Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Price Analysis This Week: CPI Data in Focus

MACROECONOMICSBitcoin, Ethereum and XRPPrice Analysis This Week: CPIData in Focus38IMPORTANCECLOSED2NEWS MEDIA2PIECESOct 12, 2026 07:38blockboard.net

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Chainlink were described as trading around key levels while the market looked ahead to Wednesday’s U.S. CPI release. Another preview framed the coming week around U.S. inflation data and Ethereum upgrade discussions, with investors expecting the Federal Reserve to keep rates unchanged in October and to raise them in December.

What this rests on

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Bitcoin was trading between key support and resistance levels, while bearish divergence was limiting its short-term momentum.
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Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Chainlink were also consolidating around important price levels.
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U.S. inflation data was set to test the interest-rate outlook ahead of the Federal Reserve’s October meeting, and investors were expecting the central bank to keep rates unchanged in October and increase them in December.

What it means

Who it affects, what changes and what is still unconfirmed

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Traders in Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Chainlink are the first to notice this, because those coins were already described as moving around key levels. The next major calendar item was Wednesday’s U.S. CPI release, which was being watched alongside those price ranges.

Market reaction

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How the story was built

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What Inflation (US CPI) has done before

WhenWhat happenedFigure
2 months ago Inflation (US CPI): 336.298 (+2.17) rise Sep 2026
3 months ago Inflation (US CPI): 334.131 (+1.32) rise Aug 2026
4 months ago Inflation (US CPI): 332.813 (+0.25) rise Jul 2026
5 months ago Inflation (US CPI): 332.568 (-1.41) fall Jun 2026
6 months ago Inflation (US CPI): 333.979 (+1.57) rise May 2026

FRED series, with the value of each release and its change.

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