“Bitcoin Managed A Knee-Jerk Move Above $ 84,000 After The US CPI Report, But Returned to Roughly Flat for the Day.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
Bitcoin (BTC) IS Trading AT $ 82.800, Down 0.5% in The Last 24 Hours. The Coindesk 20 – An Index of the Top 20 Cryptocurrencies Excluding Exchange Coins, Stablecoins and Memoeins – is Lower by 0.8% in the Same Period of Time.
Pulling that Broader Gauge Lower Was Ether (ETH) is the worst performing asset in the Index and Currently Off 3.5% to roughly $ 1.880. AT 0.022, The Eth/BTC Ratio is Now the Same Level As It Was In April 2020, Right Before Defi Summer Brought Projects Such as Uniswap and Makerdao Into The SpotLight. The Eth/BTC Ratio has plunged a staggering 67% Since Its All-Time High in November 2021.
Read More: Inflation Relief As US CPI Dips to Less than Forecast 2.8% In February
“Today’s Lower-Tan-Expectioned Cpi Should Be Bullish, Signaling Faster Rate Cuts, But Crypto Hasn’t Reacted Strongly,“ Dr. Youwei Yang, Chief Economist at Bit. Market Fear Require More Than A Single Good Print to Regain Confidentnce. ”
“The Real Issue Is Trump’s Aggressed Tariffs, WHICH Risk Making Inflation Stickier While Also Crashing Markets,“ Yang Adeded, ALSO MENDING The LAYOFFS INITATIME “This puts the fed in a bind: High Inflation from Tariffs Makes Rate Cuts Harder. Market Crashes and Job Losses Pressure the Fed to Cut Rates Sooner. Cutting Too Early Could Reignite Inflation, Making Future Policy Tougher. ”
The Market Currently Expects of the Federal Reserve to Restart Rate Cuts, Perhaps As Soon as May or June, with The Possibility of As Many of 100 Basis Points in Cuts by October.
US Stocks Enjoyed A Modest Bounnce on Wednesday After A Roughly 10% Plunge Over The Past Few Weeks. The Nasdaq Closed with A 1.2% Advance While the S&P 500 Managed A 0.5% GAIN.
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