Employment Too Strong: Initial jobless claims came in below expectations (205,000), showing a tight labor market with no reason for the Fed to cut rates.

​Rate Hike Expectations Reignited: Traders no longer expect rate cuts in 2026 and are even hedging against "rate hike" risks, with global liquidity facing a potential "withdrawal."
​Energy Showdown: Yellen attempts to lower inflation through oil measures, indirectly confirming that price pressures remain substantial.
​📉 Ethereum (ETH) Trend Analysis
​Short-term: Under pressure and consolidating. Affected by high rate expectations, risk assets are shrinking. ETH will likely test support levels in the short term following the broader market, flushing out leverage, with a trend biased toward volatile downside.
​Long-term: Resilience remains. As long as Ethereum's deflation mechanism and ecosystem moat persist, macroeconomic headwinds are only temporary. Ethereum in 2026 will trend more toward a "settlement layer asset," with value accumulating as applications explode.
​Earn profits in bull markets, accumulate coins in bear markets; weather this hawkish storm and you'll see the digital El Dorado$ETH ‌$BTC ‌