sentiment: 🟥 Structural Panic with Flight to Safe Havens — the system wobbles, and capital rushes to gold
✨⚜️✨And gold takes command of global markets ✨⚜️✨
🧨 The system wobbles when politics touches the central bank.
This Monday, the US dollar plummeted to three-year lows amid statements from the White House suggesting a possible restructuring of the Federal Reserve — and, with it, the end of its historical independence.
At 08:55 (ET), the DXY index retreated −1.2%, quoted at 98.21, after hitting 98.164 minutes before. The Swiss franc surged, the euro broke $1.15, and the pound reached its highest level since September. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar fell to its lowest value in seven months.
The Australian dollar, in turn, exploded to a four-month high.
The words of economic advisor Kevin Hassett lit the fuse:
🗣️“Trump and his team are analyzing whether they can dismiss Jerome Powell.”
The threat revives the ghost of political interference over the Fed — and the market reacted in the most basic way possible: selling dollars, buying gold, and fleeing to where there is less noise.
With European, Hong Kong, and Australian markets closed for Easter Monday, global liquidity was concentrated in the United States and Asia — and the impact was immediate on currency pairs, metals, and risk appetite.💸
🇨🇳 Meanwhile, in Beijing, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) kept its reference rate unchanged:
• LPR 1 year: 3.1%
• LPR 5 years (mortgages): 3.6%
🙅♂️The message is clear: Beijing has frozen interest rates and is placing the burden of economic recovery on fiscal stimulus.
The yuan responded strongly:
• Offshore USD/CNH fell 0.2%, with signs of institutional stability and reduction of exchange rate risk in the short term.
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🏆 At the center of it all, gold.
With the dollar falling, the Fed pressured, and China in monetary containment, the precious metal once again assumes the role that the market assigns to it in times of disorder: leadership. 10:55. ✅
💥🙅♂️💥REAL HEADLINES – April 21
💥• US Secretary of Defense discusses attack details in Yemen with Trump
💥• Salesforce's core business neglected in the transition to AI, says DA Davidson in downgrade of the company
💥• US dollar plummets amid concerns over Trump’s threat to the independence of the Fed
💥• Shares of Tempest Therapeutics rise after orphan drug designation by the FDA
💥• Google faces trial in attempt to end search monopoly in the US
💥• Chinese state funds reduce investments in private equity companies
💥• Amazon shares receive rare downgrade recommendation and new minimum price target
💥• Tehran and Washington advance in nuclear discussions
💥• Oil prices fall amid nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran
💥• Economic Calendar: Empty week with Trump targeting Fed and Powell after tariffs
💥• Today's bitcoin price: jumps 3% to $87,500 with dollar drop after threat to the Fed
⚫️• Pope Francis dies, announces the Vatican ⚫️
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📉 US INDICES – April 21, 10:51 am
🍎 S&P 500: 5,208.13 (−2.59%)
The benchmark of the American markets sinks 74.57 points amid institutional distrust provoked by Trump and geopolitical tension in the Middle East. Investors flee from risk en masse.
🍎 Dow Jones: 38,627.03 (−2.55%)
Blue chips plummet under intense pressure on the industrial and financial sector. The fear of a rupture in the independence of the Fed is at the center of the sell orders.
🍎 Nasdaq: 15,997.75 (−2.92%)
The technology index leads the losses, sinking nearly 300 points. Google and Apple operate in decline after a new judicial offensive by the US government against digital monopolies.
🍎 S&P/TSX (Canada): 24,154.59 (−0.94%)
The Canadian index falls more contained, but still pressures with falling oil and lower flow to energy commodities after the start of nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran.
✨🙅♂️✨Block conclusion: US markets are experiencing a significant drop this Monday morning. The institutional collapse generated by the White House statements about the Fed, combined with tensions with Russia, Iran, and judicial pressure against big techs, are imposing a new round of risk aversion. It’s red on Wall Street — and this time, it’s not technical. It’s structural.
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📉 US STOCKS – April 21 | Heat Map in Total Collapse
🍎 Microsoft (MSFT): −1.95%
Second consecutive drop, with pressure coming from institutional flight and aversion to technology amid the political crisis at the Fed.
🍎 Apple (AAPL): −2.75%
Plummets with the deepening of the antitrust scenario in the US. Investors anticipate a possible judicial defeat and impacts on margins.
🍎 Google (GOOG): −2.30%
In free fall after the opening of a trial against its search monopoly. Regulatory risk drives away even passive funds.
🍎 Amazon (AMZN): −3.13%
Extends the downfall with a new round of downgrades and negative projections from major asset managers. Strong outflow of capital.
🍎 NVIDIA (NVDA): −5.20%
The biggest drop of the day among the big techs. Brutal correction in the chip sector, driven by geopolitical fears and technical realization.
