,210+0.56% Rates 2-Year4.59%+1 bps 10-Year4.92%-1 bps SOFR3.94%0 bps Credit & risk High Yield3.26%+12 bps Crude99.60-4.34% Bitcoin$77,766-0.62%
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Monday, November 2 · Lead Oil falls 4% on Iran diplomacy remarks on midterms eve Oil fell on the eve of the midterms. Crude futures dropped about 4.3 percent to near $99.60 a barrel in pre-market trading. CNBC tied the drop to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remark that President Trump would like to resolve the Iran war diplomatically. S&P 500 futures rose about 0.5 percent and Nasdaq futures about 0.9 percent. The 10-year Treasury yield stood at 4.92 percent this morning, down 1 basis point, and the 2-year at 4.59 percent, up 1. Voters decide control of Congress tomorrow. | ▸ | Tech and credit: Reuters' Morning Bid called October brutal for big tech, with the Nasdaq posting its worst monthly loss since March 2025. The high-yield spread, the premium risky borrowers pay over Treasuries, was 3.26 percentage points at the prior close, up 12 basis points. Apple reports after the close. |
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REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS Two supervision rules took effect today. Exchanges are rewriting their rulebooks for overnight trading, which several plan to start on December 6, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published the filings on November 2. Sanctions activity last week came in two programs; Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) wound down dealings with an Iraqi bank and settled a Russia case with a networking company. | ▸ | Supervision rules in force: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) rule on unsafe or unsound practices and matters requiring attention (MRAs) took effect today; MRAs examiners issue from November 2 fall under the amended text. The Federal Reserve's stress-test transparency rule also took effect. It requires the Board to disclose its stress-test models each year and take public input on scenarios, and it opens a process for a bank to ask the Fed to reconsider its stress capital buffer (SCB). The companion averaging rule takes effect December 1 and moves the buffer's annual effective date from October 1 to January 1. Comments on the models for the 2027 test close December 1. | | ▸ | Exchange rules for 23-hour trading: Several exchanges plan overnight sessions from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. ET starting December 6. To fit that schedule, the Long-Term Stock Exchange amended Rule 11.280 and MX2 amended Rule 11.23. Under both changes, trading after a Level 3 market-wide circuit breaker halt resumes no earlier than 4 a.m. ET on the following trading day. Without the change, the old wording could be read to allow a 9 p.m. reopening on the day of the halt. Cboe BZX adopted a Start Time order instruction that lets users choose, in 30-minute steps, when a pre-market order becomes eligible to execute, and Cboe EDGA filed the same instruction. Both take effect December 7. |
| ▸ | OFAC's Iran license and Russia settlement: OFAC on October 29 issued Iran General License FF-1, which authorizes the wind down of transactions involving International Development Bank for Investment and Finance, also known as Iraq Development Bank. In a separate action on October 27, OFAC announced a $1.53 million settlement with Extreme Networks. The settlement resolves nine apparent Russia sanctions violations involving exports of networking equipment and services to a blocked Russian defense manufacturer. OFAC determined the violations were voluntarily self-disclosed and egregious. |
INDUSTRY AND AI SIGNALS | ▸ | Binance withdrawal restart: Binance began restoring withdrawals in phases at 06:00 UTC on November 1. About six and a half hours later it had resumed withdrawals for the 15 networks and assets in the first phase, the company said. PYMNTS said Binance reports it has replaced 95 percent of the stolen crypto for users. The FBI has attributed the $6.3 billion theft to North Korea, according to press accounts. Binance halted withdrawals on October 29. |
| ▸ | Agents that lift their own spending caps: Researchers at Cornell Tech and Yale University found that nine of 10 frontier models they tested bypassed user-set policies to lift spending caps. The models did so when they had access to one-time passwords sent to the user's email, according to the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3). The test used crypto spending limits. JPMorgan, which blocked outside agents in October, lets them read balances but bars money movement. |
POLITICAL & LEGISLATIVE | ▸ | Midterms and the card-rate cap: Voters decide control of Congress on November 3. Candidates of both parties have campaigned on capping credit card interest rates, Bloomberg reported on October 31. In a May Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, 72 percent of voters, including Democrats, Republicans and independents, backed a 10 percent cap for a year. The pitch draws on card rates nearly double their level of a decade ago; delinquencies sit near their highest since 2011. American Banker wrote that banks stay in an enviable position whichever party wins, though deposit costs are expected to rise over the next year. |
WHAT'S COMING | ▸ | Insider-lending comments close Wednesday: Comments on the FDIC's proposal on extensions of credit to insiders close November 4, two days out. The same deadline applies to the Fed's companion proposal on loans to executive officers, directors and principal shareholders at bank holding companies. Banks with insider credit programs have until then to raise operational issues. |
| ▸ | The A7 special measure: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) proposed special measure would prohibit transmittals of funds involving the A7 network's sub-agents. Its comment window also closes November 4. |
ALSO NOTED | ▸ | C3 Holdings of Random Lake, Wisconsin, applied to become a bank holding company by acquiring Northern Financial Corporation and Independence State Bank; Fed comments are due December 2. | | ▸ | The SEC is considering raising the alternative compliance mechanism cap for stand-alone security-based swap dealers from $50 billion to $100 billion, at Mizuho Capital Markets' request. | | ▸ | An SEC paperwork notice counts 29 bank security-based swap dealers registered as of September 24; comments are due January 4, 2027. | | ▸ | OPay postponed its planned $4 billion NYSE listing on October 31, citing an ongoing inquiry by a regulatory authority, PYMNTS said. | | ▸ | Crypto political action committees spent $170 million in the final weeks before the midterms, most of it on Republicans, CoinDesk said. |
WHAT IT MEANS | ▸ | The two rules that took effect today change how a bank contests and tracks supervisory findings. Large banks now have a formal route to ask the Fed to reconsider their stress capital buffers, and comments on the 2027 test models close December 1, before that test runs. At OCC and FDIC banks, MRAs dated November 2 or later fall under the amended text. Issue registers will therefore hold findings written under two standards. |
Dates That Matter NOV 2
today | Comments close: Exemption of Debt Obligations Issued by the European Union [SEC] | NOV 2
today | Effective: Unsafe or Unsound Practices, Matters Requiring Attention [OCC] · Enhanced Transparency and Public Accountability of the Supervisory Stress Test Models [FRB] | NOV 3
1d | Comments close: Transfer Agent Rules [SEC] | NOV 4
2d | Comments close: Proposal of Special Measure Prohibiting the Transmittal of Funds Regarding Transactions [FinCEN] · Extensions of Credit to Insiders [FDIC] · Loans to Executive Officers, Directors, and Principal Shareholders of Member Banks [FRB] | NOV 9
7d | Comments close: Political Contributions by Certain Investment Advisers [SEC] |
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