Bitcoin spikes 6% on softer US inflation but the CPI record still has holes after the shutdown

At 8:30 a.m. in New York, the world paused for the January U.S. inflation data, and it landed with a soft thud. Headline CPI printed +2.4% year over year, a shade under the +2.5% estimate that had been floating around ahead of the release. Core inflation, the version that strips out food and energy, rose […] The post Bitcoin spikes 6% on softer US inflation but the CPI record still has holes after the shutdown appeared first on CryptoSlate.