Bitcoin price today: Cryptocurrency climbs back above $40,000
Bitcoin price today gained the most in more than three months as investors show signs of renewed risk appetite following a volatile week across financial markets. The largest cryptocurrency by market value jumped as much as 9.8% to $40,573, the most since Oct. 15. Bitcoin price hasn’t been above $40,000 in more than two weeks. Ether climbed as much as 11%. Even SOL, the native currency of the Solana blockchain that has tumbled in the wake of the Wormhole project hack, surged about 10%.
The top cryptocurrencies began to rally in overnight trading after strong earnings from Amazon.com Inc. bolstered confidence in technology stocks, which digital tokens have largely tracked over the past months.
Meanwhile, a report showed U.S. employers extended a hiring spree last month despite a record spike in Covid-19 infections and related business closures, with surging wages adding further pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
“The fact that AMZN’s earnings went the way of AAPL, MSFT and GOOGL -- and not the way of FB -- has given investors more confidence to reengage with the risk-on trade,” said Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak + Co., said.
Stephane Ouellette, chief executive and co-founder of institutional crypto-platform FRNT Financial, said Bitcoin seems to be consolidating in a similar way to equities around the 200-day moving average. Over the last two days, Bitcoin correlated to Facebook declines, and on Friday to Amazon gains, according to Ouellette.
“In spite of today’s move from a technical perspective I don’t think we can start saying anything definitive until at least a definitive breakout beyond” $40,000 to $41,000, he said.
The big cryptocurrencies have been largely trapped in a range
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