Despite a long-awaited breakthrough in the US–China trade dispute—one of the biggest sources of October’s market unease—risk assets appear unmoved. Bitcoin fell 1.7% over the week, while equities wobbled amid renewed uncertainty from the Federal Reserve. What was meant to be a relief rally turned instead into a muted response, exposing the market’s growing fixation on monetary policy rather than geopolitics.
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