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The cryptocurrency market starts the week on the defensive, losing 1.2% of its capitalisation in 24 hours to $2.27 trillion, although it is still up 3% from a week ago. This drawdown looks like short-term profit-taking from the recent wave of gains amid the risks of the upcoming jobs report and Powell’s comments.

The first cryptocurrency is down 2.6% on Monday, retreating to $64.0K. On the technical side, bitcoin has come under pressure near the upper border of a multi-month downtrend. However, we see this as having more of an emotional component, as we believe that the break above the previous highs and the 200-day moving average served as an important signal of bullish dominance.

Bitcoin is on the verge of its best September since 2012. BTC has gained more than 11% since the beginning of the month, in stark contrast to the typical decline this month. The altcoin index is up more than 20% after easing financial conditions amid a global wave of interest rate cuts by the Fed, ECB and PBC.

Bitcoin closed higher for the third week, hitting its highest level since late July on Friday at around $66,500. The positive momentum in US spot bitcoin ETFs continued through all five trading sessions of the week.