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US inflation staying stuck near 3% keeps crypto in a familiar limbo: enough disinflation to sustain the risk\u2011asset bid, but not enough to force the Federal Reserve\u2019s hand into rapid rate cuts. <\/p>\n
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The December Consumer Price Index is expected<\/a> to rise 2.7% year\u2011on\u2011year, unchanged from November, with both headline and core inflation seen at 0.3% month\u2011on\u2011month. Strip out food and energy, and core CPI is forecast to edge up to 2.7% from 2.6%, a level analysts claim is still markedly above the Fed\u2019s target.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Investors have so far pencilled in 50 bps of easing this year, a modest cutting cycle that limits how aggressively liquidity can return to speculative corners of the market, from long\u2011duration tech stocks to lower\u2011cap altcoins. On that backdrop, TD Securities argues that \u201cgradual disinflation will be the story in H2 2026,\u201d expecting core CPI to \u201cpeak at 3% in Q2\u201d and end the year at 2.6%, a glide\u2011path that favors grinding, data\u2011sensitive rallies rather than a euphoric melt\u2011up.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n For crypto, this mix translates into a tactical environment:<\/p>\n Although the headline focus is EUR\/USD, the technical map outlined by Pablo Piovano of FXStreet doubles as a risk barometer for digital assets. He warns that if EUR\/USD \u201cdecisively slips below the short\u2011term 55\u2011day moving average at 1.1639, it would open the door to a deeper pullback, with the 200\u2011day SMA at 1.1561 coming into focus sooner rather than later,\u201d and below that, traders would watch \u201cthe November low at 1.1468 (November 5), followed by the August trough at 1.1391 (August 1).\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Conversely, \u201ca clean break above the December peak at 1.1807 (December 24) would shift the tone back to the upside,\u201d putting \u201cthe 2025 high at 1.1918 (September 17) on the radar, with the psychologically important 1.2000 level lurking just beyond.\u201d A stronger euro and weaker dollar in that scenario would typically align with improved conditions for Bitcoin and high\u2011beta crypto, especially when paired with easing expectations and ongoing spot ETF and infrastructure narratives elsewhere in the market.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n Together, these factors sketch a landscape where household balance sheets, policy uncertainty, and inflation all push and pull on adoption and speculative flows.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n For traders, the message is blunt:<\/p>\n A CPI in line with 2.7% YoY and 0.3% MoM likely preserves the current regime of cautious optimism: dips in majors find buyers, but aggressive leverage still risks whiplash on any upside inflation surprise.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n A downside shock could accelerate risk\u2011on flows into Bitcoin and leading altcoins, especially as markets reassess the \u201conly 50 bps\u201d easing path. An upside surprise, by contrast, would revive the strong\u2011dollar, higher\u2011for\u2011longer trade that typically punishes speculative tokens first.<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US inflation staying stuck near 3% keeps crypto in a familiar limbo: enough disinflation to sustain the risk\u2011asset bid, but not enough to force the Federal Reserve\u2019s hand into rapid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19731,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions\/19731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Macro Tone and Crypto Risk Appetite\u200b<\/h2>\n
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FX Signals, Dollar Flows, and Bitcoin<\/h2>\n
Implications for Crypto Positioning<\/h2>\n