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Crypto Daybook Americas: Robinhood’s Crypto Growth Presages Riot, Strategy Even as Tariffs Hit GDP

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
The impact of President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs is starting to be felt. The U.S. economy contracted for the first time in three years last quarter and stock prices have seen their worst first 100-day performance of a presidential administration since 1974.
Results from trading platform Robinhood also showed markets cooled in the first three months of the year, even as it beat analyst forecasts for both revenue and earnings per share.
It wasn’t alone, major tech companies including Microsoft and Meta beat estimates and, crucially, Robinhood’s revenue from crypto doubled from the year-earlier quarter. That may foreshadow what to look for later today, when Block, Riot Platforms, Strategy and Reddit post results after the closing bell.
“The recent wave of weak macroeconomic data has pointed to both recessionary risks and rising inflation,” James Butterfill, the head of research at CoinShares, told CoinDesk. “Despite this, bitcoin has shown remarkable resilience, outperforming the Nasdaq by 11% since ‘Liberation Day’” on April 2.
Indeed, while first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.3% and major stock indexes post posted losses in last month, bitcoin (BTC) held strong. The largest cryptocurrency rose nearly 15% against the dollar in April as investors started using it as a safe haven, along with gold and the Swiss franc.
To Butterfill, risk assets are now seemingly benefiting from expectations of an earlier-than-expected interest-rate cut.
“Equities and bitcoin appear to have recoupled, both rebounding today on renewed hopes of an imminent interest-rate cut,» he said. «A disappointing payroll figure on Friday — which we see as likely — could be the final nail in the coffin for Powell, paving the way for more dovish policy from the Fed.»
Yet in the cryptocurrency space, there’s more to keep an eye on. Ethereum’s long-awaited Pectra upgrade, which includes improvements to make the network more user-friendly and efficient, is going live on mainnet on May 7.
The upgrade is significant for Ethereum, which has been losing ground to more efficient blockchains including Solana, Base and BNB chain. DeFiLlama data shows total value locked (TVL) on Ethereum’s smart contracts grew just 4% in April, compared with 21% on Solana, and 9.9% on BNB Chain. Base saw a minor contraction.
In the past year, Artemis data shows Ethereum net outflows totaled $3.3 billion, while Base and Solana saw $3.3 billion and $3.2 billion in net inflows, respectively. Still, Ethereum recorded $880 million in net inflows in April, suggesting the trend is reversing ahead of Pectra’s activation.
The trend has, however, taken its toll. The ETH/BTC ratio has dropped to little over 0.19, the lowest level in five years. Stay alert!
What to Watch
- Crypto:
- May 1: Coinbase Asset Management will introduce the Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund (CBYF), which is aimed at non-U.S. investors.
- May 1: Hippo Protocol starts up its own layer-1 blockchain mainnet built on Cosmos SDK and completes a migration from Ethereum’s ERC-20 HPO token to its native HP token, enabling staking and governance.
- May 1, 9 a.m.: Constellation Network (DAG) activates the Tessellation v3 upgrade on its mainnet, introducing delegated staking, node collateral, token locking and new transaction types to enhance network security, scalability and functionality.
- May 1, 11 a.m.: THORChain activates its v3.5 mainnet upgrade, adding the TCY token to convert $200 million in debt into equity. TCY holders earn 10% of network revenue, while native RUNE remains the protocol’s security and governance token. TCY activates May 5.
- May 5, 3 a.m.: IOTA’s Rebased network upgrade starts. Rebased moves IOTA to a new network, boosting capacity to as many as 50,000 transactions per second, offering staking rewards of 10%-15% a year and adding support for MoveVM smart contracts.
- May 5, 11 a.m.: The Crescendo network upgrade goes live on the Kaspa (KAS) mainnet. This upgrade boosts the network’s performance by increasing the block production rate to 10 blocks per second from 1 block per second.
- May 7, 6:05 a.m.: The Pectra hard fork network upgrade will get activated on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet at epoch 364032. Pectra combines two major components: the Prague execution layer hard fork and the Electra consensus layer upgrade.
- Macro
- May 1, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Department of Labor releases unemployment insurance data for the week ended April 26.
