🗓 THIS WEEK ON THE RADAR: MACRO & CRYPTO
Monday
• 🟠 Michael Saylor likely to announce another
$BTC buy
• 💱 First USD/JPY “rate check” by the Fed in 10+ years (Friday ~midday) → FX intervention incoming?
• ⚖️ Do Kwon trial officially kicks off
Tuesday
• 🌍 Landmark EU–India Free Trade Deal after ~18 years of talks
Ursula von der Leyen: “the deal of all deals”
• 🏛 SEC & CFTC joint crypto regulation event (10:00 ET)
• 🇺🇸 Trump speaks in Iowa on the economy
• 📜 Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on its version of the crypto market structure bill
(may be delayed due to snowstorm ❄️)
• 📊 STX earnings
Wednesday
• 🏦 FOMC meeting – rates expected to stay unchanged
Focus shifts to when the first cut comes
→ Market now prices no cuts before June
• 📉 Bloomberg Intelligence:
Watch Waller & Bowman
– Waller likely aligns with Powell
– Bowman expected to dissent
→ Key signal on Fed independence vs Trump pressure
• 🎤 Powell press conference (first since DOJ disclosures)
• 💼 Earnings: ASML, MSFT, META, TESLA, IBM
Thursday
• 🇬🇧➡️🇨🇳 UK PM Keir Starmer visits China to boost trade relations
(Will Trump approve? Fresh US–Canada–China friction ahead?)
• 🍏 Earnings: Apple, SNDK, Nasdaq, WDC
→ More insight into global supply shortages
Friday
• 🚨 US government funding deadline
→ Shutdown odds: 75% (Polymarket)
• 📍 NumerCon 2026 – 12:30 PT
TBA / During the Week
• 🌐 Macro: Fed leadership decision, AI earnings, potential Trump reactions
• 🧠 Crypto: Lighter preparing multiple announcements
• 🏗 Continued work on the crypto market structure bill
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