Bitcoin trades in $29K ‘no man’s land’ as Tesla ESG fallout routs stocks

Bitcoin (BTC) remained $1,000 lower on May 19 following a harsh buying and selling session on Wall Street yesterday put pay to help upside.

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

Musk blasts ESG “scam” after S&ampP 500 exit

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $29,000 during the time of writing, getting bounced at $28,600 on Bitstamp.

The happy couple had declined in step with U . s . States equities, using the S&ampP 500 specifically in focus because it set its largest intraday decline since June 2020.

Drama over Tesla, that was taken off the index among ongoing debate, fuelled poor people performance.

The firm’s Chief executive officer, Elon Musk, openly rebuked individuals behind the choice, which made an appearance associated with adherence to so-known as Ecological, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria.

“ESG is really a scam. It’s been weaponized by phony social justice players,” a part of a Twitter response read.

Cathie Wood, founder and Chief executive officer of investment giant Ark Invest, known as the choice to exclude Tesla “absurd” and “not worth associated with a other response.”

As counter-inflation measures start to bite, the outlook for risk assets was at the best certainly one of “consolidation” within the several weeks ahead, some contended.

Popular buying and selling account CredibleCrypto agreed that Bitcoin was copying behavior exhibited through the S&ampP 500 throughout the 2008 Global Financial Trouble.

While bond markets could notionally take advantage of financial tightening by central banks worldwide, little belief continued to be within their investment premise among pro-Bitcoin sources.

Analyst Dylan LeClair, highlighting readings from Vanguard’s Total Bond Market exchange-traded fund (ETF), known as it the “global everything bubble collapsing instantly.”

“It is going to get crazier,” he added at the time.

Outdoors crypto, as Cointelegraph reported, markets commentator Holger Zschaepitz frequently refers back to the situation because the “greatest bond bubble in 800 years.”

Concerns remain over fresh Bitcoin macro low

Coming back to shorter timeframes for Bitcoin, the prognosis continued to be centered on potential moves above $30,000 before a much deeper correction takes hold.

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“Most likely some momentum towards $29.7K possible. Wonder if we are able to hold $29.3K for continuation, but overall I am still expecting a HL to become happening on Bitcoin by which we continue towards $32.8K/$34K,” Cointelegraph contributor Michaël van de Poppe told Twitter supporters overnight.

Fellow trader Crypto Tony meanwhile reiterated his thesis that BTC/USD didn’t actually bottom during last week’s tip to $23,800 which an increased “capitulation” was due.

Yet another publish described the day’s BTC cost action to date to be in “no man’s land.”

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