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Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin, Ether Rise After Court Nixes Trump's Tariffs
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC rose and stock index futures surged early Thursday after a U.S. court declared President Donald Trump's broad-based tariffs regime invalid. The positive sentiment was buoyed by AI giant Nvidia's upbeat earnings. On-chain data showed large wallets, those holding over 10,000 BTC, have shifted to selling from buying as the largest cryptocurrency holds close to its record high, with an increase in exchange deposits also pointing to selling pressure. Meanwhile, options market data signaled potential for volatility ahead of Friday's monthly settlement. Ether ETH, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, jumped to $2,780, the highest since Feb. 24, consistent with the bullish signals from the derivatives market. The token has been bid this week, supposedly on SharpLink's $425 million Treasury plan. Notably, U.S.-listed spot ether ETFs saw a net inflow of $84.89 million on Wednesday, extending their streak to eight consecutive days. Canada-listed investment firm Sol Strategies said it filed a preliminary prospectus with local securities regulators to raise up to $1 billion to boost its investment in the Solana ecosystem. Still, SOL was flattish at around $170. In the broader market, TON, PEPE and FLOKI led other coins higher while FARTCOIN, PI and JUP nursed most losses. Open interest in TON perpetual futures surged 33% to $190 million, clocking the highest since Feb. 18. Stablecoin issuer Circle froze wallets connected to the Libra token containing millions of dollars worth of USDC. Metaplanet issued $21M in bonds to finance more bitcoin purchases. In traditional markets, some investment banks said Trump has other tools to sidestep the court ruling on tariffs. Yields on the longer duration Treasury notes ticked higher, suggesting dollar strength. Stay alert! Crypto May 30: The second round of FTX repayments starts. May 31 (TBC): Mezo mainnet launch. June 6, 1-5 p.m.: U.S. SEC Crypto Task Force Roundtable on "DeFi and the American Spirit" Macro May 29, 8 a.m.: The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) releases April unemployment rate data. Unemployment Rate Est. 6.9% vs. Prev. 7% May 29, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases Q1 GDP data. GDP Growth Rate QoQ (2nd estimate) Est. -0.3% vs. Prev. 2.4% GDP Price Index QoQ (2nd estimate) Est. 3.7% vs. Prev. 2.3% GDP Sales QoQ (2nd estimate) Est. -2.5% vs. Prev. 3.3% May 29, 2 p.m.: Fed Governor Adriana D. Kugler will deliver a speech at the 5th Annual Federal Reserve Board Macro-Finance Workshop (virtual). Livestream link. May 30, 8 a.m.: The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) releases Q1 GDP data. GDP Growth Rate QoQ Est. 1.4% vs. Prev. 0.2% GDP Growth Rate YoY Est. 3.2% vs. Prev. 3.6% May 30, 8 a.m.: Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography releases April unemployment rate data. Unemployment Rate Est. 2.5% vs. Prev. 2.2% May 30, 8:30 a.m.: Statistics Canada releases Q1 GDP data. GDP Growth Rate Annualized Est. 1.7% vs. Prev. 2.6% GDP Growth Rate QoQ Prev. 0.6% May 30, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases April consumer income and expenditure data. Core PCE Price Index MoM Est. 0.1% vs. Prev. 0% Core PCE Price Index YoY Est. 2.5% vs. Prev. 2.6% PCE Price Index MoM Est. 0.1% vs. Prev. 0% PCE Price Index YoY Est. 2.2% vs. Prev. 2.3% Personal Income MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. 0.5% Personal Spending MoM Est. 0.2% vs. Prev. 0.7% May 30, 10 a.m.: The University of Michigan releases (final) May U.S. consumer sentiment data. