Bitcoin

<h2 id="header-0">Key Facts</h2>
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 <li>Bitcoin topped $87,000 on Friday after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, then slipped back to about $85,200 by early afternoon.</li>
 <li>The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 5.16% after the report, then rose to 5.27%, and futures traders put the odds of at least one hike by December at about 87%.</li>
 <li>Tesseract's Oliver Carding says a 10-year real yield above about 3% would make a retest of $80,000 to $82,000 likelier than a run at $90,000.</li>
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A weak US jobs report pushed Bitcoin (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/">BTC</a>) above $87,000 on Friday, until Treasury yields climbed back above Thursday's close. September's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/inflation">inflation</a> report, due Oct. 14, is the next test for both.
The report briefly pulled down yields and the odds of another Fed rate hike. The drop in yields reversed by late morning, and by midday traders were more confident of a December hike than before the data. Tesseract's Oliver Carding ties Bitcoin's next move to inflation-adjusted yields.<tweet-embed url="https://x.com/glassnode/status/2105970835957952745"></tweet-embed>
Weak data can cut both ways for Bitcoin.
"Weak print strengthens the no October hike scenario, but weak is not automatically bullish: soft-but-orderly supports the liquidity trade, a growth scare pulls risk assets, bitcoin potentially included," Sygnum Bank Chief Investment Officer Fabian Dori <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theblock.co/news/markets/2026-10-02-bitcoin-nears-highest-level-january-85000-sell-wall-clears-us-jobs-data-disappoints-417570">told</a> The Block.
<h2 id="header-1">What Did the Jobs Report Show? Hiring Nearly Stalled</h2>
US employers added 29,000 jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">reported</a>, well short of forecasts. Unemployment rose to 4.2%, and July and August were revised lower.
Wage growth also slowed. Smaller pay rises ease the pressure on prices that the Fed has been raising <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/interest-rates">interest</a> rates to contain.
Bitcoin was already higher before the release. Sellers partly filled and then pulled the orders resting near $85,000 overnight, Glassnode <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theblock.co/news/markets/2026-10-02-bitcoin-nears-highest-level-january-85000-sell-wall-clears-us-jobs-data-disappoints-417570">said</a>.
<h2 id="header-2">What Happened After the Report? Bonds and Bitcoin Both Reversed</h2>
The 10-year Treasury yield fell as low as 5.16% in the first hour after the data. By midday it was back at 5.27%, above Thursday's close.
Bitcoin's slide from its morning peak ran alongside that rise.<tweet-embed url="https://x.com/QCPgroup/status/2105961335100186729"></tweet-embed>
Lower Treasury yields reduce what investors give up by holding an asset that pays no interest, such as Bitcoin.
"For Bitcoin, a Treasury relief rally would provide the cleanest upside catalyst," QCP Capital <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.qcpgroup.com/insights/qcp-market-colour-49/">wrote</a> in a note before the report.
<h2 id="header-3">Are Rate Hikes Over? Traders Still Price One in December</h2>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/futures">Futures</a> traders cut the odds of a hike at the Oct. 28 meeting to about 22%, according to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html">CME</a> FedWatch. The tool turns the prices of short-term rate futures into odds for each meeting. Most of that drop came before the report, after remarks from two senior Fed officials this week, CoinDesk <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/02/live-updates-bitcoin-gold-and-tech-futures-edge-higher-as-markets-await-u-s-jobs-report">reported</a>.
Traders also raised the odds of at least one hike by the Dec. 9 meeting to about 87%, higher than on Thursday.
Some analysts read the data as the end of the hiking cycle.
"Unemployment up, inflation down. Sayonara rate hikes," Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/caprioleio/status/2105999919186313327">wrote</a> on X.
The Fed's path matters for Bitcoin beyond any single report. Global <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/liquidity">liquidity</a>, led by the Fed, has explained about a third of Bitcoin's price moves since 2024, CrossBorder Capital founder Michael Howell <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://capitalwars.substack.com/p/bitcoin-gold-and-fed-liquidity">estimated</a> in June.
<h2 id="header-4">What Would Confirm the Move? Real Yields Staying Below 3%</h2>
The real yield is the return on Treasurys after inflation. The 10-year measure stood at 2.88% on Thursday after climbing through September, Treasury <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_real_yield_curve&amp;field_tdr_date_value_month=202610">data</a> show.
Bitcoin traded at $85,171 as of 12:57 p.m. ET, up 1.2% over 24 hours. Glassnode <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theblock.co/news/markets/2026-10-02-bitcoin-nears-highest-level-january-85000-sell-wall-clears-us-jobs-data-disappoints-417570">puts</a> the next cluster of sell orders, or <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/resistance-line-level">resistance</a>, near $87,000.
The report settled October for most traders. The December meeting is still priced for a hike.
"I use a 10-year real yield of about 3% as a monitoring level, and a sustained move above it would make a retest of $80,000 to $82,000 more likely than a run at $90,000," Tesseract Group head of marketing Oliver Carding <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/10/02/crypto-traders-are-in-risk-on-mode-as-bitcoin-dominance-nears-return-to-60">told</a> CoinDesk.

Bitcoin Price Tops $87K on Jobs Report, Slips as Yields Rebound

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