MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | 'Wall Street Doesn't Understand Coinbase's Business Model,' Says Bitwise's Ryan Rasmussen
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 29th, 2024, and this is Markets Daily from Coin Desk. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Jens Nassie. Let's dive into those prices. |
| 0:19.4 | According to Coin desk indices at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, Bitcoin was trading down slightly over the past 24 hours, |
| 0:26.1 | but up 5.5% on the week, trading at $42,079. |
| 0:31.1 | Ether also fell slightly on the day, sitting at 2,256 and was roughly flat on the week. |
| 0:37.3 | Today's mover in the Coin Desk Market Index is |
| 0:39.8 | storage, ticker, S-T-O-R-J, up 13% on the day. And in traditional markets, both the NASDAQ and the |
| 0:48.1 | S&P 500 fell slightly on Friday, but both were up week-to-week. U.S. traders eagerly await the outcome of this week's FOMC meeting. |
| 0:57.7 | Lastly, in commodities, the Brent crude oil benchmark was trading at $82.74 a barrel. |
| 1:04.5 | Meanwhile, gold was trading at $2,029 an ounce. |
| 1:08.7 | For more on markets action, let's bring in Ryan Rasmussen Cryptoanalyst at Bitwise. |
| 1:18.6 | All right, let's talk about those crypto markets. |
| 1:21.2 | What are you watching today? |
| 1:22.8 | You know, I think one thing you mentioned that everyone's watching is the results of the FOMC meeting this week. |
| 1:27.7 | That's going to have a big impact on which way markets move from a risk-on perspective. |
| 1:31.7 | So that's the main thing that I'm watching this week. |
| 1:33.6 | Of course, we're keeping an eye on the flows in and out of these Bitcoin ETFs. |
| 1:37.5 | That's still front of our mind a bit wise. |
| 1:39.5 | So those are the two things I'm thinking about. |
| 1:41.8 | What do you expect to see at the FOMC meeting? I think we'll |
| 1:45.4 | hold flat this FOMC meeting. There are expectations that rates could cut later on this year, |
| 1:50.6 | but I think right now in the first half of the year, really, I would expect us to just maintain |
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