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Est. 51 vs. Prev. 52.2 Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data) None in the near future. Governance votes & calls Arbitrum DAO is voting on a constitutional AIP to upgrade Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova to ArbOS 40 'Callisto,' bringing them in line with Ethereum's May 7 Pectra upgrade. The proposal schedules activation for June 17, and voting ends on May 29. Sui DAO is voting on moving to recover approximately $220 million in funds stolen from the Cetus Protocol hack via a protocol upgrade. Voting ends June 3. May 29, 8 a.m.: NEAR Protocol to host a House of Stake Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. May 29, 2 p.m.: Wormhole to host an ecosystem call. June 4, 6:30 p.m.: Synthetic to host a community call. June 10, 10 a.m.: to host an analyst call followed by a Q&A session. Unlocks May 31: Optimism (OP) to unlock 1.89% of its circulating supply worth $24.43 million. June 1: Sui (SUI) to unlock 1.32% of its circulating supply worth $160.58 million. June 1: ZetaChain (ZETA) to unlock 5.34% of its circulating supply worth $11.18 million. June 12: Ethena (ENA) to unlock 0.7% of its circulating supply worth $15.83 million. June 12: Aptos (APT) to unlock 1.79% of its circulating supply worth $60.96 million. Token Launches June 1: Staking rewards for staking ERC-20 OM on MANTRA Finance end. June 16: Advised deadline to unstake stMATIC as part of Lido on Polygon's sunsetting process ends. June 26: Coinbase to delist Helium Mobile (MOBILE), Render (RNDR), Ribbon Finance (RBN), & Synapse (SYN) Day 3 of 3: Bitcoin 2025 (Las Vegas) Day 3 of 4: Web Summit Vancouver (Vancouver, British Columbia) May 29: Stablecon (New York) Day 1 of 2: Litecoin Summit 2025 (Las Vegas) Day 1 of 4: Balkans Crypto 2025 (Tirana, Albania) June 2-7: SXSW London June 19-21: BTC Prague 2025 June 25-26: Bitcoin Policy Institute's Bitcoin Policy Summit 2025 (Washington) June 26-27: Istanbul Blockchain Week By Oliver Knight Markets on the Ethereum-based Cork Protocol remain paused after Wednesday's $12 million smart-contract exploit. The attacker manipulated the smart contact's exchange-rate function by issuing fake tokens, stealing 3,761.8 wrapped staked ether (wstETH) in the process. The exploit marked another attack on the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry just days after Sui-based Cetus Protocol lost $223 million to an exploit. TRM Labs estimates that $2.2 billion was stolen in crypto exploits and hacks in 2024. Ether remains unperturbed by the exploit, leading the market today on the back of renewed institutional interest and spot ETF flows. It is up 3.8% in the past 24 hours while bitcoin is down by 0.17%. TRX, XMR, ETH, LTC and BNB led major cryptocurrencies' growth in perpetual futures open interest. Funding rates for majors, except TON, signal bullish sentiment, but nothing extraordinary. On the CME, ETH annualized one-month futures basis topped 10%, while BTC lagged at 8.7%. Signs of caution emerged on Deribit, with front-end BTC skew flipping to puts and ETH's call skew softening. Block flows on Paradigm featured demand for short-dated BTC puts. BTC is up 1.15% from 4 p.m. ET Wednesday at $108,594.41 (24hrs: -0.29%) ETH is up 3.9% at $2,738.04 (24hrs: +3.63%) CoinDesk 20 is up 2.21% at 3,278.84 (24hrs: +0.66%) Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is unchanged at 3.1% BTC funding rate is at 0.0057% (6.3006% annualized) on Binance DXY is up 0.12% at 99.99 Gold is up 0.32% at $3,304.20/oz Silver is up 1.24% at $33.41/oz Nikkei 225 closed +1.88% at 38,432.98 Hang Seng closed +1.35% at 23,573.38 FTSE is unchanged at 8,724.05 Euro Stoxx 50 is unchanged at 5,378.39 DJIA closed on Wednesday -0.58% at 42,098.70 S&P 500 closed -0.56% at 5,888.55 Nasdaq closed -0.51% at 19,100.94 S&P/TSX Composite Index closed unchanged at 26,283.50 S&P 40 Latin America closed -0.76 at 2,599.53 U.S. 10-year Treasury rate is up 6 bps at 4.54% E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 1.53% at 5,993.25 E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 2.03% at 21,814.25 E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are up 0.96% at 42,576.00 BTC Dominance: 63.71 (-0.06%) Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.02517 (1.12%) Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 910 EH/s Hashprice (spot): $57.0 Total Fees: 8.03 BTC / $868,310 CME Futures Open Interest: 152,995 BTC BTC priced in gold: 32.8 oz BTC vs gold market cap: 9.30% The VIRTUAL token has topped the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement of the January-April crash. The break out above the widely tracked resistance could entice more buyers, yielding a bigger rally. Strategy (MSTR): closed on Wednesday at $364.25 (-2.14%), +2.43% at $373.09 