Stripe Advances Crypto Efforts with Avalanche, Friend.Tech Airdrop Set for This Week

Apr 29, 2024

Investors will have a lot to digest this week, including various data releases such as consumer confidence, ADP Employment, JOLTS, and non-farm payrolls. Likely more important is the FOMC meeting and Treasury Quarterly Refunding Announcement (QRA), both set for Wednesday. Equities are gaining to start the week with the SPY 0.24%  and QQQ 0.28%  both up approximately 0.30% as the DXY N/A% (-0.44%) slides after the BOJ intervened to support the Yen against the dollar. Crypto assets are struggling so far today, with BTC -0.70% (-0.51%) briefly falling below $62k before recovering to $62.8k and ETH -1.39% (-2.85%) trading at $3,170 after surpassing $3,350 yesterday. AVAX -4.31% is displaying strength today, rising 3.33% following news of a new partnership with payments giant Stripe. 

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CRYPTO MARKET UPDATE Crypto prices have rebounded slightly following yesterday's sharp selloff, with BTC -0.70% climbing back above $61,000 and SOL -3.73% moving above $145, while ETH -1.39% is lagging, trading around $2,400. Among today's outperformers is SUI -5.40% , which appears resilient despite a $115 million token unlock yesterday. Oil is partially retracing its early rally, gold is lower on the day, and yields are moving higher, suggesting at least a temporary reversal of...

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