- Initial Jobless Claims Est. 224K vs. Prev. 222K
- May 1, 9:30 a.m.: S&P Global releases Canada April purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data.
- Manufacturing PMI Prev. 46.3
- May 1, 9:45 a.m.: S&P Global releases (Final) U.S. April purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data.
- Manufacturing PMI Est. 50.7 vs. Prev. 50.2
- May 1, 10:00 a.m.: Institute for Supply Management (ISM) releases U.S. April economic activity data.
- Manufacturing PMI Est. 48 vs. Prev. 49
- May 2, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases April employment data.
- Nonfarm Payrolls Est. 130K vs. Prev. 228K
- Unemployment Rate Est. 4.2% vs. Prev. 4.2%
- May 2, 9:00 a.m.: S&P Global releases Brazil April purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data.
- Manufacturing PMI Prev. 51.8
- May 2, 11:00 a.m.: S&P Global releases Mexico April purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data.
- Manufacturing PMI Prev. 46.5
- May 1, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Department of Labor releases unemployment insurance data for the week ended April 26.
- Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
Token Events
- Governance votes & calls
- Compound DAO is voting on moving 35,200 COMP (~$1.5 m) into a multisig safe to test selling covered calls on COMP for USDC, lend that USDC in Compound for extra yield, then use the returns to buy back COMP and repeat, targeting roughly 15 % annual gain. Voting ends May 2.
- May 1, 1 p.m.: Wormhole to host an ecosystem call.
- May 2, 3 a.m.: Ontology to host a weekly community update on X spaces.
- May 5, 4 p.m.: Livepeer (LPT) to host a Treasury Talk session on Discord.
- Unlocks
- May 1: Sui (SUI) to unlock 2.28% of its circulating supply worth $261.2 million.
- May 1: ZetaChain (ZETA) to unlock 5.67% of its circulating supply worth $12.31 million.
- May 2: Ethena (ENA) to unlock 0.73% of its circulating supply worth $13.39 million.
- May 7: Kaspa (KAS) to unlock 0.56% of its circulating supply worth $13.96 million.
- May 9: Movement (MOVA) to unlock 2.04% of its circulating supply worth $12.61 million.
- Token Launches
- May 2: Binance to delist Alpaca Finance (ALPACA), PlayDapp (PDA), Viberate (VIB), and Wing Finance (WING).
- May 5: Sonic (S) to be listed on Kraken.
Conferences
CoinDesk’s Consensus is taking place in Toronto on May 14-16. Use code DAYBOOK and save 15% on passes.
- Day 2 of 2: TOKEN2049 (Dubai)
- May 6-7: Financial Times Digital Assets Summit (London)
- May 11-17: Canada Crypto Week (Toronto)
- May 12-13: Dubai FinTech Summit
- May 12-13: Filecoin (FIL) Developer Summit (Toronto)
- May 12-13: Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference (New York)
- May 12-14: ACI’s 9th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Fintech & Emerging Payment Systems (New York)
- May 13: Blockchain Futurist Conference (Toronto)
- May 13: ETHWomen (Toronto)
- May 14-16: CoinDesk’s Consensus 2025 (Toronto)
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa
- Over 3.7 million tokens — or 53% — listed on GeckoTerminal since 2021 have failed, meaning they are no longer actively traded, per a CoinGecko report on Wednesday.
- This year alone, 1.8 million have collapsed.
- That’s nearly half of all dead tokens in the past five years, driven by market turbulence post-Trump inauguration.
- The explosion in token creation, from 428,000 in 2021 to nearly 7 million by 2025, is mainly due to tools like Pump.fun that enable rapid memecoin launches.
- Most failures occurred in 2024 and 2025, as memecoin saturation and speculative hype led to short-lived, low-effort crypto projects flooding the market.
Derivatives Positioning
- Open interest across centralized exchanges has continued its steady climb, reaching $125 billion across all assets in a clear signal of growing speculative activity and market engagement.
- On Binance, the BTC-USDT perpetual order book heatmap reveals the next significant supply zone is at $96.2K, with ask orders totaling 321 BTC. Additionally, liquidation heatmaps show clusters around $96K, suggesting a potential magnet for price action, with liquidation pockets of $58M, $42.7M and $56.1M.
