ForexLive Asia FX news wrap: Weekend BTC dump


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Forex news for Asia trading
for Monday
19 April 2021

Bitcoin
dropped sharply over the weekend. Various explanations have been
offered up:

  • US
    Treasury
    eyeing
    increased
    regulation to
    conbat money laundering via digital assets

  • blackouts
    in China’s Xinjiang region said to be caused by a coal mine
    explosion in Xinjiang on April 10 weighing on BTC’s hash rate a
    week later

  • ‘whale’
    selling (ahead of the expected hash rate drop)

The
price of the crypto has stabilised somewhat in the past few hours,
BTC/USD is back above US$57K as I post.

US
stocks opened the week (Sunday night Globex equity futures trade) on
a heavy note, declining initially but since recovering (as I post) to
be positive for the session. Local equity markets in the region
gained.

On
the FX front its been a mixed bag, with EUR quite weak against the
dollar but, after earlier being much the same, some
recovery for AUD,
NZD, GBP means
they are less weaker than EUR. On US political news, Republican
Senators are said to be supportive of a US infrastructure bill at a
lower amount that US President Biden’s proposed $2tln+ amount.

Regional
equities:

  • Japan’s
    Nikkei +0.2%,
    Topix +0.1%

  • China’s
    Shanghai Composite +1.19%

  • Hong
    Kong’s Hang Seng +1%

  • Australia’s
    S&P/ASX 200 +0.21%

Forex news for Asia tradingfor Monday19 April 2021