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Fed to Start Tapering Bond Purchases Later This Month

Sui Chung, CEO of crypto index provider CF Benchmarks, discusses the impact on crypto markets as the Federal Reserve's plan to start tapering bond purchases later this month.

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What’s Driving Bitcoin’s Bull Run?

Global Head of Digital Assets at global crypto broker ED&F Man Capital Markets Brooks Dudley discusses his crypto markets assessment and outlook after bitcoin posted its biggest monthly price gain in October since December 2020 and whether it’s institutions or retail investors driving the rally.

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Markets

Bitcoin Eyes Fed Meeting After Biggest Monthly Price Gain Since December 2020

Goldman Sachs has moved forward its projection for the first Fed interest rate hike to July 2022.

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Policy

Fed Reserve Governor Quarles Doesn’t See Reasoning Behind CBDCs

Randal Quarles, who also chairs the Financial Stability Board, said he’s not certain how a central bank digital currency could address financial inclusivity concerns.

FSB Chair Randal Quarles (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

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Crypto 2022 Policy Week: Reckoning With Regulation

Steven Kelly, research associate at Yale University's Program on Financial Stability, discusses what to expect from the Federal Reserve’s report on CBDCs, stablecoins and crypto, and what crypto regulation could look like in the U.S.

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Markets

Bitcoin Erases Spike Above $58K as Fed Minutes Raise Specter of Faster Stimulus Unwinding

Short-term puts are trading at relatively higher prices than calls, signaling nervousness in the crypto market.

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Bitcoin Erases Spike Above $58K as Fed Minutes Raise Specter of Faster Stimulus Unwinding

Bitcoin showed signs of exhaustion after the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September meeting, released late Wednesday, flagged inflation concerns and revealed growing support for a faster unwinding of stimulus. "All About Bitcoin" host Christine Lee breaks down the Chart of the Day.

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Markets

US September Jobs Report Misses, Amid Fed Tapering Speculation

August’s jobs number was revised up by 131,000. Bitcoin prices hold steady after the report.

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Policy

You Can’t Use a Trillion-Dollar Coin

It isn’t just a cute but faulty idea. It’s worthless.

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