{"id":88230,"date":"2023-12-13T22:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88230"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:41:37","slug":"fed-holds-key-rate-bitcoin-barely-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fed-holds-key-rate-bitcoin-barely-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed holds key rate. Bitcoin barely moved."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 13, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/pressreleases\/monetary20231213a.htm\">held<\/a> the target range for the federal funds rate at 5.25\u20135.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The decision matched market expectations. The Fed said inflation has fallen over the past year but remains elevated. The agency also noted the unemployment rate is low.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, the Fed aims for 2% inflation and maximum employment.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the cryptocurrency market had barely reacted to the news. According to CoinGecko, prices for the largest-capitalization digital assets showed little movement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29-1024x639.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29\" class=\"wp-image-222090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29-1536x959.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.04.29-2048x1279.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: CoinGecko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bitcoin price breached the $42,000 mark. At the time of writing, the total market capitalization stood at about $1.65 trillion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47\" class=\"wp-image-222091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-12-13-v-22.05.47-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Five-minute BTC\/USDT chart on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In June, the Fed for the first time since March 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fed-keeps-key-rate-bitcoin-briefly-slips-below-26000\">held<\/a> the range for the federal funds rate at 5\u20135.25%. Bitcoin price fell below $26,000.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-unchanged-after-fed-rate-hike\">rose to 5.25-5.5% annualized<\/a>, but crypto prices reacted only modestly to the changes. In September and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fed-holds-key-rate-bitcoin-reacts-tepidly\">November<\/a> they kept the rate at the previous level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 13, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) held the target range for the federal funds rate at 5.25\u20135.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Fed keeps key rate; Bitcoin barely moved.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[480,1249,1224],"class_list":["post-88230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-price","tag-federal-reserve-system","tag-macroeconomics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Fed keeps key rate; Bitcoin barely moved.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88232,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88230\/revisions\/88232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}