Fed easing, seasonal factors likely boosting crypto for rest of 2024, 2025
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FED EASING, SEASONAL FACTORS LIKELY BOOSTING CRYPTO FOR REST OF 2024, 2025
With the Federal Reserve launching its easing cycle two weeks ago and more cuts expected over the next 12 months, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are expected to benefit from increasing liquidity and are likely to see significant gains through 2025, according to latest research report from the ETC Group, a crypto exchange-traded product provider.
A U.S. recession remains ETC's base case for now due to several leading labor market indicators that signal a rise in the increase in the U.S. unemployment rate. But ETC's head of research Andre Dragosch notes a recession is not necessarily detrimental to bitcoin and other cryptoassets.
"On the contrary, it could lead to greater expectations of Fed rate cuts and U.S. dollar weakness, which might actually provide a tailwind for bitcoin," Dragosch says.
"The rising global liquidity tide will be a strong support for scarce assets like bitcoin over the coming months and well into 2025."
Seasonal trends favoring strong performance in the final months of the year could also serve to underpin crypto.
September tends to be the worst month for bitcoin's performance historically, but last month it posted a gain of 7.4%, which was a surprise for most market participants.
But October and November should be better months for crypto overall, delivering gains for bitcoin of 29.5% and 37.9%, respectively, Dragosch writes, citing its own calculations based on Glassnode data.
He notes that since hitting an all-time high in March 2024, bitcoin and other crypto assets have been mired in so-called "chopsolidation", a volatile but consolidating range bound market. This has been due to several factors like government bitcoin sales, the Mt. Gox trustee's bitcoin distributions, and macroeconomic capitulation in August 2024.
But Dragosch anticipates that bitcoin will break out of its "chopsolidation" phase in Q4, with the Fed's recent pivot potentially serving as the perfect catalyst for the next leg up.
Bitcoin is currently down more than 4% at $61,133 BTC=.
(Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss)
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