Market Data Brief - 2026-08-13

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Source cutoff: 2026-08-13 UTC. Historical reconstruction uses finalized local observations on or before 2026-08-13 UTC; it is not a point-in-time data vintage.

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The August 13 regulatory flow was centered on enforcement and the governance of financial innovation rather than on monetary policy or macroeconomic conditions. The SEC item announced charges against three people from Toms River in connection with an alleged $47 million fraud targeting Orthodox Jewish communities. Because the archived record contains only the headline and no source URL or excerpt, the defensible conclusion is limited to the existence, alleged scale, and stated community focus of the case; the record does not support claims about the mechanism of the alleged fraud, investor losses ultimately established, defendants’ responses, or the merits of the charges.

The Federal Reserve separately announced a consent prohibition against former Regions Bank employee Elazia Jones in connection with check fraud. This is an individual enforcement action rather than evidence of a broader supervisory finding against the bank. The action shows the banking regulator using its enforcement authority to restrict a former employee following alleged or established misconduct identified in the proceeding, but the supplied excerpt does not indicate a wider institutional deficiency, systemic banking issue, or change in supervisory policy.

The CFTC item was forward-looking in an administrative rather than market-predictive sense. Chairman Michael S. Selig released the agenda for the Innovation Advisory Committee’s inaugural August 20 meeting, with discussion planned around crypto assets, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets. The committee format, public webcast, and comment process indicate that the agency was opening a structured channel for industry and public input on emerging financial technologies and products. The announcement itself does not constitute a new rule, approval, enforcement policy, or deregulatory action, and the CFTC explicitly noted that advisory-committee views do not necessarily represent the Commission or the U.S. government.

Taken together, the three items show regulators operating on two tracks at once: conventional enforcement against alleged fraud and misconduct, and institutionalized consultation around newer technologies and market structures. The enforcement releases emphasize accountability at the individual or alleged-scheme level, while the CFTC notice emphasizes information gathering and policy discussion before any subsequent Commission action. Nothing in the supplied material establishes a common causal link among the cases, nor does it support conclusions about the future direction of enforcement intensity or regulation.

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• no items published after 2026-08-12 through 2026-08-13

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• 2026-08-13 20:32:19 | SEC Charges Toms River Trio in Connection with Alleged $47 Million Fraud Targeting Orthodox Jewish Communities

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• 2026-08-13 15:00:00 | Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Regions Bank https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/enforcement20260813a.htm

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• 2026-08-13 14:00:32 | Chairman Selig Announces Agenda for August 20 Innovation Advisory Committee Meeting in Washington https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9283-26

FRED Shock Summary

The August 13 observations show a notably stable overnight-policy and funding complex alongside a broad decline in Treasury yields. SOFR remained at 3.62%, EFFR and OBFR both remained at 3.63%, and IORB stayed at 3.65%. The unchanged configuration leaves the major overnight rates tightly clustered, with EFFR and OBFR 2 basis points below IORB and SOFR 3 basis points below it. On these data alone, there is no sign of a day-to-day disruption or repricing in the overnight funding rates supplied.

Treasury yields moved lower across the curve. The 2-year yield fell 5 basis points to 4.15%, the 10-year fell 5 basis points to 4.63%, and the 30-year fell 3 basis points to 5.21%. Because the 2-year and 10-year yields declined by the same amount, the reported 10-year-minus-2-year spread was unchanged at 0.48 percentage point. The long end declined slightly less, so the 10-to-30-year segment became modestly steeper in yield terms. The 10-year inflation-indexed Treasury yield declined 3 basis points to 2.39%, indicating that part of the nominal 10-year yield decline was accompanied by a lower real yield. The supplied observations are insufficient to assign the remaining change to any specific inflation-expectations component with precision.

