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Bitcoin Returns to $95K as Christmas Rally Snuffed Out
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2024-12-27 | 5m
With much of the globe celebrating Christmas, bitcoin (BTC) quietly appeared set to retake the $100,000 level after having fallen to below $93,000 just ahead of the holiday.The rally, however, stalled at just above $99,800 as Asia opened for business on Thursday morning and declined rapidly to roughly $95,000 only a few hours later.
U.S. markets are open on Thursday, and stock index futures are pointing to modest early losses; gold and oil are marginally in the green. Crypto's price action over the past 48 hours is surely on very low volume and bitcoin has still more than doubled year-to-date, but perhaps overlooked in declines over the past week is that the tailwind of lower interest rates might have become a headwind.
The 10-year Treasury yield continued to drift upward early Thursday, now at 4.63% and within a few basis points of its 2024 high. The yield is now ahead by nearly 100 basis points since the Federal Reserve slashed benchmark short-term rates by 50 basis points in September.
Macro researcher
Jim Bianco noted that the swift move upward in long-term rates following a Fed rate cut is nearly unprecedented in modern monetary history. "The bond market will keep selling (higher yields) the more the Fed talks about rate cuts in 2025," said Bianco. "If the Fed does not back off the rate-cutting talk, bond yields will go as high as needed to start breaking things, to break inflation."
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Futures Market Updates
As Bitcoin fell below $96K, the longs got hurt again.
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Funding Rate: 0.0105%
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