- Notably, the largest liquidation cluster sits at the $93K support, where $76.3M in liquidations are stacked making it a key level to watch for downside volatility.
- Among assets with over $100 million in open interest, the largest week-on-week increases were seen in Virtuals Protocol, MemeFi, Curve, Fartcoin, and Hyperliquid.
- On the funding rate front, MemeFi, Virtuals Protocol and Alchemist AI posted the sharpest increases, signaling elevated long positioning and potential overheating in sentiment.
Market Movements:
- BTC is up 1.76% from 4 p.m. ET Wednesday at $96,305.26 (24hrs: +1.49%)
- ETH is up 2.37% at $1,838.40 (24hrs: +2.03%)
- CoinDesk 20 is up 1.64% at 2,787.00 (24hrs: +1.22%)
- Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is down 29 bps at 2.67%
- BTC funding rate is at 0.0078% (1.0416% annualized) on Binance
- DXY is up 0.31% at 99.81
- Gold is down 2.01% at $3,221.46/oz
- Silver is down 1.32% at $32.14/oz
- Nikkei 225 closed +1.13% at 36,452.30
- Hang Seng closed +0.51% at 22,119.41
- FTSE is unchanged at 8,494.81
- Euro Stoxx 50 closed unchanged at 5,160.22
- DJIA closed on Wednesday +0.35% at 40,669.36
- S&P 500 closed +0.15% at 5,569.06
- Nasdaq closed unchanged at 17,446.34
- S&P/TSX Composite Index closed -0.13% at 24,841.68
- S&P 40 Latin America closed -0.73% at 2,529.66
- U.S. 10-year Treasury rate is up 4 bps at 4.17%
- E-mini S&P 500 futures are down 1.23% at 5,655.75
- E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 1.73% at 20,002.75
- E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are up 0.83% at 41,109.00
Bitcoin Stats
- BTC Dominance: 64.57 (0.10%)
- Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.01914 (0.47%)
- Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 850 EH/s
- Hashprice (spot): $49.24
- Total Fees: 6.59 BTC / $630,313.73
- CME Futures Open Interest: 133,905 BTC
- BTC priced in gold: 29.6 oz
- BTC vs gold market cap: 8.40%
Technical Analysis
- After last week’s explosive rally, bitcoin is consolidating in a low-timeframe range between $93,000 and $95,600.
- While yesterday’s U.S. GDP release briefly triggered downside pressure, the price quickly recovered, and BTC is holding above the yearly open, signaling underlying strength.
- On the longer time frame, bitcoin remains within a supply zone, yet with a recent hourly candle closing decisively above local resistance, there’s a suggestion of a potential continuation of the upward grind.
- If momentum persists, the next key area of interest lies between $96,000 and $98,000.
Crypto Equities
- Strategy (MSTR): closed on Wednesday at $380.11 (-0.35%), up 3.1% at $391.85 in pre-market
- Coinbase Global (COIN): closed at $202.89 (-1.57%), up 2.89% at $208.75
- Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed at $21.92 (+3.94%)
- MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $13.37 (-5.98%), up 3.52% at $13.87
- Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $7.24 (-2.43%), up 3.87% at $7.52
- Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $8.10 (-2.29%), up 5.80% at $8.57
- CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $8.17 (-3.2%), up 4.90% at $8.57
- CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $13.68 (-3.59%)
- Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $32.33 (-4.83%), up 3.93% at $33.60
- Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed at $39.04 (-4.71%), up 1.82% at $39.75
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
- Daily net flow: -$56.3 million
- Cumulative net flows: $39.11 billion
- Total BTC holdings ~ 1.15 million
Spot ETH ETFs
- Daily net flow: -$2.3 million
- Cumulative net flows: $2.50 billion
- Total ETH holdings ~ 3.45 million
Source: Farside Investors
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
- Over the past 12 months, the supply of stablecoins has been rapidly increasing on Tron and Ethereum, data from The Tie show.
- Optimism and Avalanche, both Ethereum layer-2 networks, have seen a decline in favor of those layer 1s.
