Crypto Markets Could Rally As Fed Eyes End to Rate Hikes: Grayscale

Slower inflation may allow the Fed to halt rate hikes, indicating potential recovery for battered crypto markets, says Grayscale.

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Bitcoin and Ethereum Flat as US Rate Hikes Slow Economic Growth

Equities surged despite the U.S. economy recording a lower-than-expected 1.1% annualized growth in the first quarter as interest rate hikes weighed on GDP and the threat of recession abated. The post Bitcoin and Ethereum Flat as US Rate Hikes Slow Economic Growth appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Fed Preview: Crypto Market Sees Smaller Rate Hikes From December but Major Banks Warn 'Slower Doesn't Mean Lower'

Markets are running ahead of themselves in pricing smaller Fed rate hikes and an early end of liquidity tightening, according to major investment banks.

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First Mover Americas: Ether Hits 2.5-Month High as Google Search Shows Peak Interest in 'Ethereum Merge'

Risk Assets Resilient to Faster Rate Hikes, 1994 Cycle Suggests

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Bonds Buffering Equities from Rate Hikes?

Equity valuations remain robust despite prospects of multiple rate hikes amid a flat yield curve beyond the three-year point.

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First Mover Americas: Risk Assets Resilient to Faster Fed Rate Hikes, 1994 Cycle Suggests

Risk Assets Resilient to Faster Rate Hikes, 1994 Cycle Suggests

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Pulls Back After Fed Chair's Comments; Volatility Oversold

Bitcoin (BTC) traded roughly flat on Monday, although the Fed's plan for aggressive rate hikes caused a slight pullback intraday. Volatility sold off in BTC and ETH, but could pick up into next month.

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Highlights March 17: Cryptos in the green, Wall Street higher despite rate hikes

The crypto markets were higher this morning, with the majority of the top 10… The post Highlights March 17: Cryptos in the green, Wall Street higher despite rate hikes appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Bitcoin Soars Past $40K As Markets Brace For An Incoming Fed Rate Hike For First Time Since 2018

Bitcoin exceeded $40,000 after a torrid week that left bulls scratching their heads. The most recent move comes amid reports that rate hikes were in the works.

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Bitcoin Breakout Elusive as Traders Price In 7 Fed Rate Hikes for 2022

The Fed is likely to raise rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, the first hike since 2018.

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Bitcoin Below $39K After EU Vote on Crypto Regulation

Bitcoin (BTC) still faces resistance below $40,000 as traders weigh aftermath of EU cryptocurrency legislation and rate hikes this week from the Fed.

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Factors that can Sway Pace of Rate Hikes

High inflation could cause the Fed to raise rates above expectations, but what if growth and consumer spending slow down?

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How The Latest Macroeconomic Trends Are Impacting Bitcoin

How stocks correlation, Grayscale, Russia, stablecoins, rate hikes and more are impacting the bitcoin price today.

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Five Phase Transitions in Motion

The nature of risk is changing as inflation gives way to rate hikes, the pandemic becomes endemic, and as geopolitical tensions escalate.

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Bitcoin Drops for Third Straight Day as Dollar Hits 21-Month High, US Wages Eyed

A continued uptick in wages would imply more inflation and strengthen the case for rate hikes by the Fed.

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Bitcoin Falls 7% as Russia Invades Ukraine; Experts Say Fed U-Turn on Rate Hikes Unlikely

Some observers said Fed's tightening cycle is likely to be much shallower than expected.

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Is Gold About to Break-Out of Narrow Trading Range?

As expectations for rate hikes peak, gold might be at the cusp of breaking out of its months-long narrow trading range.

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Can Fed Rate Hikes Reverse Shifts in Demand?

A massive shift in demand from services to manufactured goods caused supply chain issues, spiking inflation to 7.5%.

