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Peter Schiff Says ‘Big Surprise’ Awaits in 2024 — Warns of Crash, Recession, High Inflation Returning With Vengeance
29.12.2023
Economist Peter Schiff has shared some predictions for 2024. “The big surprise in 2024 will not only be that the economy crashes into recession, but that high inflation returns with a vengeance,” he described. The technicals are breaking down for the U.S. Dollar Index, he added...
Bitcoin Price Pressured as Fed Official Says “Premature to Even Be Thinking About” Rate Cuts – Where Next For BTC?
15.12.2023
Source: Pixabay / Michael Wuensch The Bitcoin (BTC) price has come under pressure on Friday, dipping 2% from around $43,000 to the low $42,000s in wake of hawkish commentary from a leading US Federal Reserve monetary policymaker John Williams. Williams, who is the president of the influential...
Bitcoin Bounces Back Above $43,000 After Strong US Retail Sales Data Prompts Brief Price Dip – Here’s Why BTC Could Soon Hit Fresh Yearly Highs
14.12.2023
Stronger-than-expected US November Retail Sales data released earlier on Thursday triggered a sudden near-$1,500 drop in the Bitcoin (BTC) price from just under $43,000 to around $41,500. Seemingly, the data, which showed an unexpected MoM leap in headline and core retail sales last month...
Powell’s Fed Policy Criticized: Experts Claim ‘Phony Economy’ and ‘Credibility Destruction’ Post Rate Decision
14.12.2023
The Federal Reserve’s most recent session of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) wrapped up, leaving interest rates as they were. The market, expecting rate reductions in 2024 and influenced by Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s dovish stance, reacted positively. This uplift was evident...
Bitcoin Price Pumps As Dovish Fed Signals Three Rate Cuts in 2024 – Where Next for BTC?
13.12.2023
Source: Adobe The Bitcoin (BTC) price is pumping on Wednesday amid a dovish reaction across traditional asset markets to the US Federal Reserve’s latest policy announcement. BTC was last up 3.2% on the day and trading in the upper $42,000s, with bulls eyeing a near-term retest of yearly highs...
Fed Observer Jim Grant Foresees Long-Term High Rates as FOMC Meeting Approaches
11.12.2023
Market participants, including both investors and traders, have their attention keenly set on the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, slated for Dec. 13, 2023. There is widespread speculation about whether Fed Chair Jerome Powell will continue to uphold the current elevated...
Financial Giant ING Expects Fed to Cut Rates From Second Quarter Onwards
5.12.2023
Financial giant ING has predicted that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates in the second quarter of next year. “We are currently forecasting 150bp of rate cuts in 2024 with a further 100bp in early 2025,” ING’s chief international economist detailed, noting that U.S. economic data...
Bitcoin Price Pumps to $39,000 As Fed Chair Powell’s Remarks Encourage Rate Cut Bets – Where is BTC Headed Next?
1.12.2023
Source: Pixabay / Michael Wuensch Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s tone on the risks faced by the US economy just shifted in a dovish direction, spurring a pump in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) to new yearly highs at $39,000. Powell noted that risks that the Fed doesn’t raise interest rates enough to combat...
Future of business through the synthesis of blockchain technology, data and AI
28.11.2023
AI and blockchain are emerging technologies and have a very bright future. Both of them are at the cutting edge of innovation
Fed Expected to Take Dovish Stance in 2024 with Over 100 Basis Points of Cuts
27.11.2023
The Fed is expected to cut interest rates by over 100 basis points in 2024 as inflation rates fall, adopting a more dovish monetary policy stance. Image by Monster Ztudio, Adobe Stock. The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to adopt a dovish monetary policy stance in 2024, according to projections...
Adrian Day Warns of ‘Inevitable’ US Recession, Describes it as a ‘Freight Train Heading Towards Us’
15.11.2023
In a recent interview, Adrian Day, CEO of Adrian Day Asset Management, shared his insights, positing a looming economic downturn in the U.S. Day critically analyzed the Federal Reserve’s actions, explaining their expected impacts on the nation’s economy. Adrian Day: Recession Looms Like...
Bitcoin Price Prediction as US Core Inflation Rate is Announced – Is the Bear Market Officially Over?
14.11.2023
Bitcoin (BTC) Chart / Source: TradingView Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at daily lows in the $36,100s in wake of the release of the latest US inflation figures for October, despite the numbers coming in lower than expected across the board. The headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed prices remaining...
Funding rates echo $69K BTC price — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
13.11.2023
Bitcoin funding rates are in classic bull market territory, but can BTC price upside sustain as macro volatility triggers line up?
Crypto Macro Weekly: Ether (ETH) Pumps 11% Above $2,100 as BlackRock Files For Spot Ethereum ETF as Broader Market Rally Continues
10.11.2023
Ethereum Logo Graphic / Source: Adobe Ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency that powers the smart contract-enabled Ethereum blockchain that remains the dominant chain in the DeFi, NFT and broader web3 industries, stole the spotlight from its bigger rival Bitcoin (BTC) this week, and was last up close...
Fed Chair Powell’s Hawkish Tone Rattles Markets as Inflation Concerns Persist
10.11.2023
Amid an uncertain economic landscape, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s recent remarks have amplified the debate on the sufficiency of prevailing interest rates. Even with robust gross domestic product growth, Powell’s address indicated the Fed’s stern stance, as he noted...
Bitcoin Magazine Clashes With Federal Reserve Over Satirical ‘Fednow’ Merchandise
3.11.2023
According to Bitcoin Magazine, a media outlet dedicated to bitcoin news launched in 2012, representatives, including legal counsel, from the U.S. Federal Reserve have expressed concerns regarding the publication’s satirical Fednow merchandise. The Fed’s representatives assert that...
Bitcoin Bounces as US Jobs Market Slows – Where Next for the BTC Price?
3.11.2023
Economic data released earlier on Friday revealed a larger-than-expected slowdown in the US jobs market in October, triggering downside in US bond yields and a pump in the US stock market and price of Bitcoin (BTC), which was last around $34,600. The latest jobs report revealed that the...
JPMorgan CEO: Inflation May Be Stickier Than People Think, Fed May Raise Rates Further
3.11.2023
The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, has warned that inflation may be more persistent than many expect, and the government’s fiscal and monetary stimulus in the past several years has been greater than many realize. Dimon also expects more interest rate hikes from the Fed, stating:...
Bitcoin Blasts Back Above $35,000 as Bulls Regain Control After Fed Holds Interest Rates
1.11.2023
The Bitcoin (BTC) bulls have regained control to push the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization back above $35,000, following a volatile trading session packed with important macro risk events, including the latest policy announcement from the US Federal...
Will weakness in Magnificent 7 stocks spread to Bitcoin price?
31.10.2023
Tech stocks face trillion-dollar losses as bond yields soar, but their $596 billion cash positions favor alternative hedges, including Bitcoin