A Bloomberg analysis found that cryptocurrency and stock markets have shown a high correlation after the latest set of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. According to analysts, this related movement would be the result of the macroeconomic variables taking control of the markets and should continue in the near term. Not Uncorrelated: Stocks and Cryptocurrency…
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Bitcoin price gave up its recent gains as concerning signals from the US economy continue to weigh on investor sentiment. Bitcoin (BTC) price gained 6% from Oct. 1 to Oct. 2 but after failing to break the $28,500 resistance, the price dropped by 4.5% on the same day. This decline happened because of the disappointing…
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The S&P 500 dropped to a 110-day low as the market digests what “higher for longer” means for stocks. Will Bitcoin begin to chart its own path? On Sept. 20, the Federal Reserve delivered a message that reverberated through financial markets: interest rates are expected to remain at their highest level in over two decades,…
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Bitcoin price is closely linked to several financial assets but the reasons for correlation with certain precious metals and stocks can be quite different. The financial media often points out Bitcoin’s (BTC) correlation to big tech. “Bitcoin is trading like a tech stock” is a common narrative alongside BTC’s often acute inverse-relationship with the United…
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Dan Morehead, founder and managing partner of Pantera Capital, a digital assets investment hedge fund, has predicted an upcoming bull market for cryptocurrency. In Pantera’s latest letter, Morehead states that blockchain-related assets have started to decouple from market indexes and that the time is right for a new crypto rally. Pantera’s Founder Dan Morehead: Blockchain…
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The Dollar Index disconnect from Bitcoin does not necessarily mean that BTC price is about to experience a big rally, historic data suggests. There is a common belief that when the U.S. dollar declines relative to other main global currencies, as measured by the Dollar Strength Index (DXY), the impact on Bitcoin (BTC) is positive,…
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The five-year U.S. Treasury yield reached its highest level in three months, but the typical inverse correlation-based price action with Bitcoin might not work this time. United States government bonds, or Treasurys, have a tremendous influence across all tradeable markets, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). In that sense, risk calculation in finance is relative,…
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Bitcoin (BTC) is now undervalued versus the S&P 500. That’s according to a metric that runs an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression of the relationship between bitcoin and S&P 500 over the last 200 days to estimate of fair value for the Bitcoin price based on the current S&P 500 price. This methodology (an OLS…
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Bitcoin’s correlation to US equity markets just fell to its lowest level in more than a year and a half. That’s according to crypto analytics firm CoinMetrics, who present a chart showing that Bitcoin’s 30-day pearson correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 just fell under 0.20, its lowest level since September 2021. That’s a…
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The positive correlation between the Bitcoin price and US stock prices, which reached a record high in 2022, is fading. The Bitcoin bulls will be hoping that this decoupling bodes well for Bitcoin, given it might mean that the US stock market’s ongoing struggles might be becoming less of a headwind for the world’s largest…
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