While You Were Sleeping
- Sam Altman’s World Crypto Project Launches in U.S. With Eye-Scanning Orbs in 6 Cities (CoinDesk): World plans to deploy 7,500 eye-scanning devices across the U.S. this year, and people who use them to verify their identity will receive the project’s WLD token.
- U.S. and Ukraine Sign Landmark Minerals Deal After Months of Fraught Negotiations (CNBC): In return for favored access to Ukraine’s natural resources, Washington pledged reconstruction support, with Treasury Secretary Bessent calling the deal a signal of U.S. commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty and peace.
- Bank of Japan Slashes Growth Forecast as Trade War Hits (The Wall Street Journal): Japan’s central bank held rates at 0.5% and cut its growth outlook to 0.5% for fiscal 2025 and 0.7% for fiscal 2026.
- Gold Shows Signs of Consolidation as Investment Eases, but Trump Looms (Reuters): Gold prices have dipped from record highs despite surging investment, as central-bank buying and investors grew hopeful Trump may ease global trade tensions.
- How India and Pakistan’s Military, Nuclear Arsenals Stack Up (Bloomberg): After last week’s deadly Kashmir attack, India’s prime minister faces pressure to respond, and while analysts see full-scale war as unlikely, limited military conflict remains a possibility.
- Mesh Adds Apple Pay to Let Shoppers Spend Crypto, Settle in Stablecoins (CoinDesk): The feature aims to close the so-called last-mile gap that has stalled mass crypto adoption in payments, co-founder and CEO Bam Azizi said.
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AI, Mining News: GPU Gold Rush: Why Bitcoin Miners Are Powering AI’s Expansion

When Core Scientific signed a $3.5 billion deal to host artificial intelligence (AI) data centers earlier this year, it wasn’t chasing the next crypto token — it was chasing a steadier paycheck. Once known for its vast fleets of bitcoin mining rigs, the company is now part of a growing trend: converting energy-intensive mining operations into high-performance AI facilities.
Bitcoin miners like Core, Hut 8 (HUT) and TeraWulf (WULF) are swapping ASIC machines — the dedicated bitcoin mining computer — for GPU clusters, driven by the lure of AI’s explosive growth and the harsh economics of crypto mining.
Power play
It’s no secret that bitcoin mining requires an extensive amount of energy, which is the biggest cost of minting a new digital asset.
Back in the 2021 bull run, when the Bitcoin network’s hashrate and difficulty were low, miners were making out like bandits with margins as much as 90%. Then came the brutal crypto winter and the halving event, which slashed the mining reward in half. In 2025, with surging hashrate and energy prices, miners are now struggling to survive with razor-thin margins.
However, the need for power—the biggest input cost—became a blessing in disguise for these miners, who needed a different strategy to diversify their revenue sources.
Due to rising competition for mining, the miners continued to procure more machines to stay afloat, and with it came the need for more megawatts of electricity at a cheaper price. Miners invested heavily in securing these low-cost energy sources, such as hydroelectric or stranded natural gas sites, and developed expertise in managing high-density cooling and electrical systems—skills honed during the crypto boom of the early 2020s.
This is what captured the attention of AI and cloud computing firms. While bitcoin relies on specialized ASICs, AI thrives on versatile GPUs like Nvidia’s H100 series, which require similar high-power environments but for parallel processing tasks in machine learning. Instead of building out data centers from scratch, taking over mining infrastructure, which already has power ready, became a faster way to grow an increasing appetite for AI-related infrastructure.
Essentially, these miners aren’t just pivoting—they’re retrofitting.
The cooling systems, low-cost energy contracts, and power-dense infrastructure they built during the crypto boom now serve a new purpose: feeding the AI models of companies like OpenAI and Google.
Firms like Crusoe Energy sold off mining assets to focus solely on AI, deploying GPU clusters in remote, energy-rich locations that mirror the decentralized ethos of crypto but now fuel centralized AI hyperscalers.
Terraforming AI
Bitcoin mining has effectively «terraformed» the terrain for AI compute by building out scalable, power-efficient infrastructure that AI desperately needs.
As Nicholas Gregory, Board Director at Fragrant Prosperity, noted, «It can be argued bitcoin paved the way for digital dollar payments as can be seen with USDT/Tether. It also looks like bitcoin terraformed data centres for AI/GPU compute.»
