How The Fed’s Move Could Affect The Crypto Market
The Federal Reserve (Fed) had its January Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday and the crypto market tumbled afterward. The Fed’s move, although hawkish, wasn’t a complete surprise. As the Fed promises to modulate interest rates in order to achieve its goals of raising employment and getting price stability, investors responded with fear. Bond yields are climbing above pre-pandemic levels, thus affecting the traditional and crypto markets. Investors fear the Fed’s focus on getting inflation under control because the markets’ reaction is not a....
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Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market have been in a festive mood in response to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike, sending both Bitcoin and Ethereum climbing in prices. The Fed’s announcement has sent Bitcoin’s price up by 5%. As of this writing, Bitcoin is trading at $22,837, up 7 percent in the last 24 hours. More so, Ethereum’s price also spiked by 11.6%; hitting $1,550, data from Coingecko show, Thursday. In fact, the entire crypto market is on a positive outlook with the total crypto market cap at $1 trillion. Bitcoin was down the past week with its....
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How do the decisions of the United States Federal Reserve affect Bitcoin and the broader crypto markets? “The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss how the United States Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell, influence the crypto market.But first, the Cointelegraph experts analyze the latest news in the market. Will Bitcoin’s uphill battle continue? And will LUNA 2 be able to recover the losses of its predecessor?Next, market analyst Marcel Pechman carefully examines the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH)....
An obscure spread at the heart of US money markets just flashed a bright warning, and crypto traders are pouncing on the signal. The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) printed 4.29% on Wednesday, while the Federal Reserve’s overnight reverse-repo (ON RRP) award rate sat at 4.00%, putting the SOFR–RRP spread at 29 basis points on a non-quarter-end day — an unusually wide gap that points to tightening funding conditions in the plumbing of the financial system. On the same day, the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) was tapped for $6.5 billion — the largest non-quarter-end draw since its....
September is usually a tricky month for Bitcoin. But this year, analysts say things look different. Bitcoin is already holding strong above $116K as the market waits for the Fed’s next move. Traders are calling it the start of ‘Uptober,’ a period when $BTC historically wakes up and pushes higher. Whether the Fed raises, cuts, […]