Trump Says US Gas Prices Will Fall
Softer fuel costs could ease headline inflation and support household spending, though crude oil and refining conditions remain key drivers of pump prices.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
Softer fuel costs could ease headline inflation and support household spending, though crude oil and refining conditions remain key drivers of pump prices.
A nearly 20-basis-point jump in the 10-year yield is pressuring both crypto and equities, putting Thursday’s U.S. data and Fed speakers in focus.
Rising yields are tightening financial conditions across risk assets, while derivatives data points to long unwinding rather than a fresh wave of short bets.
A stronger dollar and Treasury yields at multi-year highs are tightening financial conditions, putting pressure on risk assets while investors reassess the path for U.S. rates.
The rate relationship is weak over longer windows, but a 21% jump in Treasury volatility shows how quickly risk aversion can hit BTC.
The support test comes as ETF inflows persist, leaving bond yields and Bitcoin’s next daily closes to determine whether $77,000 or $96,700 becomes the next key level.
Ether also fell about 2%, while the Fear & Greed Index remained in Greed territory, leaving a mixed picture beneath the market-wide pullback.
A 15-basis-point daily jump in the 10-year yield, stronger U.S. business activity and weak Treasury auction demand raised pressure on risk assets ahead of a $14B options expiry.
The extension keeps a pause in US-China trade tensions in place through Jan. 10, giving markets a longer window without a fresh escalation deadline.
Stronger US growth and renewed cost pressures lifted bond yields, forcing crypto traders to unwind leveraged long positions as the rebound lost its short-covering tailwind.
The announcement points to a more defined US framework for digital-asset market structure, a key test of whether regulatory clarity can support wider institutional participation.
Higher government-bond yields tighten financial conditions, raise the hurdle for risk assets and give investors a more competitive alternative to stocks and crypto.
Markets are repricing the path for rates, with swaps fully reflecting three more Fed hikes and hedging for a fourth.
The operation puts long-dated Treasury liquidity in focus while highlighting the government's approach to managing its debt profile.
The proposal would shift Treasury cash into overnight repo, but no program exists and any Bitcoin effect depends on lending, reserves and funding rates.
A last-minute tripling of Thursday's operation signals the Treasury is actively managing duration supply, a move with direct implications for long-end yields and risk-asset liquidity.
The move would extend FedNow beyond domestic rails for the first time, putting the Fed's real-time infrastructure in direct competition with correspondent banking and emerging crypto payment…
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has publicly opposed the measure, warning it could backfire by forcing refiners to cut production and push prices even higher.
Huang's pushback targets the credibility gap between scientific credentials and speculative AI risk claims, a tension that shapes public policy and investor sentiment around the sector.
15 endowments, pensions, sovereign funds and family offices told Bitwise they held their crypto allocations through the 2025–26 crash, and several added.