🍎 Tesla (TSLA): −6.69%
Total collapse. Stocks plunge amid reports of production decline in China and rumors of aggressive price cuts.
🍏 Meta (META): +2.92%
Remains the only green bastion among the giants. Expectations of spin-offs and AI projects hold speculative buyers.
🍎 Oracle (ORCL): −4.52%
Corrects violently after weeks of gains. Selling volume suggests technical capitulation.
🍎 Netflix (NFLX): −2.92%
Continues to melt down after a lukewarm earnings season and expectations of global growth slowdown.
🍎 JPMorgan (JPM): −1.41%
The banking sector enters total defensive mode with institutional noise and a real threat to the independence of the Fed.
🍎 Visa (V): −2.42%
Plummets along with the financial sector. The prospect of a contraction in global consumption weighs heavily on the stock.
🔻 Block Conclusion: The collapse of the US stock market deepens with the implosion of big techs and the financial sector. Tesla and NVIDIA lead the bleeding with drops exceeding 5%, while Apple and Google contribute to the destruction with significant losses. Red dominates the map — and the reason is clear: institutional instability, geopolitical crisis, and loss of confidence in the central pillar of the global monetary system. Today, even Nasdaq cannot hold. Only Meta survives — and purely out of speculation, there is no protection outside of metals. Stocks are being sacrificed en masse. The institutional collapse generated by the White House statements about the Fed, combined with tensions with Russia, Iran, and judicial pressure against big techs, are imposing a new round of risk aversion. It’s red on Wall Street — and this time, it’s not technical. It’s structural.
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💫🙅♂️💫CRYPTOCURRENCIES – | BTC reacts, DOGE leads, and Saylor goes heavy
Sentiment 🔵 Technical Momentum with Residual Caution — Volume increases, but the investor remains selective and distrustful
🧠 Widespread rise, but caution still dominates
The crypto market records a capitalization increase to $2.74 trillion (+3.09%), with the CMC100 index rising +2.97%. Despite the positive technical movement, the Fear and Greed Index stalls at 34 points (fear zone), showing that optimism is still contained. The Altcoin index remains stagnant (16/100), signaling that the flow is still concentrated in major assets — particularly in Bitcoin, after new institutional purchases.
In the week between April 14 and 20, Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 6,556 BTC at an average price of $84,785, totaling $555.8 million financed by stock issuance (MSTR and STRK). The strategy raises the company's total position to 538,200 BTC purchased at an average cost of $67,766.
✨The volume in spot BTC ETFs has risen again, with $106.9 million in the last daily record (04/16). For Ethereum, the balance remains zero.
📊 Main Cryptocurrencies (11:03 BR)
• 🍏 $BTC Breaks the $87,000 range with technical momentum and massive institutional purchase by Saylor. Increasing volume and resumption of market dominance
• 🍏 $ETH Partially recovers, but still accumulates -2.70% for the week. Zeroed ETFs reinforce the institutional recovery delay in ETH.
• 🍏 $XRP Remains firm above $2 after moving average crossover. Analysts project a target between $3 and $27 with a possible ETF on the radar
• 🍏 BNB (BNB): $601.40 (+1.88%)
Supports $600 with technical support and massive use in DeFi networks. Moderate but stable movement.
• 🍎 Solana (SOL): $137.14 (-0.32%)
Realizes profits after strong weekly increase (+3.95%). Momentary selling pressure in resistance areas.
• 🍏 USDC (USDC): $1.00 (0.00%)
Stable. No anomaly. Institutional supply and parity intact.
• 🍏 Dogecoin (DOGE): $0.16031 (+3.69%)
Day leader with significant rise after Doge Day. Growing expectations around the approval of the 4 DOGE ETFs by the SEC.
• 🍎 TRON (TRX): $0.24182 (-1.34%)
Corrects strongly after recent hype. Weekly drop of -5.50% raises alert for realization.
• 🍏 Cardano (ADA): $0.6399 (+3.98%)
Strong recovery in support zone. Accumulates +4% in the last 24h and aims for $0.70 as new resistance.
• 🍏 Lido Staked ETH (stETH): $1,621.14 (+3.13%)
Reflects the recovery movement of ETH with lower volatility. Growing institutional interest.
• 🍏 Wrapped BTC (WBTC): $87,270.59 (+3.50%)
Aligns with BTC spot, reflecting the return of capital to safe and tokenized derivatives.
✨🙅♂️✨Conclusion: The week begins with positive flow, but still within a defensive structure. BTC leads strongly after visible institutional purchases, while DOGE attracts speculative liquidity. The altcoin market has yet to confirm a solid recovery, and institutional fear remains visible in ETF data and confidence index.
👩🚀The investor continues to operate based on the chart, on the small caps, and on Saylor — in this order.
