Fed Minutes and Eight Fed Appearances Fill the Week Ahead
October FOMC minutes arrive Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET. Bitcoin ETFs head into the week after seven straight days of outflows totaling about $1.91 billion.
Minutes from the Federal Reserve's Oct. 27-28 meeting land Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET, the main scheduled event in a week with eight Fed board appearances. Bitcoin starts it near $67,240, per CoinGecko at 5:56 a.m. ET Saturday, down 3.0% in 24 hours.
Wholesale prices rose 6.5% in the year to October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, the largest annual rise since November 2022. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have also posted seven straight days of net outflows, about $1.91 billion from Nov. 5 through Nov. 13, Farside Investors data show.
How the minutes work
Minutes are the Fed's written record of a rate meeting, released three weeks after it. They show what officials argued over, in far more detail than the short decision-day statement. The next decision comes Dec. 9, at the end of a two-day meeting, per the Fed's meeting calendar. The link to crypto runs through yields: higher expected rates raise what bonds and cash pay, and bitcoin pays nothing.
The dates, all ET
- Monday, Nov. 16: Governor Michael Barr speaks on AI and financial stability at 5 a.m. Chairman Kevin Warsh opens a San Francisco Fed conference on productivity and jobs at noon, the Fed calendar shows.
- Tuesday, Nov. 17: October import and export prices at 8:30 a.m., per the BLS schedule. Governor Christopher Waller speaks on payments at 9:10 a.m.; industrial production follows at 9:15.
- Wednesday, Nov. 18: Barr on community development at 1:35 p.m., then the minutes at 2 p.m.
- Thursday, Nov. 19: Vice Chair Philip Jefferson discusses economic shocks at 9:25 a.m. Barr discusses AI at 2:15 p.m.
- Friday, Nov. 20: Waller gives welcoming remarks at 8:25 a.m. October state jobs data come at 10 a.m. Governor Lisa Cook speaks in Santiago, Chile, at 12:15 p.m.
In our opinion: the document worth the wait is Wednesday's. With wholesale inflation at 6.5% and ETF holders pulling money for seven sessions running, the minutes are the best record of how officials weighed prices in October before the Dec. 9 call. It's a week light on numbers and heavy on paragraphs, so the reading list runs longer than the data list.
Sources: Federal Reserve November 2026 calendar · Federal Reserve FOMC meeting calendar · BLS November 2026 release schedule · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Index news release · CNBC: Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in October, putting annual rate at 6.5% · Farside Investors: Bitcoin ETF flows · CoinGecko: Bitcoin
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