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Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price">BTC</a>) saw flash downside volatility into the June 7 Wall Street open as United States payrolls data surprised markets.
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<h2 data-ct-non-breakable="true" id="bitcoin-wobbles-on-highly-mixed-u-s-jobs-data">Bitcoin wobbles on highly mixed U.S. jobs data</h2>
Data from <a href="https://subscription.cointelegraph.com/?_gl=1*7499wx*_ga*MTQ0MzQ0NzI4Ny4xNzE2MzY1NTA0*_ga_53R24TEEB1*MTcxNjM2NTUwNC4xLjEuMTcxNjM2Njg2MC4wLjAuMA..">Cointelegraph Markets Pro</a> and <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTCUSD/?exchange=BINANCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">TradingView</a> showed a $1,300 BTC price dip within a single hourly candle before a rebound entered.
Bitcoin joined a knee-jerk reaction to U.S. nonfarm payrolls data, which vastly beat expectations to suggest that the labor market was coping with tight fiscal policy better than forecast.
This, in turn, pushed back the odds of the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates — a key prerequisite for a liquidity influx into risk assets and crypto.
“It does close the door on July rate cut,” economist Mohamed El-Erian responded, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2024-06-07/us-employment-report-for-may?cursorId=6663002AB2240000" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">quoted</a> by Bloomberg.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) was due to meet on June 12 to discuss rates, with markets now seeing little prospect of a cut resulting from the next three such meetings.
Per data from CME Group’s <a href="https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">FedWatch Tool</a>, the odds of a minimum 0.25% decrease stood at 0.6%, 8.8% and 50.8% for the June, July and September FOMC meetings, respectively, at the time of writing.
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 Fed target rate probabilities (screenshot). Source: CME Group
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Other reactions noted the curious contrast between strong payrolls and unemployment, which at the same time rose to 4% — 0.1% above the predicted level.
“The US labor market looks completely schizophrenic,” commentator Holger Zschaepitz wrote in a <a href="https://x.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1799061760718332006" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">post</a> on X.
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 “While the Establishment survey by BLS reports 272k new jobs for May, the Household survey shows a large drop in the number of employed, down 408k jobs. This is why the US unemployment rate has risen from 3.9 to 4% despite a lower labor participation rate.”
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 U.S. labor market data. Source: Holger Zschaepitz/X
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<h2 data-ct-non-breakable="true" id="btc-price-stays-wedged-in-tight-area">BTC price stays wedged in “tight area”</h2>
Turning to BTC price action itself, market participants chose to take a backseat, while volatility resolved itself.
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Popular trader Daan Crypto Trades <a href="https://x.com/DaanCrypto/status/1799056951181287668" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">noted</a> that BTC/USD remained below key resistance, as before the data prints, while fellow trader Skew <a href="https://x.com/52kskew/status/1799072893705556098" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">said</a> that spot bidders were needed to fuel the uptrend.
“Tight area here generally with previous highs &amp; resistance ($71.6K),” he <a href="https://x.com/52kskew/status/1799077589077885246" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">added</a> in one of various X posts.
Data from monitoring resource CoinGlass showed thickening liquidity both above and below spot price, with $72,600 now a focus for resistance — <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-retest-69k-shorts-btc-price-below-all-time-high">up from $71,900</a> earlier on the day.
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 BTC liquidation heatmap (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass
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“Still consolidating between the two major support &amp; resistance levels at $67K &amp; $72K,” Daan Crypto Trades <a href="https://x.com/DaanCrypto/status/1799079615819886762/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">concluded</a>.
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 “The longer price consolidates below this resistance, the more likely it is to break in my opinion. We’ll just patiently wait :)”
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An accompanying chart showed recent higher highs, lower highs, lower lows and higher lows for BTC/USD, highlighting the overall <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/btc-price-hold-70k-bitcoin-ecb-rate-cut">sideways trading environment</a>.
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