Dollar Holds Losses Ahead of Fed Minutes, Speakers

On air: Kenji Moonfield on Futures & Crypto Overnight
Published 9:32 PM ET, Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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First reported by Reuters: “Dollar holds losses as markets await Fed minutes, speakers”.
Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 9:32 PM ET on Futures & Crypto Overnight, by Kenji Moonfield.
Topics: Fed.

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ReutersDollar holds losses as markets await Fed minutes, speakers

What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentReuters says the dollar is holding its losses as markets wait on Fed minutes and a batch of Fed speakers.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentJoining me is a lobbyist who works both sides.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPlease welcome Brenda Fitch-Ouellette, managing partner at Both Ways Strategies. Brenda, you represent strong-dollar and weak-dollar clients. How does that work?
Brenda Fitch-OuelletteKenji, it's simple. When the dollar falls, my exporters cheer. When it rises, my importers cheer. I invoice everybody for the cheering.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDude, that's a business model. Reuters says the dollar's soft because everyone's waiting on the Fed. What are your two clients telling you right now?
Brenda Fitch-OuelletteBoth clients are panicking in opposite directions. One sent me a fruit basket. The other sent a legal threat. Same afternoon. Same fruit basket, actually.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWait, they share a basket? That's either collusion or a really cheap pear situation.
Brenda Fitch-OuelletteDon't print that. Look, I only lobby for outcomes. Weak dollar, strong dollar, I wrote both speeches. They're stapled together in my car.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBrenda, the editor's angle is that a weaker dollar might signal rate-cut hopes. That's an opinion, but you've got both speeches.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWhich one do you read first?
Brenda Fitch-OuelletteWhichever one the minutes make sound smarter. Last month I read the wrong one to the wrong room. A man cried. Possibly a ficus.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA ficus, bro? We just did a houseplant lesson. Okay, last question. If the minutes are boring, who do you bill?
Brenda Fitch-OuelletteBoth. Boring is billable twice. I also charge a small fee for the sighing afterward, and honestly, that's where the margin lives.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBrenda Fitch-Ouellette, ladies and gentlemen, the only person getting paid on both sides of a coin flip. We'll have to leave it there.