🕛 Noon Update | 21.04.2025 📉 Markets Slide at the Open US indices kicked off the week in the red: 🔻 US500 -1.05% 🔻 US100 -1.15% 📊 No major macro news today, except for U.S. leading indicators at 16:00 GMT+3. ⚠️ VIX (volatility index) jumps +2.1% 💰 Gold is on the rise again, +1.9% and nearing $2,400/oz 🟡 💶 EUR/USD breaks above 1.15 🚀 💵 Dollar Index plunges below 100, now testing the 98 zone 📉 💥 Crypto Rally 🟠 bitcoin +2.9% → above $87,500 💧 Ripple +2.5% → holding $2.12 (above 200-day EMA) 🌐 Decentraland (MANA) leads the charge: +11.8% 📈 🇨🇳 China holds rates steady: 🔹 5-year → 3.6% 🔹 1-year → 3.1% 📈 Asian futures mostly quiet, except: 🇯🇵 JP225 +0.7% 🇸🇬 SG20 slightly down 🛢️ Commodities Crude Oil ↓ 1% Natural Gas ↓ 1% 🌽 CBOT grains mostly up (except wheat, -0.6%) 🗞️ Weekend Spotlight 🇺🇸 Rumours swirl about a possible dismissal of Fed Chair Powell 🤯 Trump pushing for rate cuts 📉 Even a 2026 replacement could steer policy in a dovish direction, inflation or not 📉 🗣️ Fed’s Goolsbee stresses independence and notes tariff stockpiling is mainly seen in B2B, not in consumer spending.