Bitcoin price holds $29K as US PCE data sparks 90% Fed rate hike bets
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed choppy at the April 28 Wall Street open while United States macro data conformed to expectations.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD fluctuating around the $29,000 mark on Bitstamp.
U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index data, tipped as the macro event of the week, failed to deliver a performance catalyst as numbers broadly conformed to what markets had already priced in.
“The trend is our friend, however core sticky for now - hovering at 4.6% since December,” financial commentator Tedtalksmacro responded, adding in Twitter comments that the latest numbers were “Overall nothing to shock the market.”
U.S. equities thus showed little movement at the open, while for Bitcoin, Binance order book data showed modest bid liquidity moving toward spot price, compressing potential volatility.
Here's how the #BTC order book is setup ahead of the report. #FireCharts pic.twitter.com/7sCpVP5mKU
Attention increasingly focused on the macro events of the week coming, these headlined by the Federal Reserve interest rate decision.
As noted by Financial commentary resource, The Kobeissi Letter, already strong odds of a further rate hike only gained momentum on the back of the PCE print.
“Interestingly, odds for another 25 bps rate hike in June are building, up to 28%,” part of Twitter analysis stated.
According to CME Group’s FedWatch Tool, a 0.25% rate hike was a 90% certainty at the time of writing, up 5% versus the day prior.
With little certainty in BTC price action, meanwhile, traders focused on the longer-term trend.
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