FED Pauses Its Hikes – Crypto Gets Five Dates to Watch
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Key Takeaways Rate range unchanged at 3.75%-4.00%. September CPI ran 3.7% on energy costs. Futures still price a December hike. Midterms and three data releases precede December. The Federal Open Market Committee’s statement leaves policy where it landed after September’s quarter-point increase , the central bank’s first hike since 2023. A pause, not a change of direction Few traders expected anything else. Monday’s Bitcoin outlook cited a 90.6% probability of a hold on CME FedWatch, and a month earlier that figure had been closer to a coin toss. What changed over those weeks was the calendar.
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