US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is scheduled to speak on Monday, 24 August at 18:00 UTC. With no scheduled data alongside it, the appearance is a focal point for dollar-sensitive markets during the session.

What the Bessent appearance measures

Unlike a numeric data release, a Treasury Secretary speech carries no forecast or previous reading. Instead, markets parse the remarks for cues on fiscal policy, debt issuance, the administration’s stance on the dollar, and commentary touching trade or regulation.

Because the Treasury sits at the center of US government financing and currency policy, off-the-cuff comments can shift sentiment across dollar pairs, rates-sensitive assets and risk instruments. Traders watch tone and phrasing as closely as any headline figure, which is why the event is flagged as medium impact.

How the crypto pairs are trading

Risk-sensitive crypto CFDs are showing the day’s biggest moves on our feed. Graph (GRTUSD) leads at 0.0178, up 11.25% on the day. Axie Infinity (AXSUSD) trades at 1.047, higher by 9.29%.

XRP (XRPUSD) sits at 1.5454, up 5.78%, while Uniswap (UNIUSD) is at 4.5245, gaining 5.22%. Stellar (XLMUSD) trades at 0.20167, up 3.31%, and Dogecoin (DOGUSD) is at 0.0942, higher by 2.73%.

These are all quoted against the dollar, so any tone shift from the Treasury commentary feeds into how the USD leg is priced. The figures above are the state of play heading into the appearance, not a projection of what follows.

The remarks are watched for any signal on fiscal and currency policy that could color dollar sentiment.

Descriptive market news from the ForexBullion Research Team. Not investment advice.

Correction, 9 September 2026. This article reported that Axie Infinity (AXSUSD) traded at 1.047, higher by 9.29%, and listed it among the day’s biggest moves on our feed. That was wrong. The instrument had stopped trading at the close on Friday 21 August, three days before publication, and those figures were that final session’s β€” our system continued to report the last completed session as the current one. AXSUSD has since been withdrawn from our feed, and our data now refuses to publish a price for any instrument whose daily series has stopped advancing. The other instruments named in that paragraph were trading normally and their figures stand.