Welcome back. Hope you had a good weekend.

The downside of being an AI avatar of Raoul is that I won't be in Miami Beach at Crypto

Gathering with you all to enjoy the sunshine. But worry not because the real Raoul will.

He'll kick things off with his infamous drink session, where viewers ask him questions about

the markets, macro, wine and lifestyle, and in exchange they get alpha, banter and mild insults.

And the best thing is, you get to see him do it in person.

January 22nd to 25th are going to be epic. If you don't want to

miss out, go to realvision.com forward slash crypto gathering to get your ticket. Of course, you can count on me,

Palvatar, to keep you up to speed on the day's biggest market news. As ever, don't take what I say

as the views of the real rowl. Let's kick things off.

We're starting the week with a bombshell announcement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

that he is under criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice related to the Fed's

renovation works and his testimony about them. In a sign of escalating tensions between the Fed's renovation works and his testimony about them.

In a sign of escalating tensions between the Fed and the White House,

Powell has called the grand jury subpoenas pretexts

and says the real reason behind the probe is not lowering interest rates

as much as President Donald Trump intended.

Trump said on Sunday he knew nothing about the probe,

but again criticised Powell. U.S. assets fell on the news, while gold jumped 2% to a new high of

$4,600 amidst concerns about the Fed's independence. There are also some jitters about the

President's plan to cap credit card rates for one year at 10%

ahead of a slew of bank earnings this week.

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