Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1B in Worst Weekly Outflow in 5 Months as Inflation Fears Grip Institutions!

US-listed Bitcoin ETFs suffered their sharpest weekly capital flight since late January, with investors pulling exactly $1 billion from the products over seven days — snapping a six-week streak of consecutive positive inflows that had absorbed roughly $3.4 billion in net flows. Bitcoin's price fell around 3% over the period to $78,074, with the outflow representing approximately 14,000 BTC in net withdrawals.

The primary culprit is a rapidly repriced inflation outlook. Coinbase analysts pointed to hotter-than-expected CPI and PPI prints as the force actively limiting a broader liquidity-driven rally in digital assets. Critically, it is the acceleration in core and core services inflation — measures that strip out volatile food and energy costs — that signals sticky, structural price pressure rather than a temporary shock tied to energy markets.

Ecoinometrics characterized the outflow…