Bitcoin’s Negative Correlation With Dollar Index Strengthens Ahead of U.S. GDP Data
“The market eyes growth at 2% – shouldn’t move markets too intently given the backward nature of the data point – would need to be a big beat/miss to the move rates expectations and the USD, gold, Nasdaq,” Chris Weston, head of research at Pepperstone, said in a tweet.
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