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Crypto Market Faces Weak Demand, Needs Trump Initiatives to Kick In, JPMorgan Says
Institutional crypto futures positioning suggests a weakness in demand, the report said.
What to know:
- The crypto market is lacking positive catalysts in the near term, the report said.
- JPMorgan said CME futures positioning suggests waning institutional demand.
- Positive crypto initiatives by the new U.S. administration are unlikely to happen until the second half of the year, the bank said.
The cryptocurrency market is lacking positive catalysts in the near term, Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a report Wednesday.
The correction in crypto markets in recent months has seen both bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) futures near backwardation, which is a sign of lower demand, the report said. Backwardation occurs when the spot price of an asset is higher than the price trading in the futures market.
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"This is a negative development and indicative of demand weakness by those institutional investors that use regulated CME futures contracts to gain exposure into these two cryptocurrencies," analysts led Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote.
If demand for bitcoin and ether futures is healthy, the futures cost more than the spot price, and the curve is said to be in contango, the bank noted.
When demand slows and price expectations soften, the futures curve moves towards backwardation, the bank added.
This weakness in demand could be due to a number of reasons.
Positive crypto initiatives by Trump's new administration are more likely to kick in during the second half of the year, the bank said, and this means institutional investors are likely taking profits due to a lack of short-term catalysts.
Lower demand from systematic and momentum-driven funds, such as CTAs, has also affected bitcoin and ether futures, JPMorgan added.
Read more: U.S. Crypto Task Force to Focus on Delivering National Bitcoin Reserve: Bernstein
Will Canny
Will Canny is an experienced market reporter with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. He's now covering the crypto beat as a finance reporter at CoinDesk. He owns more than $1,000 of SOL.
