Fed to Deliver One More 25bps Rate Hike This Year
The dot plot keeps a final quarter-point increase on the table, a hawkish tilt that pressures risk assets and caps hopes of an imminent easing cycle.
Live BTC, ETH, and altcoin price moves, support and resistance levels, breakouts, and chart patterns.
The dot plot keeps a final quarter-point increase on the table, a hawkish tilt that pressures risk assets and caps hopes of an imminent easing cycle.
The unanimous 12–0 vote matters less than the dots: 16 of 18 officials see at least one more hike in 2026, and few see rates below 4% by end-2027.
The setback leaves XRP's treatment intact but shifts the near-term rulebook toward agency guidance, which regulators can revise.
Glassnode flagged the True Market Mean as the line BTC needed to defend. Losing it flips the structure from range-bound to corrective, with the short-term holder cost basis near $70K as the next…
The breakdown comes at the worst possible timing, with thin support under price and a rate decision that could act as the catalyst bulls can't absorb.
The Senate's 49-50 cloture failure wiped out near-term regulatory upside just as 5% Treasury yields and $105 oil squeeze risk assets, putting Warsh's FOMC decision and the $70K 200-day average in…
The move puts Musk's private-space giant at fresh highs on secondary markets, a signal of how institutional appetite for pre-IPO equity keeps tightening.
Ether funds also bled $123M on the day, but the weekly picture splits: BTC products have now seen seven straight days of net outflows while ETH ETFs still hold a positive weekly tally.
A packed macro calendar puts the Fed's rate decision, the dot plot, and Chair Kevin Warsh's press conference at the center of today's risk appetite, with Bitcoin traders watching whether the $75K…
BTC and ETH fell 2% and 4% in lockstep, framing this as a broad market flush rather than an XRP-specific story, with the $1.28-$1.30 band now the line.
The marketing moment meme-coin holders have waited on through years of slippage finally lands, but $DOGE itself launches into a broader crypto pullback sitting near historically bullish consolidation…
The post-cross pullback has historically been 10-15% in confirmed bull cycles and 50-60% when the bear continued; the bounce structure, not the drop, is what decides which analogue is running.
Robinhood Chain hosted half of the day's top six gainers, consistent with a pattern of low-fee retail tooling pulling micro-cap memecoin activity onto the venue.
Retail has dumped ~192K ETH since January while the 10K-100K whale cohort added ~200K through the CLARITY flop and a pre-FOMC pullback.
A Sept. 14 snapshot put rate-hike odds at 85%, while the US failure to advance the Clarity Act left Bitcoin facing tighter monetary policy and unresolved crypto rules.
The setback reaches beyond Ripple, as Brad Garlinghouse framed the legislation as an opportunity for consumers and the broader crypto industry.
One retail wallet's micro-cap timing, not sector flow: isolated trades on thin liquidity can produce trophy returns without signaling anything broader.
The 49-50 cloture failure leaves the SEC's Reg Crypto framework as the industry's only near-term route to regulatory certainty, with the Fed's rate decision now landing on a market already dumping…
The 49-50 procedural loss stung crypto equities far harder than spot tokens, with Coinbase down more than 10% and Circle off 11.4%, though analysts say the rates picture matters more than the bill.
The rapid recovery points to volatility around a psychological level, with $75K in focus as potential support.