{"id":10364,"date":"2025-01-29T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:16:59","slug":"bitcoin-price-drops-by-1k-as-us-federal-reserve-maintains-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=10364","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Drops by $1K as US Federal Reserve Maintains Interest Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As expected, the US Fed didn\u2019t lower the key interest rates in the first FOMC meeting of the year.<\/p>\n<p>BTC\u2019s price had calmed over the past day or so at around $102,000 \u2013 $103,000 but started to lose value almost immediately after the decision came out.<\/p>\n<p>During the last FOMC meeting for 2024, the US Federal Reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-tumbles-toward-100k-despite-feds-latest-rate-cut\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">cut<\/a> the interest rates by 25 basis points but hinted that the reductions could be paused for 2025 due to the rising concerns about growing inflation.<\/p>\n<p>After his inauguration, the country\u2019s new President, Donald J. Trump, insisted that the interest rates should be lowered, but the overall expectations ahead of the meeting were that the central bank would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/rates-bonds\/fed-likely-keep-rates-steady-it-awaits-more-data-clarity-trump-policies-2025-01-29\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">keep them<\/a> as such \u2013 4.25% to 4.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The CPI data that came out last week <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-shoots-up-above-98-5k-following-release-of-us-december-cpi-data\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">showed<\/a> that the inflation was not as high as many anticipated. Nevertheless, the Fed\u2019s decision was indeed to refrain from lowering the rates now, perhaps in anticipation of further inflation data as well as Trump\u2019s upcoming monetary changes.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of crypto impact, the Fed\u2019s decision to maintain the interest rates had an immediate effect on prices. Bitcoin, for example, stood <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/calm-before-the-storm-btc-stable-at-102k-ahead-of-fomc-meeting-market-watch\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">close<\/a> to $103,000 but dropped by about a grand within the first few minutes following the announcement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_381094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381094\" style=\"width: 1835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38.png\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381094\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38.png\" alt=\"BTCUSD. Source: TradingView\" width=\"1835\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38.png 1835w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38-1024x457.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38-1536x686.png 1536w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BTCUSD-38-50x22.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1835px) 100vw, 1835px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BTCUSD. Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-drops-by-1k-as-us-federal-reserve-maintains-interest-rates\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bitcoin Price Drops by $1K as US Federal Reserve Maintains Interest Rates<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the US Fed didn\u2019t lower the key interest rates in the first FOMC meeting of the year. BTC\u2019s price had calmed over the past day or so at around $102,000 \u2013 $103,000 but started to lose value almost immediately after the decision came out. During the last FOMC meeting for 2024, the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}