BTC price cracks $41K as hopes of peace in Eastern Europe send Bitcoin higher

bitcoin (BTC) returned above $41,000 before Wall Street opened on March 16, as good news from Asia and Russia buoyed shares.

BTC/USD 1-hour candlestick chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

BTC on track to close the week higher

Data of Markets Cointelegraph Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD keeping $41,000 in focus after the Chinese government promised new economic support.

Beijing announced the move after weeks of tumultuous action in Chinese markets, with tech stocks suffering particularly.

Now, Vice Premier Liu He said, the government would "actively publish market-friendly policies," media outlets such as the China South Morning Post informed.

The result was a strong rebound in local markets, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index gaining more than 20% on the day.

Bitcoin also reacted, breaking up amid a tense geopolitical atmosphere of warfare in Europe and an imminent announcement on interest rates from the US Federal Reserve.

The latest news from the Ukraine-Russia peace talks further boosted performance, with negotiators supposedly approaching a kind of peace plan.

For traders, the short-term outlook was slowly but surely starting to look more promising.

"All eyes on the FOMC meeting, which will likely result in a false move first, before the real move, and then end in a panic move overall, as markets are determined by panic moves" , Michaรซl van de Poppe, Cointelegraph contributor. aggregate.

The FOMC, or Federal Open Market Committee, was due to report at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, followed by a press conference by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell at 2:30 p.m.

US Stocks Follow China's Lead After S&P 500 "Death Crossing"

Meanwhile, despite a "death cross" in the S&P 500 on Tuesday, US markets started Wednesday in the green.

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The S&P gained 1.3% at the open, while the popular Nunya Bizniz Twitter account noted that both that index and Bitcoin have historically tended to bottom out right after such a crossover occurs.

A death cross refers to the 50-period moving average crossing below the 200-period moving average during downturns.