🚨 MACRO x CRYPTO BREAKING ALERT 🚨
🇺🇸 U.S. Jobless Claims fall to 208K (Week of Jan 3)
📉 Below expectations of 210K — confirming a tight, resilient labor market.
Why This Matters
• Strong jobs data = less pressure on the Fed to cut rates
• Markets immediately reprice expectations
• Risk assets feel the hit first
CRYPTO REACTION (LIVE)
• Price: $90,018.1
• Change: -1.94%
📊 Perp: $89,562.2 (-2.53%)
👉 Pullback as market digests macro reality — shakeout or deeper correction?
• Price: $883.75 (-2.09%)
📊 Perp: $880.39 (-2.6%)
👉 High-beta majors cooling as leverage unwinds.
🟣 $WAL (Walrus)
• Price: $0.1338 (-3.74%)
📊 Perp: $0.1332 (-4.24%)
👉 Smaller caps getting hit harder — classic risk-off.
🧠 Bigger Picture
🔥 Strong U.S. data keeps the Fed cautious
🔥 Rate-cut optimism gets pushed out
🔥 Election-year politics + Fed uncertainty = elevated volatility
Smart money focuses on key levels — not emotions
Bottom Line
This isn’t panic — it’s positioning.
Markets are flushing weak hands before the next big move.
Stay sharp. Stay liquid. Volatility = opportunity.