Corporate credit spreads were mostly unchanged. The broad investment-grade OAS stayed at 0.79%, BBB OAS at 0.98%, broad high-yield OAS at 2.71%, and BB OAS at 1.60%. The exception was CCC-and-lower high yield, where the spread widened 4 basis points from 10.20% to 10.24%. That isolated move indicates slightly greater spread pressure in the lowest-rated portion of the supplied credit universe, while higher-quality segments were static. The much larger absolute spread level in CCC-and-lower debt also continued to distinguish it sharply from BB and investment-grade credit.

Moody’s seasoned Baa corporate bond yield fell 4 basis points to 6.30%, broadly consistent in direction with the same-day decline in Treasury yields, although the provided series do not permit a precise matched-maturity decomposition. Overall, the deterministic snapshot is one of stable short-term administered and money-market rates, lower government-bond yields across maturities, an unchanged 2s10s slope, and little movement in credit risk pricing except for a small widening at the weakest high-yield tier.

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• Secured Overnight Financing Rate [SOFR, unit=Percent]: latest 3.62 on 2026-08-13; previous 3.62 on 2026-08-12.
• Effective Federal Funds Rate [EFFR, unit=Percent]: latest 3.63 on 2026-08-13; previous 3.63 on 2026-08-12.
• Overnight Bank Funding Rate [OBFR, unit=Percent]: latest 3.63 on 2026-08-13; previous 3.63 on 2026-08-12.
• Interest Rate on Reserve Balances (IORB Rate) [IORB, unit=Percent]: latest 3.65 on 2026-08-13; previous 3.65 on 2026-08-12.
• Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 2-Year Constant Maturity, Quoted on an Investment Basis [DGS2, unit=Percent]: latest 4.15 on 2026-08-13; previous 4.20 on 2026-08-12.
• Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity, Quoted on an Investment Basis [DGS10, unit=Percent]: latest 4.63 on 2026-08-13; previous 4.68 on 2026-08-12.
• Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 30-Year Constant Maturity, Quoted on an Investment Basis [DGS30, unit=Percent]: latest 5.21 on 2026-08-13; previous 5.24 on 2026-08-12.
• Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity, Quoted on an Investment Basis, Inflation-Indexed [DFII10, unit=Percent]: latest 2.39 on 2026-08-13; previous 2.42 on 2026-08-12.
• 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity [T10Y2Y, unit=Percent]: latest 0.48 on 2026-08-13; previous 0.48 on 2026-08-12.
• ICE BofA US Corporate Index Option-Adjusted Spread [BAMLC0A0CM, unit=Percent]: latest 0.79 on 2026-08-13; previous 0.79 on 2026-08-12.
• ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread [BAMLH0A0HYM2, unit=Percent]: latest 2.71 on 2026-08-13; previous 2.71 on 2026-08-12.
• ICE BofA BBB US Corporate Index Option-Adjusted Spread [BAMLC0A4CBBB, unit=Percent]: latest 0.98 on 2026-08-13; previous 0.98 on 2026-08-12.
• ICE BofA BB US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread [BAMLH0A1HYBB, unit=Percent]: latest 1.60 on 2026-08-13; previous 1.60 on 2026-08-12.
• ICE BofA CCC & Lower US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread [BAMLH0A3HYC, unit=Percent]: latest 10.24 on 2026-08-13; previous 10.20 on 2026-08-12.
• Moody’s Seasoned Baa Corporate Bond Yield [DBAA, unit=Percent]: latest 6.30 on 2026-08-13; previous 6.34 on 2026-08-12.

Yahoo Shock Summary

The August 13 cross-asset snapshot was mixed rather than uniformly risk-on or risk-off. U.S. technology-related equities diverged substantially: Apple rose 1.00%, ASML gained 2.09%, Broadcom rose 0.43%, and AMD was essentially flat at 0.02%, while Amazon fell 0.80%. Coinbase advanced 3.26% and BMNR rose 2.24%, even though Bitcoin itself was effectively unchanged at about $63,402. This separation shows that the listed crypto-linked equities moved much more than the underlying Bitcoin close during the session, so their one-day performance cannot be described simply as a mechanical reflection of Bitcoin’s daily price change.

