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Story: Bitcoin Stays Steady Despite Rising Oil Prices and Fed Rate Hike Speculation

By Maheen Hernandez

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Oil, Rates, and What Traders Are Actually Watching. Rising oil prices tend to feed inflation fears. Inflation fears feed rate hike speculation.

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Bitcoin's August Run and What It Might Mean. Best August since 2017. That stat keeps coming up because it's hard to contextualize without…

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Uncertainty Stays the Theme. There's no clean narrative here yet. Bitcoin had a strong August. Oil is up.

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Bitcoin didn't blink. Oil prices jumped, Fed rate hike chatter got louder, and the market braced — yet Bitcoin just sat there, holding its ground like it had somewhere better to…

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It's a strange moment. The crypto market just wrapped what turned out to be Bitcoin's best August since 2017. That's not a small thing.

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Oil's climb matters here more than it usually would.

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Rising oil prices tend to feed inflation fears. Inflation fears feed rate hike speculation. Rate hike speculation tends to hit risk assets hard — and Bitcoin, whatever anyone…

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The jobs report is pretty much the whole ballgame at this point. The Federal Reserve has been clear — or as clear as the Fed ever gets — that labor market data shapes its…

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No official comment from the Fed. Nothing from any official spokesperson quoted anywhere. The silence is kind of the story — it leaves everyone guessing, which is exactly the…

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Related: Kevin Warshs Call for Rate Hikes Sparks Bond Market Turmoil and Oil Surge

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Investors are watching the interplay between oil, rates, and crypto pretty carefully. The digital asset market doesn't exist in a vacuum — it never really did, despite early…

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The jobs report's findings will land and the market will react. That reaction — not just in equities, but in Bitcoin specifically — will tell a cleaner story about where…

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There's no clean narrative here yet. Bitcoin had a strong August. Oil is up. The Fed hasn't said anything definitive. The jobs report is coming.

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Read also: Tom Lee Predicts Bitcoin Could Soar to $150,000 Ahead of Fed Meeting

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What's clear is that the crypto community isn't ignoring macro data the way it sometimes did in earlier cycles.

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