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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Near $58K on Fed Pledge to Keep Loose Policy

Bitcoin's price has doubled this year, partly because of demand from institutional investors who are looking for an asset that might hold its worth if the dollar’s purchasing power declines.

CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index

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Bitcoin Pares Losses as Fed’s Powell Sees No Rate Hike Anytime Soon

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell assures markets that monetary policy will stay loose "as long as it takes."

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday at a press conference, following the U.S. central bank's two-day meeting.

Política

How the Federal Reserve Might Try to Calm Inflation Fears This Week

The question is whether Powell will allow bond yields to keep rising or if the Fed will step in to ward off any unwanted market reaction.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

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Fed Chair Powell: ‘We’d Welcome Higher Inflation’

The central bank doesn’t want to pull back asset purchases just yet, Powell said Wednesday.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

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Federal Reserve Holds Rates, Asset Purchases Steady as Economic Activity Moderates

The U.S. central bank said interest rates will remain close to zero.

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Finanças

How Bitcoiners Should Watch the US Federal Reserve Meeting on Wednesday

Comments from the Fed could tell bitcoiners how committed the central bank is to staying the course on low interest rates through the rest of the year.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

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Ethereum: The Last Bastion for Yield

U.S. Treasury and corporate bonds are returning lower yields than ever. Ethereum's currency ether (ETH) presents an alternative.

Bitcoin traders are tokenizing the cryptocurrency to run on the Ethereum blockchain for extra yield.

Tecnologia

This Paradigm-Backed Startup Is Offering DeFi's First 'T-Bill'

Newly launched DeFi lending project Yield Protocol is offering stable interest rates for investors.

DEFI T-BILL: Yield Protocol's programmatic money market offers stable interest rates just like a Treasury bill.

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Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In

Bitcoin's correlations with gold and the stock market appears contradictory on the surface. There are deeper machinations at work.

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How Monetary Policy Undermined American Resilience

A legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices.

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