This pre-existing «terraforming» allows miners to retrofit facilities quickly, often in under a year, compared to the multi-year timelines for traditional data center builds. Firms like Crusoe Energy sold off mining assets to focus solely on AI, deploying GPU clusters in remote, energy-rich locations that mirror the decentralized ethos of crypto but now fuel centralized AI hyperscalers.
Higher returns
In practice, it means miners can flip a facility in less than a year—far faster than the multi-year timeline of a new data center.
But AI isn’t a cheap upgrade.
Bitcoin mining setups are relatively modest, with costs ranging from $300,000 to $800,000 per megawatt (MW) excluding ASICs, allowing for quick scalability in response to market cycles. Meanwhile, AI infrastructure demands significantly higher capex due to the need for advanced liquid cooling, redundant power systems, and the GPUs themselves, which can cost tens of thousands per unit and face global supply shortages. Despite the steeper upfront costs, AI offers miners up to 25 times more revenue per kilowatt-hour than bitcoin mining, making the pivot economically compelling amid rising energy prices and declining crypto profitability.
A niche industry worth billions
As AI continues to surge and crypto profits tighten, bitcoin mining could become a niche game—one reserved for energy-rich regions or highly efficient players, especially as the next in 2028 could render many operations unprofitable without breakthroughs in efficiency or energy costs.
While projections show the global crypto mining market growing to $3.3 billion by 2030, at a modest 6.9% CAGR, the billions would be overshadowed by AI’s exponential expansion. According to KBV Research, the global AI in mining market is projected to reach $435.94 billion by 2032, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.6%.
With investors already seeing dollar signs in this shift, the broader trend suggests the future is either a hybrid or a full conversion to AI, where stable contracts with hyperscalers promise longevity over crypto’s boom-bust cycles.
This evolution not only repurposes idle assets but also underscores how yesterday’s crypto frontiers are forging tomorrow’s AI empires.
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Bitcoin Climbs as Economy Cracks — Is it Bullish or Bearish?

Bitcoin (BTC) is about 4% higher than it was a week ago—good news for the digital asset but bad news for the economy.
The recent negative tone of the economic data points from last week raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates on Wednesday, making riskier assets such as stocks and bitcoin more attractive.
Let’s recap the data that backs up that thesis.
The most important one, the U.S. CPI figures, came out on Thursday. The headline rate was slightly higher than expected, a sign inflation might be stickier than anticipated.
Before that, we had Tuesday’s revisions to job data. The world’s largest economy created almost 1 million fewer jobs than reported in the year ended March, the largest downward revision in the country’s history.
The figures followed the much-watched monthly jobs report, which was released the previous Friday. The U.S. added just 22,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rising to 4.3%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. Initial jobless claims rose 27,000 to 263,000 — the highest since October 2021.
Higher inflation and fewer jobs are not great for the U.S. economy, so it’s no surprise that the word «stagflation» is starting to creep back into macroeconomic commentary.
Against this backdrop, bitcoin—considered a risk asset by Wall Street—continued grinding higher, topping $116,000 on Friday and almost closing the CME futures gap at 117,300 from August.
Not a surprise, as traders are also bidding up the biggest risk assets: equities. Just take a look at the S&P 500 index, which closed at a record for the second day on the hope of a rate cut.
So how should traders think about BTC’s price chart?
To this chart enthusiast, price action remains constructive, with higher lows forming from the September bottom of $107,500. The 200-day moving average has climbed to $102,083, while the Short-Term Holder Realized Price — often used as support in bull markets — rose to a record $109,668.
Bitcoin-linked stocks: A mixed bag
However, bitcoin’s weekly positive price action didn’t help Strategy (MSTR), the largest of the bitcoin treasury companies, whose shares were about flat for the week. Its rivals performed better: MARA Holdings (MARA) 7% and XXI (CEP) 4%.
Strategy (MSTR) has underperformed bitcoin year-to-date and continues to hover below its 200-day moving average, currently $355. At Thursday’s close of $326, it’s testing a key long-term support level seen back in September 2024 and April 2025.
The company’s mNAV premium has compressed to below 1.5x when accounting for outstanding convertible debt and preferred stock, or roughly 1.3x based solely on equity value.
