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Ether is a toll booth, bitcoin is a vault

The two largest cryptocurrencies share the same screens but earn their keep differently.

ETH funding +0.0098% / 8h · 24 Sept 2026 · Binance

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Silver is gold with a day job

Half monetary metal, half industrial input — silver tends to follow gold's direction and swing harder in both directions.

SOFR 3.87% · 22 Sept 2026 · NY Fed

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Oil is everyone's input cost

Crude sits upstream of almost every price on the board — fuel, freight, plastics, and the inflation prints central banks answer for.

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EUR/GBP is the slowest major

Two deeply intertwined economies trading a few doors apart tend to produce a currency pair that rarely goes anywhere fast.

SONIA 3.73% · 21 Sept 2026 · Bank of England

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USD/CAD trades like oil's shadow

The loonie takes its name from the loon, the bird stamped on the Canadian one-dollar coin, and it trades like an oil producer's currency.

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The Aussie is a commodities receipt

Australia exports what China builds with, so the Aussie dollar often reads like a proxy for Chinese demand as much as an Australian one.

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The DAX counts its dividends

The DAX reinvests every dividend into the number itself, which most of its peers don't.

€STR 2.44% · 22 Sept 2026 · ECB

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The FTSE 100 is not the UK economy

Most of the index earns most of its revenue somewhere else, so a weaker pound often helps the number rise.

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EuroStoxx 50: Europe in one number

Fifty companies from a currency union of twenty-one, none of them small enough to call this a full picture.

€STR 2.44% · 22 Sept 2026 · ECB

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The Nasdaq 100 is a rates bet in disguise

Long-dated growth stocks discount profits that arrive years out, which makes the index a rates trade wearing a tech costume.

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What the S&P 500 actually is

Five hundred companies sit in the index; a much smaller handful decide where it closes.

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Bitcoin never closes

The only market open every day of the year has learned to make the most of it.

BTC funding +0.0036% / 8h · 24 Sept 2026 · Binance

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What gold actually hedges

Gold pays no coupon, so what it competes against is the return you give up by holding it.

SOFR 3.87% · 22 Sept 2026 · NY Fed

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USD/JPY is a bond trade

The pair reads like an FX chart and behaves like a bond spread.

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Why cable gaps

Cable got its name from the transatlantic telegraph cable that once carried its price between London and New York, and the order book hasn't calmed down since.

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What moves EUR/USD

The chart shows the effect; the cause is two central banks and a release calendar.

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