Limit Up! 24 October 2025

Ian Reynolds October 24, 2025

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Overnight

Economic Indicators Released Overnight

Canada Retail Sales were strong, and with alarming increase in CPI this week will be causing the Bank of Canada to look long and hard at their strategy, if they have one.

August 2025 Actuals:
Retail sales rebounded strongly, rising 1.0% month-over-month (m/m) to C$70.4 billion, beating expectations and recovering from July's 0.8% decline. Growth was driven by:
Motor vehicle and parts dealers: +1.8% (new cars up 2.3%).

- Clothing and accessories: +3.2%.
- General merchandise: +2.4%.
- Core sales (excluding autos and gas): +1.1% m/m.
September 2025 Advance Estimate: Sales are projected to fall 0.7% m/m, based on partial survey responses (48.4% of companies). This preliminary figure is subject to revision in the full November release.

In the US Existing Home Sales showed a strong rebound.

Equities confounded the doomsayers with a nice rally.

US Equities

Breaking

Exclusive: China state oil majors suspend Russian oil buys due to sanctions, sources say [Reuters]

Bank of America Warns of Forced Stocks Selling If Credit Problems Persist [Bloomberg]

Treasury Sanctions Major Russian Oil Companies, Calls on Moscow to Immediately Agree to Ceasefire [US Treasury]

China overtakes US as Germany's top trading partner [Reuters]

BOJ sees signs of overheating in Japan's stock market [Reuters]

Yen slides as traders eye new US sanctions, CPI data [Reuters]

Bitcoin

As Gold and Silver fever takes a break, all eyes are are on Bitcoin again. Price can’t get above the short-term downtrend at 111.5k so it’s near now. Equally to the downside, despite the appalling price action, we still haven’t closed below 106.5k. Read more

BITCOIN/USD Daily

Commodities

Double trouble pushing oil prices higher suddenly. The US buying a million barrels for the strategic reserve front ran sanctions on Russian oil companies. Price has spiked to the breakdown from the rectangle at 66.10. Read more

SPOT BRENT Daily

Foreign Exchange

Price closed higher than trend resistance at 152.40. Now we look to see confirmation tomorrow and can declare a trend. Below 150.35 negates. With DXY stable and AUD/USD undecided this could be the trend that finally washes out the YEN carry trade and, as such, will get interesting. Read more

USD/YEN Daily