Bitcoin closed its Thursday’s Trading Session in Red, despite an optimistic employment report in June boosted risk sentiment.The losses of the crypto-currency were offset by the profits of Wall Street and the strong positive correlation showed that after weeks, the first signs of a decoupling.At the same time, the slump has highlighted that Bitcoin represents the recovery of the US economy in the midst of rising COVID cases in question.
Has Bitcoin discovers a significant error in an otherwise positive US jobs report””? Obviously, Yes.
The Benchmark crypto-currency crashed at the end of the session on Thursday, a modest increase of 1.61 percent to approximately 9.091 dollars. The cloudy end to the appetite for risk is not prevented, which triggered the message that the United States could generate in June to 4.8 million jobs. The shares rose.
The Bitcoin price chart shows the recent decoupling from the S&P 500. Source: TradingView.com
After weeks of strong positive correlation showed the first signs of a decoupling between Bitcoin and the S&P 500. Equity investors preferred the more optimistic data compared to the gloomy Outlook by the increase in the number of COVID infections.
Meanwhile the Bitcoin traders were cautious.
US economy: recovery? Uncertain
Part of the reason why the Top crypto-currency, the S&P 500 on Wednesday is not followed, also suggests fundamental problems with the US labour market data. In fact, the report shows that the unemployment rate fell from 13.3 percent in may to 11.1 percent. He did not, however, the rising number of permanently unemployed workers.
The Conference Board, a New York-based non-profit organization that examines the issue more closely. In a Thursday press release, the organization writes that in the past week, more than 1.4 million Americans had applied for unemployment benefits.
It accuses the Ministry of labour in addition, jobs are incorrectly classified, and writes that the actual unemployment rate was about 12.3 percent and not at 11.1 percent.
“Add to that the extensive support measures of the government – in particular unemployment benefits – are largely phased out in the next month and your future is uncertain,” says the Conference Board.
Realistic vs. official unemployment rate in the United States. Source: Bureau of labor statistics
This does not mean that every Bitcoin Trader sell the US job numbers and has decided to. But the crash of the crypto-currency compared to the jump of the S&P 500 shows that some traders had discovered the said mistakes before the Wall Street.
Or, simply put, they were bored just above the flat Trend of the crypto-currency and sold them on the local Top.