- The year 2023 has started full of positivity, with bitcoin (BTC), a pure play on the United States dollar liquidity situation, outshining traditional risk assets with a 40% value input.
- The rally could be obstructed by a temporary value withdrawal as the Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, is probably to be with his unpeaceful script at the time of Wednesday’s post-meeting press conference, experts told a reliable media outlet.
The Fed will start its two-day meeting on January 31 and publicize its rate judgment at 19:00 UTC on February 1. During the press conference, Powell will go through the rate judgment at 19:30 UTC.
Going up by 425 basis points (bps) in 2022 added huge steps of 75bps and 50bps, anticipations are closely focused on the Fed to reduce the rate of hardening to 25 bps on February 1. Defining it in some other way, a 25 basis point rate hike is valued. The focus will be on if Powell accepts the newest softening in inflation and economic activity, strengthening markets’ anticipation for a premature pivot toward soothing.
The luck, although, is piled against such a result, as the newest rally in stocks and relationships and the fall in the United States dollar have smoothened financial situations in the economy for the first time ever since April. That has damaged the Fed’s attempts to conversely uncontrolled value pressures in the economy with harder credit standards.
What Powell can do?
“There is a huge possibility that in the press conference of Powell, he will be not so peaceful and lose economic situations. For that thing, we can witness a healthy short-term downfall in crypto and all risk assets,” the head of treasury at crypto asset management company Wave Financial, Nauman Sheikh stated.
Sheikh also said that the market has run in front of itself in valuing the Fed pivot in spite of replicating alerts by the FED that rates will be “in the sky for a long term.”
Markets have been struggling with the Fed since mid-2022, just to go with a serious message by Fed executives. The latest fall in inflation anticipations has just built-up investor judgment that the central bank will shortly conclude hardening and start cutting rates further in 2023.
Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone, stated economical conditions have not tightened to a point where Powell may inform the area of soothing is “unjustified.”
Source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2023/02/01/powell-to-set-off-healthy-withdrawal-in-bitcoin-experts/