Bitcoin cracks $28K on CPI amid warning US inflation 'highly elevated'

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) ticked higher around the May 10 Wall Street open as United States inflation data beat expectations.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD responding instantly to the April Consumer Price Index (CPI) print, up 1.7% on the day.

The pair saw local highs of $28,328 on Bitstamp before consolidating immediately above the $28,000 mark.

CPI had come in at 4.9% year-on-year, a shade below the expected 5.0%. This gave a clear signal that U.S. inflation was continuing to decrease, once more in line with predictions from both the Federal Reserve and external sources.

Headline CPI for April came in at 4.9% this morning, which continues the disinflationary trend. pic.twitter.com/e5MResLeKC

“Fed's data dependency kicking off well, strong jobs data and now inflation as expected... pause in June at this stage,” financial commentator Tedtalksmacro wrote in part of a Twitter response.

Tedtalksmacro referenced the impact of CPI and other economic data on Fed interest rate policy, with markets already expecting a pause in rate hikes next month.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly stated that such data prints dictated policy to a significant degree.

A rate hike pause would constitute a boon for risk assets, including crypto, as slackening financial conditions should increase investor appetite for risk.

Data from CME Group's FedWatch tool showed market expectations of a June pause jumping from 80% to 90% on CPI.

While Bitcoin and altcoins made modest gains, however, investment research platform Game of Trades warned that the day’s CPI numbers showed that the U.S. economy was not yet out of the woods.

“The decrease in inflation is mainly driven by the flexible part of the CPI. The sticky part still remains