Bitcoin breaks above $60,000 after Fed Chair Warsh said inflation risks has come down
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- Bitcoin climbed back above $60,000, rising more than 2% over 24 hours per CoinDesk Data, after paring earlier losses on Warsh's inflation remarks.
- Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said "inflation risks have come down" at the ECB's annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, reaffirming the central bank's commitment to its 2% inflation objective.
- Warsh declined to provide guidance on the Fed's next interest-rate decision, stating policymakers will debate incoming data at their meeting in four weeks.
- Warsh argued AI-driven capital expenditure is expanding the U.S. economy's demand side now and could eventually grow its supply side — a shift from past eras of financial engineering like share buybacks — with "huge implications for monetary policy."
- Warsh joined ECB President Christine Lagarde, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, and Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem in signaling central banks should move away from explicit forward guidance on rate decisions.
- Lagarde said she regretted feeling "bound and compelled" by forward guidance and instead favors "framework guidance," where the ECB explains its decision-making without pre-committing to a rate path.
Why it matters: Four major central banks — the Fed, ECB, Bank of England, and Bank of Canada — publicly converged on abandoning explicit rate-path forward guidance in a single panel, a coordination that reshapes how traders will interpret future central bank communication and forces markets to price policy off data alone rather than signaled intent.
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