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Bitcoin confronts first jobs-week test as US job openings data arrives before Friday payrolls
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ET on Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for April, and a market that spent years branding Bitcoin as an escape hatch from central banks now hangs on whatever the numbers imply about the Federal Reserve's next move.
Key facts
- Bitcoin is -5.93% over the past 24 hours and currently sits at rank # 1 by market cap
- Tuesday's release opens a dense run of labor data, with ADP private payrolls on Wednesday, jobless claims on Thursday, and the official nonfarm payrolls report on Friday, where economists pencil
- In the March release, openings sat at 6.87 million, the quits rate held at a subdued 2.0%, and layoffs edged up to 1.87 million, showing a labor market that's been loosening at a measured pace
- The June meeting raises those stakes further, because it doubles as Kevin Warsh's debut as Fed chair after he was sworn in on May 22, succeeding Jerome Powell
Summary
This is due to a long chain of cause and effect, where a cooling jobs market gives policymakers room to lower rates, softens the dollar, and pulls capital toward riskier assets, while a hot one keeps the case for elevated rates intact and the financial conditions Bitcoin leans on tight. JOLTS has never been a major release, but it now sits at the front of a crowded labor week, the first major data point before Friday's payrolls report and the Fed's pre-meeting blackout.
JOLTS tracks four things that together capture the temperature of the American jobs market: how many positions employers are trying to fill, how many people they hire, how many workers quit, and how many get laid off.