{"id":91677,"date":"2026-05-12T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=91677"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:48:17","slug":"bitcoin-price-reacts-as-u-s-inflation-rises-to-highest-level-since-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=91677","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Reacts as U.S. Inflation Rises to Highest Level Since May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It appears that rising fuel costs and international geopolitical tensions are catching up with global economies, and the US is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>The CPI numbers for April are out, indicating that inflation in the country has surged to 3.8%, the highest level since May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Core CPI inflation also rose above the expected 2.7%, reaching 2.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s price saw somewhat elevated volatility throughout the release, but the movement has so far been relatively negligible. At the time of this writing, BTC trades at slightly below $81K, down 0.5% for the day and mostly flat for the week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1436870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1436870\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-scaled.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1436870\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-scaled.png\" alt=\"BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-1024x436.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-768x327.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-1536x654.png 1536w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-2048x872.png 2048w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-90x38.png 90w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-150x64.png 150w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-2000x851.png 2000w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-1600x681.png 1600w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-1400x596.png 1400w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-1200x511.png 1200w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-1000x426.png 1000w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-900x383.png 900w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-800x341.png 800w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-700x298.png 700w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-600x255.png 600w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-500x213.png 500w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-400x170.png 400w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-200x85.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BTCUSD_2026-05-12_15-37-01-100x43.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1436870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TradingView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that analysts from The Kobeissi Letter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KobeissiLetter\/status\/2054177816573329496\">pointed out<\/a> their expectations that<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-reacts-as-u-s-inflation-rises-to-highest-level-since-may-2023\/\">Bitcoin Price Reacts as U.S. Inflation Rises to Highest Level Since May 2023<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that rising fuel costs and international geopolitical tensions are catching up with global economies, and the US is no exception. The CPI numbers for April are out, indicating that inflation in the country has surged to 3.8%, the highest level since May 2023. Core CPI inflation also rose above the expected 2.7%, reaching [&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-91677","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\/91677","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=91677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}