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It's the start of the final full trading week of 2025, with traders and investors apparently in "shopping mode".
Major assets are catching a bid after last Friday's (Dec 12) selloff:
Gold (Bybit: XAUUSD+) is back within a hair of the $4348 target - highlighted during our Dec 5th 'Week Ahead' preview livestream, which was hit exactly a week after (Friday, Dec 12) before tumbling away.
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The world's biggest crypto was also subject to declines over the weekend, but has found support from a rising lower-bound trendline that began since that Nov 21st intraday low.
We had drawn this critical support line on the Bitcoin chart since last week:
Still, crypto sentiment remains raw, as the "Market Sentiment meter" has fallen back into "extreme fear" territory:
While major cryptos such as BTC and ETH have been printing higher highs, prices must overcome key psychological hurdles at the $95k and $3.3k lines to the upside respectively, in order to give the crypto complex a fighting chance at shrugging off the woes of Q4 2025 going into the new year.
The Fed policy outlook for 2026 remains in focus, ahead of delayed major US economic data releases, even as other major G10 central banks make their respective rate decisions this week:
Bloomberg model 1-week forecasted trading range: $4222 - $4471
(from past Friday, Dec 12) Bloomberg FX model 1-week forecasted trading range: 0.8700 - 0.8840
Markets predict a 94% chance the BoJ will RAISE its interest rates this week.
NO RATE HIKE would be a major shocker for markets, which may in turn boost the Nikkei225 towards 52,000.