Bitcoin fell Monday morning in Asia to trade below US$26,300. Ether also dipped and remained below the US$1,600 mark. All other top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies were down. Toncoin led the losers with a slide of over 4% over the past 24 hours. The retreat in cryptos follows the U.S. Federal Reserve’s hawkish policy stance at its September meeting. Although it paused interest hikes, the Fed signalled another raise to come by the end of the year, with rates to remain higher for longer than anticipated. U.S. stock futures were up during early morning trading in Asia. All three major U.S. indexes closed lower on Friday for a week of losses.
Bitcoin dropped 1.22% in the last 24 hours to US$26,252.57 as of 07:40 a.m. in Hong Kong, according to CoinMarketCap data. The world’s largest cryptocurrency posted a weekly loss of 0.91%. It was hovering above US$26,500 over the weekend but lost the support line early Monday morning.
“Overall, the trend is down and stays bearish,” Markus Thielen, head of research and strategy at digital asset service platform Matrixport, wrote in a report Monday.
As Bitcoin failed to break its 50-day moving average of US$26,876, more downward movement is expected.
“If Bitcoin trades below US$26,000 then the market might attempt another break lower,” Thielen said. He added that “October tends to be seasonal bullish for Bitcoin, but we would stay cautious without a break above its 50d MA.”
Ether dipped 0.86% to US$1,579.12, trading 2.52% lower for the week. The world’s second largest cryptocurrency fell below the US$1,600 support level for the first time since Thursday.
“We mostly worry about Ethereum as weak fundamentals plus a lack of hype around the EIP-4844 upgrade (which should come sometime in Q4 2023) could make the blockchain slowly obsolete,” said Thielen.
“Ethereum’s failure to rally above US$1,650 is of the utmost concern as a break lower could have major implications for the altcoin sentiment,” Thielen added.
EIP-4844, also known as the Ethereum Cancun Upgrade, is a proposed Ethereum upgrade that aims to improve the speed and cost-effectiveness of the Ethereum network.
The average fee on the Ethereum blockchain dropped to around US$1.15 per transaction on Saturday, the lowest level since December 2022, according to blockchain intelligence firm Santiment.
🤑 #Ethereum network fees have dropped down to its lowest level of 2023, at just $1.15 per transaction. Historically, we see utility begin rising as $ETH becomes more affordable to circulate. Increased utility can then lead to recovering market cap levels. https://t.co/MpOLfMYKUp pic.twitter.com/JI8ZLhmb4p
— Santiment (@santimentfeed) September 23, 2023
“Historically, we see utility begin rising as $ETH becomes more affordable to circulate. Increased utility can then lead to recovering market cap levels,” wrote Santiment in a Saturday Twitter post.
All other top 10 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies posted losses for the past 24 hours. Toncoin led the losers, falling 4.22% to US$2.20 for a weekly loss of 3.98%. But the native token of the Open Network (TON) still posted a monthly rise of more than 50%
The total crypto market capitalization dropped 1.0% in the past 24 hours to US$1.04 trillion, while trading volume edged up 8.42% to US$17.64 billion.
U.S. stock futures were trading higher as of 09:50 a.m. in Hong Kong. Wall Street closed lower on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average leading the losers with a 0.31% drop.
All three major U.S. indexes closed the week lower. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq dropped 2.93% and 3.62% respectively, both registering their largest weekly declines since March.
Most major Asian stock indexes were down Thursday morning. China’s Shanghai Composite, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, and South Korea’s Kospi all dropped. The Hang Seng led the losses with a 0.99% decline while Japan’s Nikkei was up 0.61%.
Investors are digesting the Federal Reserve’s hawkish monetary policy outlook. The U.S. central bank on Wednesday kept its interest rates unchanged between 5.25% and 5.50%, but revised its economic projection to indicate one more interest rate hike by the end of 2023. It also projects slower-than-expected rate cuts throughout 2024.
Zachary Hill, head of portfolio management at the U.S.-based investment manager Horizon Investments, told Reuters on Saturday that the past week has seen “some Fed messaging colliding with overly optimistic equity investors.”
Those investors have “wanted to trade peak interest rates for almost a year now.” But the Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech and the Fed’s projection showed that the central bank “doesn’t think we’re there yet,” said Hill.
Following the Fed’s remarks, U.S. 10-year treasury yields closed at 4.44% on Friday, after briefly rising above 4.5% on Thursday for the first time since 2007.
Explaining the central bank’s hawkish stance, Fed governor Michelle Bowman said on Friday the latest consumer price index (CPI) indicated a rise in inflation. That coincides with rising oil prices. Bowman said that the continued risk of rising energy prices could “reverse some of the progress” she said has been made on inflation in recent months.
“I expect it will likely be appropriate for the Committee to raise rates further and hold them at a restrictive level for some time to return inflation to our 2 percent goal in a timely way,” Bowman added.
The global oil price benchmark Brent futures traded at around US$92 as of 10:30 a.m. in Hong Kong. That is an increase of over 11% in the past 30 days. Morgan Stanley on Thursday raised its fourth-quarter Brent forecast from US$82.5 per barrel to US$95. But the U.S. investment giant said a price above US$100 would seem “stretched”, according to a note viewed by Reuters.
The Fed meets on Nov. 1 to make its next decision on interest rates. The CME FedWatch Tool predicts a 74.6% chance of no interest rate hike in November, up from 73.8% on Friday. It also gives a 59.3% chance of another pause in December, up from 54.8% on Friday.
Elsewhere, S&P on Monday lowered its projection for China’s 2023 economic growth from 5.2% to 4.8%. It cited the country’s limited fiscal and monetary easing policies as reasons for the decline.
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