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Higher interest rate concerns put a dampener on Bitcoin, says analyst

Market’s speculation of the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes continues to hinder Bitcoin,… The post Higher interest rate concerns put a dampener on Bitcoin, says analyst appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Bitcoin: The case for and against a 'wild bullish impulse' anytime soon

There's a growing sense of uncertainty within crypto investors concerning the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes in March. The latest Glassnode’s The Week On-Chain newsletter published on 14 FebruaThe post Bitcoin: The case for and against a 'wild bullish impulse' anytime soon appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Glassnode: криптоинвесторы снизили риски в преддверии заседания ФРС

Биткоин-инвесторы сократили объем левериджа и застраховались покупкой пут-опционов в ожидании мартовского заседания ФРС. К таким выводам пришли аналитики Glassnode. Amidst macro headwinds, #Bitcoin investors have opted to close out leverage, buy put option insurance, and de-risk ahead of Fed rate hikes expected in March.

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Fed Rate Hikes: Expectations and Reality

A review of how investor expectations compared with actual Fed rate hikes over the last four tightening cycles.

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Will Fed Rate Hikes Beat Expectations, Again?

The last three times the Fed raised rates, in 1994-95, 2004-06, and 2015-18, it beat expectations as reflected in Fed Funds futures.

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Goldman Sachs Explains Why Bitcoin Is Extremely Vulnerable to Rate Hikes

Reaching mainstream has been the ultimate goal of the Bitcoin community, but increasing the correlation with traditional assets is an ugly downside

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How Bitcoin’s recent sensitivity to interest rate hikes could be bullish

Bitcoin has so far been very sensitive to any decisions coming from the Federal Reserve, experiencing massive sell-offs in an aggressive reaction to inflation. The post How Bitcoin’s recent sensitivity to interest rate hikes could be bullish appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Bitcoin hits $37.5K, stocks recoup losses ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC statement

BTC and stocks bounced back from Monday’s onslaught as analysts speculate that the Fed’s upcoming rate hikes are beginning to be priced into the Bitcoin’s price action.

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UBS Warns of a Crypto Winter, Expects Fed Rate Hikes and Regulation

A recent report by UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, has warned about a crypto winter in which prices drop and may not recover for years. According to the bank’s analysts, several key factors affect cryptocurrencies’ values.

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Bitcoin down 50% amid fear of Fed’s hawkish rate hikes

This year has been nothing short of a blood bath for bitcoin.

The post Bitcoin down 50% amid fear of Fed’s hawkish rate hikes appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Hints at Four 0.25% Rate Hikes, Here's What It Means for Crypto

JPMorgan Chase CEO believes that a series of rate hikes will change the economy as we have known it for the last 13 years

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Crypto Market Forecast: Week of January 10th 2022

A curated weekly summary of forward-focused crypto news that matters. This week, risk markets grapple with possible interest rate hikes, Kazakhstan's miners struggle with an internet blackout and Ethereum's largest layer-2 solution goes offline.

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Bitcoin crash ahead? Expert warns higher inflation could whip BTC price to $30K

The warning appears against the Fed’s intention to tighten its asset-purchasing program rapidly, followed by three rate hikes in 2022.

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Go With The FED, Why Bitcoin Could Benefit From Interest Rate Hikes In 2022

Bitcoin is close of ending its first week of the year in the red, as the crypto market took another blow and sits at critical support. The benchmark crypto records a 7. 3% loss in 24 hours, trading at $43,000 after coming back from the lows near $42,000.

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Will Interest Rate Hikes Be Bad for Bitcoin? Quantum Fintech Weighs In

Harry Yeh has linked Bitcoin price appreciation to dollar devolution

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Yield Curve Scenarios

Could the highly anticipated Fed rate hikes in 2022 flatten or steepen the Treasuries yield curve? Or is there a third possibility?

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Markets Wipe Out Gains While BoE Raises Rates, ECB Promises Generous Support, & BoJ Maintains its Ultra-loose Policy

Bitcoin, crypto, and the stock market have wiped out the gains made on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced that it is doubling the pace of its bond-buying tapering and projects three rate hikes in 2022, which has been in line with market expectations.

