The Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, has approved rules which would ban senior officials at the Federal Reserve from purchasing and holding cryptocurrencies and other investments. In a Friday announcement, the FOMC said that starting on May 1, senior Federal Reserve officials already working at the agency would have one year to “dispose of all impermissible holdings,” while new officials would have six months to do so. The new rules specify that Fed senior officials, which include Reserve Bank first vice presidents and research directors, FOMC staff officers, the System Open Market Account manager and deputy manager, Board division …

Analysts and pundits will scramble to find some angle to explain intra-day price action whenever important economic numbers are published and this practice is commonplace in the crypto sector. When the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 7.5% increase in the consumer price index (CPI) on Feb. 10, traders rushed to find some connection to the crypto price action. However, historical correlation data shows investors should actually closely scrutinize whether there is even a relation between Bitcoin (BTC) and major economic indicators. General investment advice would suggest that traders ignore the intraday movements, especially considering that most assets …

Bitcoin (BTC) bulls have good reason to celebrate the 22% gain in the past week. The price is pushing toward $46,000 and to the surprise of many, the $43,000 level held steady despite the volatility caused by the United States inflation data released on Feb.10. There have been mixed feelings on the macroeconomic side. For example, retail sales in the Eurozone disappointed on Feb. 4 when the figure showed a 2.0% year-on-year growth versus the 5.1% expectation. while the United States nonfarm payroll abruptly showed a 467,000 jobs increase. Investors are clearly increasingly concerned about corporate earnings despite the stronger …

Bitcoin (BTC) hovered around $44,000 on Feb. 9 as a modest uptick towards the Wall Street open provided relief for support levels. Melt-up or breakdown? Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD acting in the range defined in recent days without significant downside pressure. Circling $44,000, traders were mostly preoccupied with a potential retracement, this having the potential to wipe out practically all recent progress. "Now that we are at monthly resistance we may see a pullback. Even if we do, a higher low to 38-40k would be 'healthy' followed by continuation to 50k+ and a reclamation of …

Bitcoin (BTC) is in a fighting mood this week as the weekly close buoys bulls' cause and wipes out several weeks of downside — can it continue higher? After challenging $42,000 over the weekend, there was a cautious sense of optimism as higher levels remained in play. Sunday saw a fresh push, with overnight progress attacking $43,000 before fresh consolidation. With Monday's Wall Street open primed to deliver more of the turbulence in big tech stocks seen late last week, the environment for crypto traders is an interesting one in February. With its notable positive correlation, Bitcoin is thus sensitive …

Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) looks poised to hit $3,500 in the coming sessions as it reclaimed a historically strong support level on Feb. 5. Ethereum price back above key trendline ETH price rising above its 50-week exponential moving average (50-week EMA; the red wave in the chart below) means the price also inched above $3,000, a psychological support level that may serve as the ground for Ether's next leg up. The 50-week EMA was instrumental in maintaining Ether's bullish bias across 2020 and 2021. For instance, it served as a strong accumulation zone during the market correction in the …

Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $40,000 for the first time two weeks during Feb. 4 as Wall Street volatility proved a boon for BTC bulls. Liquidations mount for BTC shorts Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD suddenly jumping past the $40,000 Friday, just two hours after the Wall Street open produced rapid gains. At the time of writing, the pair was up $3,000 in two hours — an unexpectedly strong performance, which naturally caused short sellers significant pain. According to on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass, BTC liquidations were $50 million over the most recent four-hour period, with cross-crypto liquidations …

Bitcoin (BTC) kept investors guessing with tech stocks as Wall Street opened on Feb. 4, circling $38,000. Stocks continue volatility Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed a ranging overnight period for BTC/USD, bulls hoping for clearer validation of recent gains. After 15% daily gains the day before, Amazon (AMZN) continued its uptrend Friday, jumping 10% at the open, while embattled Meta (FB) dipped further. In what has become an increasing focus of attention among analysts, curiously volatile tech stocks thus showed few signs of steadying at the opening bell. Bitcoin, after losing $800 in the hour beforehand, thus …

Investor-focused social media platform Stocktwits, which gained popularity during last year’s ‘retail short squeeze’ frenzy involving GameStop and AMCTheaters, rolled out its own crypto trading services on Thursday. Stocktwits has partnered with FTX.US to carry out its crypto trading services and is set to launch US equity trading next quarter. The firm further looks to expand its trading services portfolio by offering crypto derivatives trading and other asset classes in the coming months. Big day here at Stocktwits We're excited to share the launch of our fully integrated crypto trading, powered by @FTX_US, right in our iOS app! Update your …

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, saw the largest single-day slide in market value for a U.S. company ever with a 26% fall in share prices on Thursday after the tech giant revealed disappointing earnings and a decline in daily active users. Meta famously changed its name from Facebook in late 2021, to signal its plans to focus on the Metaverse, and its struggles have coincided with double-digit percentage gains for its decentralized competitors The Sandbox and Decentraland. Meta reported $33.67 billion worth of total revenue for Q4 2021, compared to $28 billion the year prior. However, its net …

Bitcoin (BTC) recovered above $37,000 on Feb. 3 after a stocks rout took the wind out of bulls' latest attempt to crack $40,000 resistance. "Extraordinary moves" for stocks Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD staying lower after briefly hitting $36,650 on Bitstamp Wednesday. The weakness followed shock losses for U.S. equities at the Wall Street open on Wednesday, with major names such as PayPal shedding huge portions of their value after underwhelming performance reports. Major stocks have been experiencing extraordinary moves post earnings after hours this season Netflix -22% Apple +7% Google +11% Paypal -20% Facebook -22% …

Bitcoin (BTC) fell on the Wall Street open on Feb. 2 as another tech stock rout panicked traders. Bitcoin: "Macro FUD is driving all" Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked BTC/USD as it dipped below $38,000 as Wall Street began, giving back half of the gains secured on Monday. At the time of writing, the pair traded near $37,600 as tech stocks took a beating. These were led by PayPal, shares in which shed nearly 25% after the company reported missed earnings targets. Data from Bloomberg showed the extent to which early pandemic gains have been wiped out …