Bitcoin slips after Fed’s rate of interest choice

• Bitcoin dropped to beneath $100,500 as S&P 500 slipped 2.5%
• The Fed signalled a 50 bps fee lower for 2025, taming threat urge for food.

Bitcoin value fell almost 6% to beneath $100,500 on December 18, 2024 because the broader market traded decrease on the most recent US Federal Reserve rates of interest choice.

BTC drops amid Fed information

Following the Federal Reserve’s 25 bps rate of interest lower and Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech, shares gave up good points. Bitcoin led the crypto market’s adverse response, with buyers doubtless commentary that the central financial institution is not going to lower its benchmark fee as aggressively as anticipated within the subsequent 12 months.

Analysts pointed to Powell’s remarks as a hawkish stance for the Fed and the top of the easing cycle. The S&P 500 noticed a 2.5% drawdown.

2.5% drawdown for the S&P500 and boomers are in shambles pic.twitter.com/r3Vhjl4C8I

— Okay A L E O (@CryptoKaleo) December 18, 2024

BTC value fell sharply to additional transfer away from the latest all-time excessive above $108. Buying and selling close to $100k places Bitcoin on the key zone the place bears have beforehand dominated bulls.

“The US Fed has taken the anticipated motion of chopping rates of interest by 25bps. Nonetheless, the cuts got here with a touch of cautiousness by Jerome Powell. His hinting of solely a 50 bps lower by means of 2025 is barely half of what the general public had been anticipating previous to in the present day’s FOMC assembly,” market intelligence platform Santiment wrote on X.

“Beneath these circumstances, we’re seeing huge drops all through a number of sectors. With Bitcoin and crypto being intently tied to the S&P 500 and different equities markets, costs have retraced on this information,” the platform added.

Other than BTC, different high cash fell. ETH dipped 6% to $3,712 and XRP crashed 10% to $2.36.