in pre-market Coinbase Global (COIN): closed at $254.29 (-4.55%), +3.01% at $261.95 Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed at C$28 (-6.57%) MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $14.86 (-9.61%), +4.04% at $15.46 Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $8.38 (-8.32%), +2.86% at $8.62 Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $10.78 (-4.43%), +2.97% at $11.10 CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $9.11 (-7.61%), +3.62% at $9.44 CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $17.27 (-5.32%) Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $41.32 (-4.77%), +2.95% at $42.54 Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed at $25.94 (-25.35%), +11.6% at $28.95 Spot BTC ETFs Daily net flow: $432.7 million Cumulative net flows: $45.31 billion Total BTC holdings ~ 1.21 million Spot ETH ETFs Daily net flow: $84.9 million Cumulative net flows: $2.9 billion Total ETH holdings ~ 3.57 million Source: Farside Investors The MOVE index, which measures the volatility in U.S. Treasury notes, has dropped to the lowest level since March. If it drops further, a continued decline is likely to ease financial conditions, greasing the bitcoin bull run. U.S. Trade Court Strikes Down Trump's Global Tariffs (The Wall Street Journal): Judges said economic deficits don't meet the legal threshold for a national emergency, and said unchecked executive authority over levies violates the constitutional separation of powers. Solana Scores Twin Institutional Wins With $1B Raise and First Public Liquid Staking Strategy (CoinDesk): Sol Strategies aims to raise $1 billion to expand Solana ecosystem exposure, while DeFi Development said it is the first public firm to hold Solana-based liquid staking tokens. Bitcoin Whales Seem to Be Calling a Top as BTC Price Consolidates (CoinDesk): Large holders are offloading BTC and sending it to exchanges after a period of accumulation, while smaller investors continue buying. XRP Army Is Truly Global as CME Data Reveals Nearly Half of XRP Futures Trading Occurs in Non-U.S. Hours (CoinDesk): These contracts recorded $86.6 million in volume over six days across 4,032 trades, with 46% of activity logged during overseas sessions. Goldman Urges Investors to Buy Gold and Oil as Long-Term Hedges (Bloomberg): Goldman Sachs said surging U.S. debt and concerns over monetary and fiscal governance have eroded trust in long-term Treasuries, making gold and oil essential hedges against inflation and supply shocks. UK Seeks to Speed Up Implementation of U.S. Trade Deal (Financial Times): The U.K. business secretary will meet the U.S. Trade Representative in Paris next week to discuss implementation timelines for the bilateral trade deal announced on May 8.
South China Morning Post
23-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Brazilian data partnership with China draws criticism from former officials
A new partnership between Brazil's national statistics agency and China's data bureau is drawing sharp criticism from former Brazilian officials and researchers who warn that the move could undermine the agency's credibility and commitment to transparency. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) confirmed on Thursday that it is deepening cooperation with China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), following a visit by IBGE leadership to Beijing last week. The trip marked the implementation of a 2024 agreement and included new deals with Chinese academic institutions as well. As China has become the world's second-largest economy, the reliability of its data has become increasingly important beyond its shores. Yet economists and policymakers outside the country have had long-standing concerns over China's record of limiting access to sensitive data and whether its statistics are politicised. US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in 2010 disclosed that Li Keqiang – then China's vice-premier and later its premier – had privately admitted that China's official GDP figures were 'man-made' and 'unreliable'. Li reportedly said he relied instead on electricity use, rail cargo volume and loan disbursements to gauge economic performance, which Western economists subsequently dubbed the Li Keqiang index.
