Market Data Brief - 2026-08-23

This brief summarizes the latest records available in Vox’s local investdatar caches. Dates shown in source details are data dates, not publication promises.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-23 UTC. Yahoo daily bars through 2026-08-23 UTC are treated as provisional and excluded from close-based summaries.

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FRED Shock Summary

The administered-rate configuration was unchanged in the supplied observations. IORB remained at 3.65%, while the federal funds target range stayed at 3.50% to 3.75%. That places IORB 15 basis points above the lower bound and 10 basis points below the upper bound, with no day-over-day movement in any of the three policy-rate series. On these observations alone, there is no indication of a change in the formal rate-setting configuration between August 22 and August 23.

The uncertainty measures moved much more noticeably. The U.S. Economic Policy Uncertainty Index rose from 173.99 to 257.58, an increase of 83.59 index points, or roughly 48.0%. The Equity Market-related Economic Uncertainty Index increased from 78.76 to 82.47, a rise of 3.71 points, or about 4.7%. The contrast is important: the broad policy-uncertainty measure registered a large one-day increase, whereas the equity-market-related uncertainty measure rose only modestly.

Taken strictly as a snapshot of the listed series, the data therefore show a stable administered-rate backdrop alongside a sharp increase in the broader policy-uncertainty indicator and a smaller increase in equity-related uncertainty. The observations establish co-movement in date, not causation, and they do not by themselves identify what produced the uncertainty changes or imply any subsequent policy response.

Update details:

Interest Rate on Reserve Balances (IORB Rate) [IORB, unit=Percent]: latest 3.65 on 2026-08-23; previous 3.65 on 2026-08-22.
Federal Funds Target Range - Lower Limit [DFEDTARL, unit=Percent]: latest 3.50 on 2026-08-23; previous 3.50 on 2026-08-22.
Federal Funds Target Range - Upper Limit [DFEDTARU, unit=Percent]: latest 3.75 on 2026-08-23; previous 3.75 on 2026-08-22.
Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for United States [USEPUINDXD, unit=Index]: latest 257.58 on 2026-08-23; previous 173.99 on 2026-08-22.
Equity Market-related Economic Uncertainty Index [WLEMUINDXD, unit=Index]: latest 82.47 on 2026-08-23; previous 78.76 on 2026-08-22.

Yahoo Shock Summary

The supplied cross-asset observations show gains in both major cryptocurrencies and very limited movement in the three listed foreign-exchange pairs. Bitcoin closed at 77,755.27, up 671.85 dollars or 0.87% from the previous close. Ethereum closed at 2,463.82, up 39.56 dollars or 1.63%. Ethereum therefore recorded the larger percentage increase of the two, outperforming Bitcoin by about 0.76 percentage point over the respective latest-close comparison.

Foreign-exchange changes were much smaller. EUR/USD was effectively unchanged near 1.17, with a reported gain of 0.03%, while GBP/USD was near 1.37 and up 0.04%. USD/JPY moved from 158.94 to 158.90, a decline of 0.04 in the quoted rate, or 0.02%. Because USD/JPY is quoted as yen per U.S. dollar, that small decline corresponds mechanically to a marginally lower dollar value against the yen in this observation. The EUR/USD and GBP/USD percentage increases likewise indicate only very slight increases in those currencies against the dollar.

Overall, the deterministic snapshot is characterized by positive cryptocurrency returns, led by Ethereum on a percentage basis, while the listed major FX rates were essentially flat. The scale difference is notable: crypto moved by roughly 0.9% to 1.6%, whereas all three currency-pair changes were only a few hundredths of a percent. These observations describe relative price movement only and do not establish a common cause, a persistent trend, or any implication for future returns.