How Litecoin reacts to macro news
LTC moves 1.7× a normal hour after FOMC; 25% of releases give it a top-10% hour.
Litecoin has data for 1,327 scheduled macro releases across 10 event types. The biggest typical +1h move (median size, either direction) came after US Consumer Price Index (CPI) (±0.95%, 1.5× a normal hour), the smallest after UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) (±0.42%, 1.1× a normal hour).
Next release that moves LTC: FOMC rate decision,
Every event, ranked by how much it moves LTC
Ranked by the move multiple: the median move after a release vs a matched normal hour. "Top-10%" is how often a release gives a move bigger than 90% of normal ones (10% would be no different from normal). Impact is the event's site-wide rating (see methodology). Typical move sizes by window follow (median absolute move, either direction). Click a column to sort; click an event for every release.
| Event | × normal | Top-10% | Impact | +5m | +1h | +4h | +24h | % up +1h | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOMC rate decision | 1.7× | 25% | High | 0.42% | 0.57% | 1.23% | 3.67% | 62% | 73 |
| US Consumer Price Index (CPI) | 1.5× | 29% | High | 0.38% | 0.95% | 1.23% | 2.68% | 50% | 111 |
| US Producer Price Index (PPI) | 1.4× | 11% | Medium | 0.25% | 0.57% | 1.14% | 2.56% | 56% | 111 |
| US GDP (advance estimate) | 1.4× | 5% | Medium | 0.23% | 0.46% | 0.84% | 1.83% | 41% | 37 |
| US Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) | 1.3× | 6% | High | 0.37% | 0.58% | 0.99% | 2.05% | 55% | 111 |
| Bank of England rate decision | 1.3× | 14% | Low | 0.16% | 0.45% | 1.02% | 2.15% | 51% | 74 |
| US retail sales | 1.2× | 13% | Low | 0.24% | 0.57% | 1.33% | 2.11% | 51% | 109 |
| UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) | 1.1× | 13% | Low | 0.13% | 0.42% | 0.87% | 2.64% | 49% | 111 |
| US PCE inflation (Personal Income and Outlays) | 1.1× | 19% | Medium | 0.22% | 0.52% | 1.07% | 2.15% | 45% | 109 |
| US initial jobless claims | 1.0× | 9% | Low | 0.20% | 0.46% | 1.16% | 2.45% | 50% | 481 |
Past releases, not a forecast. Typical sizes hide big differences between individual releases; open an event to see them all.
Recaps where LTC moved most
Event recaps ranked by the size of LTC's first-hour move. All event recaps →
- FOMC · 15 Mar 2020 +9.93%
- FOMC · 23 Mar 2020 +8.89%
- US CPI · 10 Nov 2022 +6.90%
- US CPI · 14 Mar 2023 +6.60%
- US CPI · 11 May 2022 -5.95%