
The largest digital asset was down more than 7% for the seven-day period through 2.50pm Sunday in New York, the biggest such drop since September. A wider crypto market gauge, encompassing smaller tokens such as Ether and meme-crowd favourite Dogecoin, suffered a sharper decline of about 10%.
The Fed on Wednesday delivered a third straight interest-rate cut while signaling a slower pace of monetary easing next year to keep inflation in check, sending global stocks into a tailspin.
The hawkish pivot also damped the speculative spirits unleashed in the crypto market by Trump’s pledge of friendly regulations and his backing for a national Bitcoin stockpile.
The original cryptocurrency changed hands at about US$95,000, about US$13,000 below the record high set on Dec 17. The token is up more than 40% since the presidential election on Nov. 5.
Choppy price action near term ahead of a “bullish trajectory” into the first quarter of 2025 is still the “most likely scenario,” David Lawant, head of research at crypto prime broker FalconX, wrote in a note.
Lawant said a “low-liquidity environment may bring more volatility as we enter into the final days of the year, especially because on Dec 27 crypto is likely going to see the biggest options expiry event of its history.”
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