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Morning brief: Jobs print due; bitcoin slides overnight

The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the October Employment Situation at 8:30 a.m. ET. Bitcoin traded at $76,038 at 6:28 a.m. ET, down 5.23% over 24 hours.

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Morning brief: Jobs print due; bitcoin slides overnight

What matters today

Overnight crypto

AssetNow (6:28 a.m. ET)24h change
Bitcoin (BTC)$76,038−5.23%
Ether (ETH)$2,237.59−7.47%
Solana (SOL)$90.20−6.54%
BNB$694.48−3.08%
XRP$1.19−9.62%

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All five majors fell over the 24 hours to about 6:28 a.m. ET, according to CoinGecko. [4]

Bitcoin's share of total crypto market value stood at 59.93% as of 5:15 a.m. ET, and CoinMarketCap's Fear and Greed Index read 32 (Fear) at 5:08 a.m. ET. Data: CoinMarketCap. [7]

Figure 1. Movers, top 50 by market cap, excluding stablecoins, wrapped and staked tokens, tokenized gold, cash-like funds and meme coins, 24 hours to about 6:28 a.m. ET:

Least down24h changeDecliners24h change
LEO Token (LEO)−0.11%XRP (XRP)−9.69%
TRON (TRX)−0.14%Ethena (ENA)−7.80%
Aave (AAVE)−2.44%Bitcoin Cash (BCH)−7.47%
NEAR Protocol (NEAR)−7.08%

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No catalyst is sourced for these moves. [4]

Liquidations

Crypto short liquidations totaled $97.0 million and long liquidations $680.5 million over the 24 hours to 6:28 a.m. ET. Non-crypto perpetual futures on stocks, ETFs, indexes and energy added at least $44.8 million in shorts and $382.3 million in longs; that figure is a floor, from CoinMarketCap's top-250 list only. Data: CoinMarketCap. [8]

Figure 2. Largest crypto liquidations, 24 hours to 6:28 a.m. ET (24h price change in parentheses):

CoinShortsLongs
Bitcoin (−5.2%)$33.9M$281.1M
Ether (−7.5%)$30.9M$167.6M
Solana (−6.7%)$3.6M$39.2M
XRP (−9.7%)$0.7M$21.8M
Hyperliquid (−4.7%)$0.4M$21.2M

Data: CoinMarketCap. Price changes are CoinMarketCap quotes and differ slightly from the CoinGecko figures above.

What printed

01 · BLS Employment Situation is due this morning. The November schedule and BLS ICS list the October Employment Situation for today at 8:30 a.m. ET. As of about 6:28 a.m. ET the release page still showed September 2026. [1]

02 · TeraWulf's third-quarter call is at 8:00 a.m. ET. The IR notice says the company will host the call and webcast today and will issue results prior to the call. [2]

03 · Thailand's SEC filed a criminal complaint against Bitget; access block from Dec. 5. News No. 241/2026 (Nov. 5) says the SEC filed with the Economic Crime Suppression Division against BG Limited, provider of bitget.com, for operating a digital-asset exchange without a license. A criminal complaint is not a conviction. The SEC notified the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society to block www.bitget.com, other Bitget domains and its application from Dec. 5, 2026. [9]

04 · Midterm results still await certification. Outcomes become official only when state authorities certify them. [10]

On the calendar

Time (ET)Event
4:10 / 4:30 a.m.ECB: Donnery keynote; Lane fireside (Frankfurt; already occurred)
8:00 a.m.TeraWulf (WULF) third-quarter call
8:30 a.m.BLS Employment Situation, October 2026
12:15 p.m.Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman
TodayDevcon (Ethereum), Mumbai — last day
Mon 5:00 p.m.MARA Holdings third-quarter call
MonTreasury auctions 3-year note; 6-, 13- and 26-week bills
Mon 6:50 p.m.Bank of Japan Summary of Opinions (Oct. 29–30 meeting; Tuesday morning in Tokyo)
Tue 8:30 a.m.BLS Consumer Price Index (and Real Earnings)
TueTreasury auctions 10-year note; announces 4-, 8- and 17-week bills
Wed Nov. 11Veterans Day (Fed holiday)
Thu Nov. 12Treasury auctions 30-year bond; 4-, 8- and 17-week bills
Nov. 20–Dec. 9France's Senate first reading of the 2027 budget bill
Date unconfirmedZcash NU7 activation height not yet set

Sources: [1]–[3], [5], [6], [11]–[14].

The tell (Le Coin's view)

In Le Coin's view, the morning's dated items are still pending on the page: the jobs print has not yet posted, and TeraWulf's results sit ahead of the 8:00 a.m. ET call. Overnight, the majors fell while the largest crypto liquidations sat on long bitcoin and ether positions.

Sources (14)

  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/bls.ics , https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm and https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/empsit.htm , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28 a.m. ET.
  2. TeraWulf call notice, https://investors.terawulf.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/147/terawulf-schedules-conference-call-for-third-quarter-2026-financial-results ; MARA call notice, https://ir.mara.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1428/mara-schedules-third-quarter-2026-earnings-release-and-conference-call ; accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28 a.m. ET.
  3. Federal Reserve calendar, https://www.federalreserve.gov/json/calendar.json , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28 a.m. ET.
  4. Prices: Powered by CoinGecko API (https://www.coingecko.com/en/api). Majors BTC/ETH/SOL from /simple/price (last updated about 6:27:57–6:28:17 a.m. ET); BNB/XRP and movers from /coins/markets; accessed Nov. 6, 2026, 6:28:35 a.m. ET.
  5. Devcon, https://devcon.org/en/ , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28–6:30 a.m. ET.
  6. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI schedule, https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/cpi.htm , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28 a.m. ET.
  7. Prices and market data: CoinMarketCap, https://coinmarketcap.com , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, 5:18 a.m. ET. Bitcoin dominance 5:15 a.m. ET and Fear and Greed Index 5:08 a.m. ET.
  8. CoinMarketCap liquidations, 24 hours to 6:28 a.m. ET Nov. 6, 2026, https://coinmarketcap.com , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, 6:28 a.m. ET.
  9. Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission, News No. 241/2026, https://www.sec.or.th/EN/Pages/News_Detail.aspx?Lang=EN&NewsNo=241&NewsYear=2026&SECID=13530 , accessed Nov. 5, 2026, about 12:06 p.m. ET.
  10. USA.gov election results, https://www.usa.gov/election-results , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28–6:30 a.m. ET.
  11. U.S. Treasury tentative auction schedule, https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/221/Tentative-Auction-Schedule.pdf ; ECB weekly schedule, https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/calendars/weekly/html/index.en.html ; accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28 a.m. ET.
  12. Bank of Japan MPM schedule, https://www.boj.or.jp/en/mopo/mpmsche_minu/index.htm , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28–6:30 a.m. ET.
  13. Zcash NU7, https://z.cash/upgrade/nu7/ , accessed Nov. 6, 2026, about 6:28–6:30 a.m. ET.
  14. Sénat budget calendar, https://www.senat.fr/ordre-du-jour/files/Calendrier_budgetaire_2027.pdf ; accessed 10:25 a.m. ET Nov. 4 (carried).

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