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New Dispatch: The Fed Holds the Line, and What Kraken's November Brief Says, Checked
November 8, 2026
Our newest Dispatch restates Kraken's 2 November economic brief on the Federal Reserve's hold, checks what we can against the Fed's own statement and our ETF flow data, and labels every claim we could not verify.
Terms with a dotted underline link to the glossary.
What we published
On 28 October the Federal Reserve held its policy rate at 3.75% to 4.00%, with two of the twelve voting officials dissenting in favor of a rate hike. Kraken, the crypto exchange, published an economic brief on 2 November that reads that decision, October's oil move and a thin stretch of ETF flows as one story about crypto prices.
Our Dispatch, The Fed Holds the Line: What Kraken's November Brief Says, Checked, restates that brief in plain language with charts, then separates what we confirmed from what we did not.
How we handled it
- Checked against primary sources The Fed's decision statement and its 2027 meeting calendar, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics date for the next consumer price index release.
- Checked against our own data We compared Kraken's account of ETF demand with the daily Bitcoin ETF flows in our own feed, and we show Kraken's figures and ours side by side where they differ.
- Labeled when unverified Several of Kraken's figures, including its rate-hike odds, its oil statistics and its ETF totals, could not be confirmed. Each one is labeled as Kraken's on the page, so a reader can see which numbers are ours and which are not.
Where to read it
The Dispatch is subscriber research and is live now at https://www.blockchainiq.co/dispatch/fed-holds-the-line-kraken-brief-2026-11-02. Plans and pricing are at https://www.blockchainiq.co/pricing. The Dispatch is a reading of the evidence, not a forecast.
This is general-circulation educational content, not investment advice, and not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any asset.
Kraken is an exchange that also sells market data and research; the Dispatch says so before any figure.