Morgan Creek Digital Assets co-founder Anthony Pompliano says the European Central Bank's expected dovish turn will be "Rocket fuel" for Bitcoin.
In a tweet posted on July 26, Pompliano commented on a fresh Bloomberg article investigating the ECB's imminent policy moves - potentially including interest-rate cuts and renewed quantitative easing - designed to boost a faltering Eurozone economy.
"ROCKET FUEL: They're going to cut rates and print money right as we march towards the Bitcoin halving. Buckle up. This will be wild ????". Pompliano had notably recently cited bitcoin's halving - the reduction of mining rewards in half in May 2020 - as being one of the largest drivers of Bitcoin's predicted price appreciation.
Bloomberg's article cited ECB President Mario Draghi's recent comments indicating the institution's intent to deliver another round of monetary stimulus this September.
Notably, the ECB head stated that "On the inflation front, we don't like what we are seeing That's very important."
The ECB president said he anticipates that contractions in Euro area manufacturing could contaminate the services sector, in part due to global trade tensions.
While dismissing the prospect of a broad recession, he stated that consumer-price growth had fallen short of the ECB's goal of just below 2% - justifying calls for significant support.
One Danske Bank economist told Bloomberg he expects 20 basis points of rate cuts from the ECB and more QE, adding: "It's a matter of when and how ECB will act, no longer if."
The United States Federal Reserve is meanwhile expected to cut interest rates next week, while Turkey has just introduced the biggest interest-rate cut since at least 2002.
As recently reported, the head of global fundamental credit strategy at Deutsche Bank has remarked that central banks' dovish policies are positively impacting "Alternative" currencies such as bitcoin while hurting investment banks.
ECB Money Printing Is 'Rocket Fuel' for Bitcoin Price, Says Pompliano
gepubliceerd op Jul 26, 2019
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