{"id":74550,"date":"2026-03-02T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74550"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:46:36","slug":"markets-are-indicating-an-imminent-recession-what-does-that-spell-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74550","title":{"rendered":"Markets Are Indicating An Imminent Recession &#8211; What Does That Spell For Bitcoin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stock Market Warning Signs<\/h2>\n<p>The stock market has seen some concerning signs over the past few weeks that are worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n<p>So far, over the past two months:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Consumer Staples have outperformed the S&amp;P 500 by 14%<\/li>\n<li>Utilities have outperformed the S&amp;P 500 by 11%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These two sectors are what is called &#8220;defensive&#8221;, meaning it is what the equity market rotates into ahead of recessions. Now, in the larger context, both of these are still in a larger downtrend against the broader market, but these recent signals in the equity market aren&#8217;t the only warning shot.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen AI-driven fears permeate all varieties of US equities. Everything from cybersecurity stocks to wealth management, to SaaS- every day, we&#8217;re seeing new concerns being expressed.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good game everyone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8tHjMQUU2g\">pic.twitter.com\/8tHjMQUU2g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert (infra \ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f\u231b\ufe0f) (@infraa_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infraa_\/status\/1973362080209383734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>There has been violent rotation underneath the surface of the equity market for months now- rotation that is not visible if you look at the major indices. That rotation, out of the high-growth tech (that had been driving the stock market higher for 3 years now), and into defensive sectors like consumer staples, utilities, and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the striking, strong negative correlation that defensives\/tech has to Bitcoin:<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new BTC correlation:<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is well aware of the BTC\/IGV (software) correlation, but here&#8217;s a new one-<\/p>\n<p>Defensives \/ Technology<\/p>\n<p>As the defensives (like consumer staples, healthcare and utilities) outperform the growth-y areas of tech, bitcoin suffers correspondingly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DYNbMPMD7\">pic.twitter.com\/9DYNbMPMD7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milo (@milocredit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/milocredit\/status\/2026461453906227390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/Opinion\/26\/03\/50977886\/markets-are-indicating-an-imminent-recession-what-does-that-spell-for-bitcoin?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Markets\" are indicating an imminent recession what does that spell for bitcoin>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock Market Warning Signs The stock market has seen some concerning signs over the past few weeks that are worth paying attention to. So far, over the past two months: Consumer Staples have outperformed the S&amp;P 500 by 14% Utilities have outperformed the S&amp;P 500 by 11% These two sectors are what is called &#8220;defensive&#8221;, [&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-74550","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\/74550","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=74550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}