Crypto Crack-Up Continues As Stocks & Bonds Sink Ahead Of CPI
BY Zero Hedge
TUESDAY, MAR 12, 2024 - 07:00 AM
With all eyes, ears, fingers, and toes tingling ahead of tomorrow's "most important data item in the whole wide world ever" CPI print (and PPI and Retail Sales later in the week), stocks stumbled on muted volume, bond yields rose, the dollar and gold flatlined, but crypto kept going to the moon...
Bitcoin face-ripped once again up to almost $73,000 - well above the prior record nominal high...
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Source: Bloomberg
...and getting very close to its inflation-adjusted high... Source: Bloomberg
Ethereum also surged today, testing up towards $4100 for the first time since Dec 2021... Source: Bloomberg
It appears crypto (Ethereum in this case) is following the resurgence in inflation expectations priced into the market... Source: Bloomberg
US Equity markets were less enthused on the day, with Nasdaq and S&P red (but Small Caps worst). The Dow desperately tried to cling to green... NVDA is down almost 8% (close to close) over the past two days - its biggest two-day decline since October - and down almost 14% from its highs to today's lows... Source: Bloomberg
VIX has been bid into this event-risk-prone week... Source: Bloomberg
Treasuries were sold today with the short-end underperforming... Source: Bloomberg The yield curve (2s30s) bear-flattened, erasing Friday's payrolls steepening... Source: Bloomberg
The dollar ended the day down (very very) marginally - for its 7th straight down day... Source: Bloomberg
Gold mirrored the dollar, ending (very very) marginally higher... Source: Bloomberg
Oil prices ended higher, with WTI finding support at $77, bouncing back above its 200DMA ($77.97) Source: Bloomberg
Finally, back to crypto. Bitcoin is now 'larger' than Silver and Ethereum has overtaken WalMart in terms of Market Cap... Source: 8MarketCap
Overall, the total crypto ecosystem's value, according to CoinMarketCap, is now closing in on the previous record high around $2.8 trillion.
