Most people thought this Fed meeting was a non-event.
The ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐ said otherwise.
They held rates, exactly like the market expected. then the projections dropped:
โ Rates held at 3.50% to 3.75%, unanimous vote โ 97% of traders had priced the hold, not the dots โ Median 2026 dot moved from 3.4% to ๐ฏ.๐ด% โ 9 officials now back another hike this year โ Inflation ticked back up to 4.2% โ Jobs still hot: 172,000 added in May, 4.3% unemployment
A hold was never the story.
The real story is the Fed penciling in a ๐ต๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ for this year.
$BTC and $ETH ran all year on cuts that just got erased.
Most of crypto spent last week pricing in a ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ.
$BTC just spent the weekend pricing it back out.
the round trip in numbers:
โ dumped from 73,000 to under 60,000 last week โ lowest level since November 2024 โ clawed back to ~63,500 by the weekend โ opened Monday at ๐ฒ๐ฑ,๐ณ๐ญ๐ฌ, up 2% โ $ETH up 2.6%, back near 1,762 โ highest prints since June even started โ US/Iran ceasefire on the table, signing as soon as this week โ oil rolling over, Nasdaq bid up off the SpaceX debut