TL;DR
After April’s CPI knowledge got here in at 3.4% (decrease than March’s 3.5%), market gamers went ‘danger on,’ including $300B to the entire crypto market cap in a matter of hours.
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We have been about to open this text with one thing alongside the strains of:
“The market simply shot straight up, but by some means, the search time period ‘whiplash’ didn’t peak on Google traits? We’re simply as shocked as you.”
However in a wierd flip of occasions, that makes us query whether or not or not we’re dwelling in a pc simulation: it did peak 👆
And it is sensible.
On Tuesday, nearly all main crypto charts have been telling us to arrange for a continuation of “choppy-droppy-price-action” (👈 that’s the technical time period) which we’ve been experiencing for the previous month or two…
Then BAM! $300B was added to the entire crypto market cap in a matter of hours.
Right here’s what did it:
April’s Client Value Index (CPI) knowledge was launched (aka: “how rather more costly have on a regular basis gadgets turn out to be prior to now yr” knowledge), and it went down from 3.5% in March to three.4% in April.
And for each month the CPI knowledge lowers → the nearer we get to rate of interest cuts → the much less we pay on loans and credit score repayments → the extra money all of us should spend → the more healthy the economic system turns into.
(That’s the concept no less than).
And in an try to entrance run this (potential) incoming financial uptick, market gamers began pumping cash into riskier belongings, like crypto (which tends to thrive in low rate of interest environments).
This doesn’t imply we’re again in ‘up solely’ mode…however it’s a begin!
We like to see it.
