Bitcoin Moves Little on the Week Despite Debt Deal, Inflation Concerns
Bitcoin trades flat to move one step closer to logging its first losing month of 2023. Ether rises slightly but also seems headed for a negative May.
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Bitcoin and ether took slightly divergent paths during the last full week of May. While ether rose 1.5%, bitcoin moved little to recently trade at about $26,700, a little below where it stood last Friday.
Ether’s year-to-date performance gap to bitcoin has narrowed to single digits with ETH gaining 52% YTD versus BTC’s 60% increase. Since May, the ETH/BTC ratio has increased 6.7%. Still both assets are in line to have their first losing month of 2023.
BTC and ETH’s seven-day performance ranked them sixth and 14th among cryptocurrencies with a market cap of $1 billion or more.
The weekly leaders were Render Token (RNDR) and Tron (TRX), up 21.9% and 7.6% respectively, while LDO and ALGO lagged, declining 8.5% and 9.3%

Investors have been focusing on President Joe Biden and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling negotiations. While it’s widely expected that a deal will be reached ahead of the June 1 deadline, the two sides had yet to reach an agreement going into the Memorial Day weekend.
Markets were also weighing Friday’s Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) report showing U.S. prices rising more than expected in April. Core PCE, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.4%, versus expectations of a 0.3% increase.
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