Bitcoin Holds $80K as Hot CPI Lifts Yields, Hammers Stocks
Core CPI doubled to 0.4% in April and headline hit 3.8% — its fastest pace since May 2023 — flipping Fed-cut bets into a 35% chance of a 2026 rate hike.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
Core CPI doubled to 0.4% in April and headline hit 3.8% — its fastest pace since May 2023 — flipping Fed-cut bets into a 35% chance of a 2026 rate hike.
The fragmentation matters more than any single bill: Poland's crypto market now has to clear four competing legislative tracks, one of which is an outright ban on cryptoasset activity.
US inflation climbed to 3.8% in the latest reading, coming in above consensus forecasts and reigniting concerns that…
The split inside the ECB — Beau backing Qivalis and a public-private euro stablecoin push, Lagarde holding the line on a 2029 CBDC — exposes how fast dollar-pegged stablecoins are reshaping Europe's…
With GameStop’s bid dismissed as neither credible nor attractive and Burry already bailing, the financing math now hinges on the firm’s 4,709 BTC plus a contingent $20B TD Bank debt package.
Headline CPI printed 3.8% YoY, core 2.8% — both above consensus — as shelter and services inflation stayed sticky, and traders promptly pulled forward Fed cut bets.
The price rebound masks an unresolved Hormuz threat: slower oil-flow repair keeps inflation and Fed-tightening risk on the table, and Bitcoin still trades as the macro proxy that gets hit first.
Five labor groups, including AFL-CIO and SEIU, told senators the market structure bill could jeopardize public pensions — while banks lobby over stablecoin-yield provisions.
April CPI ran 3.8% YoY and 0.6% MoM — both above consensus — pushing the Fed Funds corridor to stay pinned at 350-375bps through year-end and dragging risk assets lower across the board.
U.S. inflation climbed to 3.8% year-over-year in April, coming in above consensus forecasts and reigniting fears that…
The headline loss is brutal, but the real read is structural: miners are unprofitable below ~$88K cost and the industry is already moving compute to AI/HPC — CleanSpark is just naming the pivot out…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation — the rail that processed $4.7 quadrillion in securities transactions last year — is wiring Chainlink's data layer into a tokenized collateral platform…
The Maelstrom CIO is positioning for maximum risk, naming HYPE, ZEC, and NEAR as his top altcoin picks, and framing the rally as a credit-driven AI-inflation trade with a geopolitical tailwind.
The 63% bitcoin cut is the headline, but the real signal is the dollar pivot: $70M parked in US reserves for a payments deal while revenue slid 36.8% and net loss nearly tripled.
AFL-CIO, SEIU, and teachers' unions warn the bill would let crypto volatility flow into retirement accounts and public pensions — and the floor vote is Thursday.
April CPI is consensus 3.7% — the largest annual jump since January 2024 — and the stall at $80K-$82K BTC, $1.50 XRP and $97 SOL suggests traders are already hedging the risk-off reaction.
The pause is not a liquidation — it's a rejection of the financing arbitrage that powered the MicroStrategy treasury model, and the Standard Chartered viability threshold sits squarely behind it.
The macro shock — Brent at $107, DXY up 0.4%, and Trump's ceasefire comment — matters more than the 1% BTC dip, because the $76K Tom Lee 'end of bull market' line is now the only nearby support.
The text pairs a ban on passive stablecoin yield with preserved DeFi developer protections and a statutory lane for banks to custody and settle digital assets — the political path now hinges on the…
The Bridgewater founder leans on liquidity, surveillance, and correlation arguments — and Saylor fires back with a "digital capital" counter-frame that reframes transparency as collateral…