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💸 EXCHANGE – | Dollar plunges, euro resists, real oscillates
The dollar index (DXY) fell to 98.047 points (-1.09%) at 11:09, pressured by the White House statements about the possible dismissal of Jerome Powell. The threat to the independence of the Fed generated an immediate response from the foreign exchange market, with emerging and major currencies reacting strongly.
📊 Quotes (11:09 BR)
• 🍏 USD/BRL: 5.8073 (+0.01%)
Real is practically stable. The appreciation of the dollar is offset by external flow and local demand for risk.
• 🍎 EUR/BRL: 6.6050 (-0.14%)
Euro loses slight strength against the real, correcting after advances in recent days.
• 🍏 EUR/USD: 1.1515 (+1.09%)
Significant advance of the euro with flight from the US dollar. Heading towards 1.16 if the chaos at the Fed continues.
• 🍏 GBP/USD: 1.3401 (+0.80%)
The British pound rises strongly with technical support and a more stable inflationary environment in the UK.
• 🍎 USD/JPY: 140.69 (-1.04%)
Dollar melts against the yen with a flow to Asian safety. New 7-month low.
• 🍏 EUR/JPY: 161.99 (+0.02%)
Slight rise. European currencies continue to gain strength even in cross pairs.
• 🍏 USD/TRY: 38.2023 (+1.46%)
The Turkish lira weakens strongly. Movement amplified by internal volatility and US interest rates.
• 🍏 BTC/USD: 87,219.0 (+3.28%)
Bitcoin surges with dollar weakness and institutional purchases. New high for April.
• 🍏 ETH/USD: 1,612.00 (+2.19%)
Ethereum follows BTC, but with less intensity. ETFs still absent in the short term.
• 🍏 EUR/GBP: 0.8593 (+0.33%)
Slight advance of the euro against the pound. The crossover remains lateralized in a neutral zone.
• 🍏 AUD/USD: 0.6424 (+0.75%)
Australian dollar rises with risk appetite and lower global aversion. Benefited by the open Asian market.
✨🙅♂️✨Conclusion: The dollar sinks globally with heightened institutional risk after Trump’s statements about the Fed. The flight from the American currency boosts the euro, pound, yen, and even risk currencies like AUD and TRY. The real remains stable, while BTC and ETH take advantage of the liquidity released.
✨💥✨COMMODITIES | Gold explodes, oil sinks — the contrast of currency war
⛏️ This Monday morning marks another chapter in the collapse of the dollar and the flight to real assets. Gold has become the epicenter of this movement — now breaking records in series while oil plummets with the rapprochement between the US and Iran.
✨📈✨Gold (GC)
• $3,438.19 (+3.30%)
• June 2025: $3,435.16 (+3.21%)
• New historical record driven by fears over the Fed and institutional crisis after Trump’s remarks. Volume spikes. Demand from central banks and global instability continue to fuel the escalation.
🥈 Silver: $32.85 (+1.17%)
🪙 Copper: $4.7833 (+0.93%)
🛢️ WTI Oil: $61.97 (-3.19%)
🛢️ Brent Oil: $65.85 (-3.10%)
Negotiations between Tehran and Washington push oil to the lowest level in weeks. The nuclear deal is back on the table and pressures supply expectations.
🔥 Natural Gas: $3.133 (-3.45%)
⛽ RBOB Gasoline: $2.0464 (-2.50%)
⛽ London Diesel: $617.13 (-2.43%)
✨🙅♂️✨Block conclusion: Gold is on track to consolidate its position as an uncontested store of value by 2025. With the Fed under political pressure, persistent inflation, and signs of breaking in the interest rate cycle, precious metals remain the global refuge of choice. Meanwhile, oil feels the weight of geopolitical negotiations — and the possibility of a new deal with Iran.
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🧠 Final Market Diagnosis — 21
Sentiment 🟥 Structural Panic with Flight to Safe Havens — the system wobbles, and capital rushes to gold
The global market woke up under the domino effect of an explicit threat to the heart of US monetary stability.
The words of advisor Kevin Hassett, suggesting that President Trump is considering the dismissal of Jerome Powell, triggered a brutal chain reaction: the dollar plummeted to three-year lows, gold broke historical records, and American indices collapsed.
The widespread drop in stocks, the plunge of the DXY, the flight of capital to the Swiss franc, euro, and even the yen — all point to a scenario that is not technical, it is structural. The Fed is under open political attack, and the monetary independence of the US is being put to the test, live, on a global network.
Meanwhile, China freezes interest rates and stabilizes the yuan.
The contrast is striking: the East seems calm — the West, in flames.
In the center of the board, gold assumes command as the supreme protection asset, dethroning the dollar.
On the sidelines, Bitcoin breaks $87,000 with direct support from Michael Saylor, who bought over $500 million in BTC.
And on the fringes, stocks, oil, and technology bleed, victims of legal, geopolitical, and monetary uncertainty.
Today, the chart does not dictate. Politics does.
And when the Fed trembles, the market does not retreat — it runs.
