Bitcoin marked its first weekly decline since Donald Trump’s election victory as the Federal Reserve’s cautious policy outlook tempered optimism over the president-elect’s embrace of the crypto sector.
The largest digital asset was down more than 7% for the seven-day period through 9:27 a.m. Monday in Singapore, the biggest such drop since September.
The Fed's hawkish pivot and a record outflow from US exchange traded funds investing directly in Bitcoin are expected to weigh on prices in the near term.
Bitcoin is currently trading at about $94,344, nearly $14,000 below the record high set on Dec. 17.