Bitcoin Surges To Record High, Dollar Dives As US Economic Outlook Plummets

Today was all about two things - what went up (crypto) and what went down (US economic growth forecasts).

The much-anticipated launch of a Bitcoin (Futures) ETF sent the cryptocurrency to a record closing high (yes we know BTC doesn't "close")...

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Just below the record intraday high from earlier in the year...

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Spot Bitcoin topped $64,000 intraday...

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As BITO opened above its reference price, ripped, dipped back below it, then rebounded...

BITO traded around $1bn making it the biggest opening day for an ETF ever...

$BITO just about at $1b in total volume today (curr $993m but trades still trickling in). Easily the biggest Day One of any ETF in terms of 'natural' volume. It also traded more than 99.5% of all ETFs (incl some bigs like $DIA, $ARKK, $SLV). It def defied our expectations.. pic.twitter.com/rWIPSAJboT

And as crypto rallied, US economic growth forecasts fell to almost nothing...

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Which did not help the dollar, as it broke down through recent support, near 1-month lows...

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Stocks ended the day higher - after some serious whipsaws - led by Nasdaq and S&P while The Dow and Small Caps lagged...

Bonds were mixed once again but flipped the recent trend with the short-end bid, long-end offered (2Y -3bps, 30Y +5bps) as the economic outlook slowed...

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Which unwound yesterday's flattening in the 2s30s curve...

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While Bitcoin surged, Ethereum also rallied but continues to underperform as the ratio finds support...

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Commodity-land was mixed with silver outperforming and gold flat, oil up modestly and copper down as LME made efforts to control the chaos...

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Finally, we note that bitcoin's "market cap" is now rapidly approaching that of Silver...

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As the entire cryptocurrency market cap topped $2.5 trillion - a new record high...

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And Happy 34th Black Monday anniversary...