# BTC under $80K as Labor Day oil spike hits > Bitcoin trades near $79,460 on Crypto.com as of ~09:33 UTC Sept. 7 after tagging $80,447. U.S. Labor Day keeps ETF desks dark; weekend tanker strikes lifted oil. - **Source:** https://ptycoin.com/en/posts/2026-09-07-btc-under-80k-labor-day-oil/ - **Published:** 2026-09-07 - **Category:** Markets - **Author:** Lucía - **Tags:** bitcoin, etf, fear-greed, fed, cpi, institutional - **Also published in:** [Español](https://ptycoin.com/es/posts/2026-09-07-btc-under-80k-labor-day-oil/) --- Sunday locked **$80,344.16**. By about **09:33 UTC** on **September 7**, Bitcoin was changing hands near **$79,460** on [Crypto.com Exchange](https://crypto.com/exchange), after tagging **$80,447.24** and printing a session low of **$78,983.12**. The 1D candle is still open. U.S. cash desks are shut for [Labor Day](https://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=Calendar), so this is a holiday book, and the new pressure is crude, not creations. ## Sunday held the line. Monday is giving it back Walk the settled Crypto.com BTC/USDT closes. Thursday settled **$81,270.10**. Friday, after the jobs print, settled **$79,660.75**. Saturday settled **$79,835.99**. Sunday opened on that print and closed **$80,344.16**, the first locked daily close back above $80,000 since Thursday. Monday opened on Sunday's settle, ran up through **$80,447.24**, and has spent the rest of the morning underneath the round number. That high is still about **$823** short of Thursday's close, so the week's best print has not been retaken. The last figure is **intraday**, not a close: the September 7 candle settles at 00:00 UTC. Ethereum is tracking the same slip, not leading it. ETH/USDT last traded near **$2,493.72** at the same snapshot, down about **0.3 percent** on the session after a **$2,461.54–$2,536.44** range. Solana last traded near **$105.12**, down about **1.8 percent**. Neither is telling a different story from bitcoin. They are sitting in the same thin book. ## Crude moved. The ETF sheet did not The holiday is why the wrappers cannot answer. Nasdaq and the NYSE are [closed Monday, September 7](https://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=Calendar), and they reopen Tuesday. [Farside Investors](https://farside.co.uk/btc/) already printed Friday: **+$174.6 million**, with IBIT **+$117.4 million** and FBTC **+$57.2 million** the only two funds off zero. That row, and the **$986.7 million** five-day total from August 31 through September 4, stay frozen until the next cash session. Nothing in this morning's tape is a creation or a redemption. What did move over the weekend is oil. [U.S. Central Command](https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2096247889366290840) said Saturday that American forces struck three Iranian crude carriers, M/T Downy off Kharg Island, M/T Stark 1 near Jask, and M/T Kylo in the Gulf of Oman, after Iranian missiles were launched at two U.S. Navy ships. CENTCOM later posted that [the Kylo had sunk](https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2096397091769565468). [Stars and Stripes](https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-09-05/us-strikes-iran-oil-carriers-22761207.html), quoting the same statement, named Adm. Brad Cooper's line: take out three tankers if two U.S. ships are shot at. [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/07/oil-up-bitcoin-down-as-u-s-strikes-iranian-crude-carriers) put West Texas Intermediate near **$92.72** in its Monday morning snapshot, up about **1 percent** on the session and more than **6 percent** for the first seven days of September, and had bitcoin near **$79,700** on that same read. Higher crude is an inflation input. It does not need a new ETF outflow to lean on risk assets; it leans on the rate path that those assets have been pricing. That path already had a shove on Friday. The [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm) reported August nonfarm payrolls up **162,000**, with unemployment unchanged at **4.1 percent** and average hourly earnings up **0.3 percent** to **$37.75**. July was revised from **−23,000** to **+21,000**. CoinDesk called the print stronger than expected and tied the oil jump to a tighter case for Federal Reserve easing. That is a description of how the tape is being read, not a call on the next decision. The next inflation numbers on the [BLS September calendar](https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/09_sched_list.htm) are the Producer Price Index on **Thursday, September 10** and the Consumer Price Index on **Friday, September 11**, both at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, covering August. The [FOMC then meets September 15–16](https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm), a sitting that includes a Summary of Economic Projections. Those dates are the calendar. They are not a forecast of what the prints or the Committee will do. ## The climb, the jobs fade, and a holiday dip The series pairs settled daily closes (and Monday's still-forming candle) with the [Crypto Fear & Greed Index](https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/). Price left the $77,000s on Thursday, gave some of it back through Friday's jobs print, locked $80,344 on Sunday, and has spent Labor Day morning back under the round number. *BTC price vs the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, August 31–September 7. Thursday settled $81,270. Friday settled $79,661. Sunday settled $80,344. Monday's still-open candle is an intraday read as of ~09:33 UTC, not a settled close. Sources: [Crypto.com Exchange](https://crypto.com/exchange) 1D candles and [alternative.me](https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/).* The composite reads **71** (Greed) this morning, off **73** on Saturday and Sunday and **74** on Friday. Last month it was still **30** (Fear). The gauge has cooled three points from the week's peak while price sits under Sunday's close. That is a modest fade on a holiday tape, not a regime change. Friday's cash row and Sunday's settle are already in the book. What Monday adds is a test the ETF sheet cannot record: the first session back under $80,000 since the Sunday lock, on a day authorized participants are offline and oil is the live headline. An intraday mark near **$79,460** can still finish the day above or below where it sits now, and Tuesday's cash session is where the wrappers get their say. 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