TL;DR

• Inflation came in lower than expected, which rallied the market as expected, all before dumping back to where it started the day (after Jerome Powell’s press conference).

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You know how in video games, you can wear out a non-player character’s (NPC’s) list of preset responses?

Where at a certain point they just start to repeat themselves?

It feels like the Federal Reserve is stuck on a similar setting.

The past three times they’ve met to discuss inflation and set interest rates (the latest being yesterday), their response has been:

“We will continue to monitor the data and adjust accordingly.”

(It’s boring. But it’s better than “damn dude, things ain’t looking too good”).

In response to yesterday’s infinite-loop-of-the-same-statement, the markets were…choppy.

Inflation came in lower than expected (a 3.3% yearly increase, instead of 3.4%), which rallied the market as expected — pushing BTC from $67.7k to $69.9k.

…all before seeing it dump back below $67.7k a few hours later (after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference), taking the rest of the market with it.

Long story longer:

As of this writing, we’re pretty much back to where we were on Tuesday.

Easy come, easy go.