{"id":74889,"date":"2026-03-04T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74889"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:31:36","slug":"bitcoin-surges-5-wrongfoots-goldman-ceo-im-surprised-markets-are-this-benign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74889","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Surges 5%, Wrongfoots Goldman CEO: &#8216;I&#8217;m Surprised Markets Are This Benign&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Goldman Sachs<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"GS\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/GS\">GS<\/a>) CEO <strong>David Solomon<\/strong> says he\u2019s surprised at the \u201cbenign\u201d market reaction to the Iran conflict, warning it may take \u201ca couple of weeks\u201d for investors to digest impacts even as <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) surged 5%.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u2018Benign\u2019 Market Reaction<\/h3>\n<p>Solomon spoke at a business summit in Sydney, expressing surprise at muted market reactions given the magnitude of the conflict, according to Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at the market reaction, and I\u2019m actually surprised that the market reaction has been more benign given the magnitude of this as you might think,\u201d Solomon said.<\/p>\n<p>Markets tend to react in a muted way to geopolitical events unless they have a direct impact on economic growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a cumulative effect of everything that\u2019s happening and a much harsher reaction. Up to this point, we haven\u2019t seen that cumulative effect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The delayed reaction concerns Solomon. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51034433\/bitcoin-surges-5-wrongfoots-goldman-ceo-im-surprised-markets-are-this-benign?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" surges wrongfoots goldman ceo: surprised markets are this benign>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) CEO David Solomon says he\u2019s surprised at the \u201cbenign\u201d market reaction to the Iran conflict, warning it may take \u201ca couple of weeks\u201d for investors to digest impacts even as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) surged 5%. The \u2018Benign\u2019 Market Reaction Solomon spoke at a business summit in Sydney, expressing surprise at muted market [&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-74889","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\/74889","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=74889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}