Business Recorder
25-04-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
Brazil inflation matches forecasts ahead of expected rate hike
SAO PAULO: Brazil's annual inflation sped up in line with market expectations in early April, official data showed on Friday, hitting its highest in more than two years ahead of the central bank's next interest rate-setting meeting in May. The IPCA-15 consumer price index rose 5.49% in the 12 months through mid-April, statistics agency IBGE said. That was up from 5.26% a month earlier and the highest since February 2023. The increase matched economists' forecasts in a Reuters poll and, in a silver lining, followed a slowdown in the monthly inflation rate. The fresh figures come as markets ponder the size of an upcoming rate hike, as the central bank has left its May 7 decision open amid an uncertain economic outlook and inconclusive signs of cooling activity in Latin America's largest economy. Policymakers at the bank continue to voice discomfort with inflation standing well above their 3% target, plus or minus 1.5 percentage points, and improving but still unanchored inflation expectations. The bank raised interest rates by 100 basis points for the third consecutive time in March to 14.25%. It signaled a further albeit smaller hike for May, but stopped short of specifying its size. Brazil's economy grows 3.8% in 2024 but shows signs of cooling Consumer prices in the month to mid-April alone rose 0.43%, slowing from the 0.64% increase registered in the previous month and in line with market estimates, according to IBGE. The monthly figure was mainly driven by higher food and personal care costs, the statistics agency said, while transport prices were down. The mid-April data mean that the central bank is likely to press ahead with a 50-basis-point interest rate hike at its next meeting, Capital Economics' deputy chief emerging marketseconomist Jason Tuvey said. 'But comments this week from officials that they believe tighter monetary policy is working to dampen economic activity, and thereby inflation pressures, suggest that the end of the tightening cycle is approaching,' he noted.
Reuters
11-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Brazil's inflation slows in March, but annual rate remains under pressure
BRASILIA, April 11 (Reuters) - Brazil's inflation slowed in March, in line with expectations, but the 12-month reading remained under pressure amid rising food prices, official data showed on Friday. Consumer prices as measured by the benchmark IPCA index rose 0.56% in March, matching the median forecast of economists polled by Reuters. The increase followed a 1.31% rise in February and was the biggest for the month of March since 2023, according to statistics agency IBGE. All categories of goods and services posted increases, with food and beverages weighing most heavily on the index as price gains accelerated to 1.17% from 0.70% in the previous month. Soaring food prices have been one of the key factors behind the declining approval ratings of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Over the 12-month period, inflation rose 5.48%, up from 5.06% in February and well above the central bank's 3% target, which allows for a tolerance range of 1.5 percentage points in either direction. The figures, however, came in below the expectations of policymakers in the quarterly monetary policy report released in late March, when they projected a 0.63% rise for the month and annual inflation at 5.55%. The central bank had warned that monthly consumer price gains were likely to remain elevated, with 12-month inflation hovering around 5.5% amid continued pressure from at-home food prices. The central bank has raised the benchmark Selic rate by 375 basis points since September, pushing it to 14.25%, and it has penciled in another hike at its policy meeting next month.
Reuters
28-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Brazil's jobless rate rises to 6.8% in quarter through February
SAO PAULO, March 28 (Reuters) - Brazil's jobless rate rose in the quarter through February, official data showed on Friday, matching economists' expectations in a Reuters poll. Unemployment in Latin America's largest economy hit 6.8% in the three months through February, statistics agency IBGE said, up from the 6.1% registered in the previous rolling quarter which ended in November. Brazil's jobless rate in recent quarters had fallen to historic lows, cheered by the government but also cited by the central bank as a factor in its interest rate hikes amid increased consumer prices. Last week, the central bank raised interest rates by 100 basis points to 14.25% - a high not seen since 2016 - and signaled a smaller increase to come in May. In recent weeks, a string of have showed signs of a slowdown in the Brazilian economy.
