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Bitcoin nears $80,000 as mixed CPI print fans the Fed rate debate

9/12/2026

Friday's Bureau of Labor Statistics release handed markets a split verdict on inflation, and $BTC absorbed the initial selloff before reversing.

Headline CPI printed at 3.4% year over year and 0.4% month over month, both in line with consensus, while the monthly core reading came in at 0.3%, a tick above the 0.2% analysts had penciled in.

Bitcoin now trades near $79,007, up 3.24% on the session, with the Federal Reserve's September 15-16 meeting the next hard catalyst.

Bitcoin opened Friday at $76,529, briefly touched a session low of $76,040 in the minutes following the print, then reversed.

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