{"id":16964,"date":"2026-07-06T02:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btse.com\/blog\/?p=16964"},"modified":"2026-07-06T02:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T02:32:05","slug":"week-ahead-fed-minutes-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.btse.com\/blog\/week-ahead-fed-minutes-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead: Bitcoin Holds Near $63K as Traders Eye Fed Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Bitcoin had hovered near $62K over the weekend, with $63K on Monday, Asia time. Meanwhile, Ethereum stabilized at $1,700.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The market remains <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/cooling-us-jobs-data-buys-fed-stock-market-more-time-2026-07-02\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affected<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by recent macro data like job growth and June payrolls, as fears of a near-term Fed hike have lifted broader risk appetite.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CoinMarketCap\u2019s <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/charts\/fear-and-greed-index\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crypto Fear and Greed Index<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stabilized at 28, slightly increasing from last week at 18, as cautiously optimistic.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16965\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.btse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-06-at-10.28.00-AM.png?resize=1080%2C427&#038;quality=75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.btse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-06-at-10.28.00-AM.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.btse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-06-at-10.28.00-AM-980x387.png 980w, https:\/\/www.btse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-06-at-10.28.00-AM-480x190.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1200px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: inter; color: #000000;\">What Traders Should Watch Out for This Week<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The major focus for this week is still on the market\u2019s interpretation of the Fed path, like <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/week-ahead-for-fx-bonds-fed-minutes-in-focus-e7f43f94\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fed minutes<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Wednesday, and early earnings reports will help shape the next leg of rate and growth expectations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the recent employment data had <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/global-markets-wrapup-1-2026-07-03\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pushed back<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the rate hike expectation, the market is still cautiously watching whether upcoming data confirms the likelihood of future rate hikes.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Here are the major economic indicators to watch out for this week:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">July 6: US services PMI, ISM report on business services PMI, and global services PMI<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">July 8: monthly wholesale trade, Fed minutes, consumer credit<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: inter; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">July 9: weekly jobless claims and existing home sales<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin had hovered near $62K over the weekend, with $63K on Monday, Asia time. Meanwhile, Ethereum stabilized at $1,700.\u00a0 The market remains affected by recent macro data like job growth and June payrolls, as fears of a near-term Fed hike have lifted broader risk appetite.\u00a0 CoinMarketCap\u2019s Crypto Fear and Greed Index stabilized at 28, slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[693,694],"class_list":["post-16964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-insights","tag-fed-minutes","tag-us-job-data"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Week Ahead: Bitcoin Holds Near $63K as Traders Eye Fed Minutes &#8212; 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