Fixed-income pricing was firmer. AGG rose 0.27%, consistent with a positive day for the broad U.S. aggregate-bond proxy in the supplied market data. In contrast, commodities were weaker. Brent crude fell 2.15% to $87.07 and WTI declined 2.43% to $81.25, while DBC fell 1.10%. The larger declines in the two oil contracts relative to the diversified commodity ETF indicate that energy weakness was an important feature of the commodity side of this particular snapshot, although the supplied observations do not identify the cause.

Foreign-exchange movements were small. The U.S. Dollar Index slipped 0.05% to 99.96, while USD/CNH declined about 0.02% to 6.74. Because USD/CNH is quoted as dollars per offshore renminbi exchange units in the conventional pair orientation, the lower fixing represents only a very small strengthening of the offshore renminbi against the dollar in this observation. The magnitudes in both currency measures were minor relative to the moves in oil and several individual equities.

Chinese large-cap equities were weaker, with the CSI 300 down 0.57% to 4663.95. That decline contrasted with gains in several U.S.-listed technology and semiconductor names, particularly ASML and Apple, underscoring that the day’s equity performance was regionally and company-specific rather than synchronized. Across the supplied assets, the clearest directional moves were lower oil and broad commodities, higher aggregate bonds, weakness in the CSI 300, and selective strength in individual technology and crypto-related equities. The data do not support attributing these moves to any particular news event or macroeconomic cause.

Update details:

• 000300.SS [CSI 300 Index.]: latest completed close 4663.95 on 2026-08-13; previous close 4690.92 on 2026-08-12 (delta -26.97, -0.57%).
• AAPL: latest completed close 305.26 on 2026-08-13; previous close 302.25 on 2026-08-12 (delta 3.01, 1.00%).
• AGG [iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF.]: latest completed close 97.69 on 2026-08-13; previous close 97.43 on 2026-08-12 (delta 0.26, 0.27%).
• AMD: latest completed close 483.01 on 2026-08-13; previous close 482.93 on 2026-08-12 (delta 0.08, 0.02%).
• AMZN: latest completed close 265.13 on 2026-08-13; previous close 267.28 on 2026-08-12 (delta -2.15, -0.80%).
• ASML: latest completed close 1847.90 on 2026-08-13; previous close 1810.07 on 2026-08-12 (delta 37.83, 2.09%).
• AVGO: latest completed close 417.82 on 2026-08-13; previous close 416.05 on 2026-08-12 (delta 1.77, 0.43%).
• BMNR: latest completed close 18.29 on 2026-08-13; previous close 17.89 on 2026-08-12 (delta 0.40, 2.24%).
• BTC-USD [Bitcoin quoted in U.S. dollars.]: latest completed close 63402.17 on 2026-08-13; previous close 63402.43 on 2026-08-12 (delta -0.26, 0.00%).
• BZ=F [Brent crude oil futures contract.]: latest completed close 87.07 on 2026-08-13; previous close 88.98 on 2026-08-12 (delta -1.91, -2.15%).
• CL=F [WTI crude oil futures contract.]: latest completed close 81.25 on 2026-08-13; previous close 83.27 on 2026-08-12 (delta -2.02, -2.43%).
• CNH=X [USD/CNH exchange rate on Yahoo Finance (offshore renminbi).]: latest completed close 6.74 on 2026-08-13; previous close 6.75 on 2026-08-12 (delta 0.00, -0.02%).
• COIN: latest completed close 153.90 on 2026-08-13; previous close 149.04 on 2026-08-12 (delta 4.86, 3.26%).
• DBC [Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund.]: latest completed close 29.78 on 2026-08-13; previous close 30.11 on 2026-08-12 (delta -0.33, -1.10%).
• DX-Y.NYB [U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), a basket-based measure of USD strength against major foreign currencies.]: latest completed close 99.96 on 2026-08-13; previous close 100.01 on 2026-08-12 (delta -0.05, -0.05%).