Financial markets are mostly driven by economic considerations: interest rates, economic growth, specific sectors’ dynamics, and individual companies’ successes or failures. But they are also impacted by the wider events in the world: geopolitical crises, political shifts, and other black swans. For a while, cryptos have mostly been reacting to mostly crypto-related news, especially when the technology was still new, and crypto prices were rising due to increasing awareness and participation of first the greater retail investing public, and then financial institutions. However, in the more recent years, cryptos have ... (full story)