Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick has previously said he expects bitcoin prices to exceed $500,000 by the time Donald Trump leaves office. He said in a report Tuesday morning that the forecast remains valid, looking back at BTC's weak short-term price action, supported by a recent series of 13F filings on institutional ownership of spot bitcoin ETFs. Kendrick said the buyer type has evolved from retail investors to hedge funds, and now...
During Trump's campaign, he said he should be consulted on the Fed's interest rate decisions. Fed Chairperson Jerome Powell did not ignore these remarks, making it clear that he would not resign if Trump asked him to do so - on the grounds that the president does not have the legal authority to remove him from office. These developments set the stage for a confrontation between the Fed and the incoming president, TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins (...