The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported a personal savings rate of 4.1% in August 2026 in the United States. The reading is the lowest since 2022 and, excluding the inflationary shock after the pandemic, the weakest since 2008. The decline was 0.5 percentage points from July and 1.6 points since January 2025.
Sberbank wins Russian approval to custody Bitcoin and crypto assets as the country expands its regulated digital asset market.
Japan's October 6 auction drew firmer demand at a higher yield after earlier foreign-debt sales, raising a potential Bitcoin financing risk.
The proposed contract would be tied to the Volmex Bitcoin ETF Volatility Index, but its terms, launch timeline and regulatory pathway remain unconfirmed.
Bitcoin broke below the level in two moves, during Asia trading and at the U.S. open, and has not recovered it.
Bitcoin traded near $83,000 and spot gold tested $4,100 on Oct. 7 after the Federal Reserve raised its policy range to 3.75%-4% in September.
The transfer was valued at about $71.56 million, but blockchain data does not confirm a sale or a sale order.
Could these government wallet movements trigger a Bitcoin sell-off?
TL;DR: Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, marking its first proprietary BTC holding separate from customer assets. The amount is small relative to Robinhood's roughly $100 billion valuation, but the company says that is partly the point: the purchase is intended as a signal of alignment with Bitcoin and the wider crypto market.
Bitcoin gained 84.2% from the January 2024 pre-ETF baseline through Oct. 5, 2026, even as nominal and real yields rose.
Bitcoin slipped toward $83,000 after failing to hold above $87,000, while Ether and other major altcoins posted steeper losses ahead of Federal Reserve minutes.
In spite of the fact that Bitcoin (BTC) led the broader cryptocurrency market selloff on October 7, BTC's market capitalization fell by over 70 billion over the past 24 hours; on-chain data indicates that the net supply of BTC on crypto exchanges has declined as outflows surged to a 7-month high.