US Dollar’s Retreat Allows Cryptocurrencies to Climb Following a short-lived dip below the key level at $20,000 Bitcoin is up 6.50% in the last 24 hours, and technical indicators foreshadow a stronger climb. The Fed’s war on inflation comes with higher interest rates which hurt risky assets such as cryptocurrencies but the divergence in policy […]
Gas Shortage Sends Euro to 20-Year Low For the first time in nearly two decades, the Euro dropped below 0.9900 against the US Dollar, reaching a low at $0.9877 on Monday morning. The greenback benefited late last week from a better than anticipated Non-Farm Payrolls report (forecast 295K; actual 315K) but was mostly up and […]
The FX and Crypto Markets Are Getting Ready to Burst: Non-Farm Payrolls Eyed After dropping into the major S/R at $20,000, Bitcoin started to move at a snail’s pace, without any sense of direction; however, that’s about to change. Today the most important jobs data is due for release at 12:30 pm GMT: the Non-Farm […]
EUR/USD Below Parity Ahead of European Inflation, U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls As largely anticipated, during Friday’s speech, Fed’s Powell adopted a hawkish stance on fighting inflation, which entails that more rate hikes are scheduled. He mentioned that a tight monetary policy will be needed “for some time” and that he expects “some pain” for businesses and […]
Gearing Up for Major Volatility: Fed Chair Powell Due to Speak at Jackson Hole Exactly one week ago, Bitcoin had one of its worst days since June: it dropped from $23,200 to $20,785 on fears that the Fed will continue to tighten its policy. Today, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell will speak about the economic outlook […]
Dollar Bulls Go on a Rampage as Fed Officials Hint Towards More Hikes The Dollar is back with a vengeance, making significant advances against most of its peers, spurred by strong signals that more interest rate hikes are coming. Fed officials, among which James Bullard (St. Louis Fed Chief) and Mary Daly (San Francisco Fed […]
Bitcoin Fails to Surpass Key Hurdle: $25K Sends the Bulls Tumbling Down The apex cryptocurrency has just demonstrated what a textbook bounce at S/R looks like: it barely touched $25,000 and made a quick turn, dipping lower. During last week’s post, we talked about the low momentum and about the fact that the candles have […]
EUR/USD Bounces at Long-Term S/R Level. Is Parity Next? U.S. inflation continues to be the centerpiece that spurs the strongest USD movement and last week this proved true once again. The year-over-year CPI reading dropped from the previous 9.1% to 8.5% and the Core version showed 5.9% while the predicted number was 6.1%. These softer […]
BlackRock Taps into Bitcoin, Launches BTC Private Trust Bitcoin and U.S. inflation are closely tied together and Wednesday this relationship produced significant moves once again. The yearly inflation rate in the United States dropped to 8.5% from the previous 9.1%, while the predicted reading was 8.7%. The Core version remained unchanged at 5.9% but this […]
Choppy Price Action Ahead of U.S. Inflation Data. Friday’s U.S. jobs data came out surprisingly better than anticipated, with all three indicators in the green; the greenback was quick to react, posting gains against its counterparts. The Average Hourly Earnings increased 0.5% (forecast was 0.3%), the Unemployment Rate dropped to 3.5% (forecast was 3.6%), while […]