Preferred stock issuance remains muted, with only $17 million tapped across STRK and STRF this week, meaning that the bulk of at-the-money issuance is still flowing through common shares. According to the company, options are now listed and trading for all four perpetual preferred stocks, a development that could provide additional yield on the dividend.
Bullish catalysts for crypto stocks?
The CME’s FedWatch tool shows traders expect a 25 basis-point U.S. interest-rate cut in September and have priced in a total of three rate cuts by year-end.
That’s a sign risk sentiment could tilt back toward growth and crypto-linked equities, underlined by the 10-year U.S. Treasury briefly breaking below 4% this week.
Still, the dollar index (DXY) continues to hold multiyear support, a potential inflection point worth watching.
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Fed’s Sept. 17 Rate Cut Could Spark Short-Term Jitters but Supercharge Bitcoin, Gold and Stocks Long Term

Investors are counting down to the Federal Reserve’s Sept. 17 meeting, where markets expect a quarter-point rate cut that could trigger short-term volatility but potentially fuel longer-term gains across risk assets.
The economic backdrop highlights the Fed’s delicate balancing act.
According to the latest CPI report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, lifting the annual CPI rate to 2.9% from 2.7% in July, as shelter, food, and gasoline pushed costs higher. Core CPI also climbed 0.3%, extending its steady pace of recent months.
Producer prices told a similar story: per the latest PPI report released on Wednesday, the headline PPI index slipped 0.1% in August but remained 2.6% higher than a year earlier, while core PPI advanced 2.8%, the largest yearly increase since March. Together, the reports underscore stubborn inflationary pressure even as growth slows.
The labor market has softened further.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 22,000 in August, with federal government and energy sector job losses offsetting modest gains in health care. Unemployment held at 4.3%, while labor force participation remained stuck at 62.3%.
Revisions showed June and July job growth was weaker than initially reported, reinforcing signs of cooling momentum. Average hourly earnings still rose 3.7% year over year, keeping wage pressures alive.
Bond markets have adjusted accordingly. The 2-year Treasury yield sits at 3.56%, while the 10-year is at 4.07%, leaving the curve modestly inverted. Futures traders see a 93% chance of a 25 basis point cut, according to CME FedWatch.
If the Fed limits its move to just 25 bps, investors may react with a “buy the rumor, sell the news” response, since markets have already priced in relief.
Equities are testing record levels.
Equities are testing record levels. The S&P 500 closed Friday at 6,584 after rising 1.6% for the week, its best since early August. The index’s one-month chart shows a strong rebound from its late-August pullback, underscoring bullish sentiment heading into Fed week.
The Nasdaq Composite also notched five straight record highs, ending at 22,141, powered by gains in megacap tech stocks, while the Dow slipped below 46,000 but still booked a weekly advance.
Crypto and commodities have rallied alongside.
Bitcoin is trading at $115,234, below its Aug. 14 all-time high near $124,000 but still firmly higher in 2025, with the global crypto market cap now $4.14 trillion.
Gold has surged to $3,643 per ounce, near record highs, with its one-month chart showing a steady upward trajectory as investors price in lower real yields and seek inflation hedges.
Gold has climbed steadily toward record highs, while bitcoin has consolidated below its August peak, reflecting ongoing demand for alternative stores of value.
Historical precedent supports the cautious optimism.
Analysis from the Kobeissi Letter — reported in an X thread posted Saturday — citing Carson Research, shows that in 20 of 20 prior cases since 1980 where the Fed cut rates within 2% of S&P 500 all-time highs, the index was higher one year later, averaging gains of nearly 14%.
The shorter term is less predictable: in 11 of those 22 instances, stocks fell in the month following the cut. Kobeissi argues this time could follow a similar pattern — initial turbulence followed by longer-term gains as rate relief amplifies the momentum behind assets like equities, bitcoin, and gold.
The broader setup explains why traders are watching the Sept. 17 announcement closely.
Cutting rates while inflation edges higher and stocks hover at records risks denting credibility, yet staying on hold could spook markets that have already priced in easing. Either way, the Fed’s message on growth, inflation, and its policy outlook will likely shape the trajectory of markets for months to come.
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