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Fed Chair Says, Crypto Is Not A Financial-Stability Concern But An Issue For Those Who Don’t Understand It

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it was doubling the pace of its bond-buying tapering and forecasted three rate hikes in 2022. Following the end of the central bank's two-day policy meeting, in a news conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell also commented on cryptocurrencies, saying he doesn’t view them as a “financial stability concern.

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Bitcoin Price Jumps Towards $50K As Fed Chair Speaks

Bitcoin quickly turned green as the Fed announced a quicker withdrawal of its asset purchasing programs and likely interest rate hikes in 2022.

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Will Bitcoin Catch Up? Stock Market Rallies to New Highs as Biden says Inflation Peaked

With rate hikes, a threat to the crypto bull market, inflation hitting a four-decade high but dropping from last month is seen as positive. The post Will Bitcoin Catch Up? Stock Market Rallies to New Highs as Biden says Inflation Peaked first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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“Fear” in The Crypto Market And Bitcoin’s Correlation With S&P 500 Climbs to Highest Level of 2021

Crypto assets are not really having a good time, with Bitcoin stuck around $56,500 and Ether below $4,300. But crypto assets are not alone in that as speculative stocks aren’t any different as losses picked up in very-high-priced technology names as the bond market started to price in higher odds of rate hikes next year […] The post “Fear” in The Crypto Market And Bitcoin’s Correlation With S&P 500 Climbs to Highest Level of 2021 first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Risk-on Assets Rally on Priced-in Tapering “Later this Month,” But Aggressive Rate Hikes Would Be “Extremely Bearish”

The US Federal Reserve has announced that it will soon begin reducing the speed of its monthly bond purchases. Tapering will start “later this month,” said the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in its post-meeting statement.

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Expectations for Multiple Rate Hikes

The momentum for Fed rate hikes is growing, with investors expecting multiple increases over the next two years.

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Rising Fed Rate Hike Expectations

Expectations are rising for rate hikes amid inflation topping 5% and the winding down of Fed asset purchases soon.

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Angola Hikes Benchmark Interest Rate as Central Bank Attempts to Tame Rising Inflation

The Angolan central bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) recently hiked the country’s benchmark interest rate from 15.5% to a record of 20%. The largely unexpected hike, which is one of the National Bank of Angola (NBA)’s attempts to curb inflation, marks the first time the benchmark rate has been increased since November 2017. Rising Inflation […]

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What the current volatility means for Cardano

Bitcoin's price has once again dropped under $40,000 after the United States Federal Reserve's announcement that two interest rate hikes were penned in for 2023. This downtrend was observed throughoutThe post What the current volatility means for Cardano appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Fed Expects 2 Rate Hikes in 2023, Stock Market Plunges, Powell Anticipates Higher Inflation

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday told the public that it has forwarded the time frame for raising interest rates. “Progress on vaccinations will likely continue to reduce the effects of the public health crisis on the economy, but risks to the economic outlook remain,” the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said in a statement. The […]

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Bitcoin price falls after Fed shifts interest rate hikes forward amid inflation fears

Stock markets and Bitcoin price took a slight hit after the Federal Reserve announced plans to increase interest rates twice in 2023, a tad bit earlier than markets expected.

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A Big Glitch Appears in Bitcoin Bullish Bias: Rising Rate Hikes Bets

A faster-than-anticipated economic recovery in the United States and optimistic labor data signaling growth in both the factor and the service sectors pushed traders to raise their bets on rate hikes sometime next year.

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JPMorgan Forecasts Dismal 1% GDP Growth, Signals Possible Rate Cut

By CCN: The other shoe could be about to drop in the economy. JPMorgan economists in a report predict the second quarter will witness slowed economic growth. They’re expecting U. S. GDP to expand by a measly 1%, lower than their original predictions of 2.

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Maker’s Dai approaches $1 peg following aggressive interest rate hikes and Tether fallout

Interest rates for MakerDAO have exploded to 19. 5 percent over the course of three months to combat its stablecoin Dai from trading below its $1 peg. However, the gap has narrowed over the last three weeks, partially from factors entirely outside of Maker.

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