U.S. Payrolls Add Just 29K Jobs as Unemployment Hits 4.2%
Downward revisions to July and August deepen the evidence of a cooling labor market, putting U.S. growth and interest-rate expectations in focus.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
Downward revisions to July and August deepen the evidence of a cooling labor market, putting U.S. growth and interest-rate expectations in focus.
The weaker labor market gives the Fed more reason to hold rates, even as elevated inflation complicates its next decision.
ETF demand helped Bitcoin withstand the bond selloff, but higher rates raised the cost of leverage and weakened the case for low-risk DeFi yields.
Payrolls are forecast to rise by 90,000, with the unemployment rate expected to hold at 4.1%. Gold and tech futures are also edging higher.
The IMF waiver signals a hard ceiling on sovereign Bitcoin adoption: state-level accumulation now carries a formal multilateral cost that other BTC-holding governments will have to price in.
Four of the nine actions are usable today, including Coinbase Clearing's registration; the other five sit in proposal or pre-rule limbo, with the final custody framework still 60 days from any…
A 10-year Treasury yield at 5.34% and a DXY at an 18-month high would normally drag risk assets lower. Bitcoin's overnight push through $86,000 says that decoupling is starting to crack.
The $17B flows behind A7 Network routed through a ruble-backed token built for sanctions evasion, the first OFAC action to anchor a criminal-organization designation around a named stablecoin.
El Salvador, the only country with Bitcoin as legal tender, needed an IMF waiver to keep accumulating.
The waiver is the real signal: the Fund is letting El Salvador keep stacking BTC under a $1.4B program that was supposed to wind adoption down. Sovereign adoption just got a quiet validation.
Williams's Sept 29 hint that another hike might be appropriate just got a 58.6% input-cost reading to back it up. Bitcoin's $85K test is now running into a policy corridor, not just a price level.
A Dow component at decade lows is a macro signal, not a single-stock story. Nike's miss lands as Lululemon, On Holding, and the broader consumer discretionary cohort print the same weakness.
The remarks put consumer costs at the center of a partisan economic argument, without establishing a measured change in prices.
His emphasis on keeping the claimed result in place puts its durability at the center of the US-Iran risk picture.
The gap between the reported and alternative readings puts the strength of US hiring in question, without changing the official figure.
The Russian president's remark presents AI development as an enduring trend, without announcing a government measure or investment commitment.
The president's assessment puts US price pressures in focus for investors weighing the economic outlook.
Expensive sovereign borrowing strengthens Bitcoin’s monetary case, but higher bond returns and competing payment rails complicate the path to adoption.
The sanctions put Iranian manufacturing and transport in focus for investors tracking geopolitical and trade risk.
An analyst argues that business-cycle expansion, rather than a fixed four-year calendar, is the stronger guide to crypto's next move.