The U.K. government will pay 80% of wages. A global recession of record proportions is a near certainty and coming as soon as next month. Stock markets around the world lost trillions of dollars in value in a matter of hours.
This morning, the Fed promised an open-ended commitment to keep buying assets under its quantitative easing measureseffectively offering to buy the entire market if necessary.
Most people thought that after the virus outbreak, money would go into Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin is considered to be the only safe-haven asset at the time of crisis. But Bitcoin collapsed by 15% after the virus outbreak, thereby defying peoples expectations.
However, it is to be remembered that the value of Bitcoin is driven by demand and not on factors like interest rates and GDP than other fiat currencies depend on. Therefore, the prices of Bitcoin though showing volatility is most of the time, still remain steady when other markets fall.