Bitcoin Price Falls 14% in a Week to $65,000 as Weekend Selling Breaks Friday’s Low

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Bitcoin Price Falls 14% in a Week to $65,000 as Weekend Selling Breaks Friday’s Low

Bitcoin price crashed about 14% over the past week and was trading near $65,200 on Saturday morning after sliding to about $65,000, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data. The move broke below Friday’s low of about $67,555 and marked the weakest level since mid-August, as weekend trading extended a selloff that has followed a stronger dollar and a fully priced December Federal Reserve rate hike.

A week ago, on Nov. 7, bitcoin was trading near $75,750. The decline steepened after Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang resigned on Thursday, a shake-up that caused AI stocks to sell off which could potentially be responsible for sending bitcoin below $72,000. It slipped toward $71,000 by Thursday evening, then crashed to about $67,555 around midnight Eastern on Friday, its lowest level since August, before recovering toward $69,800 in the morning.

A brief pop above $70,000 after the producer-price report faded, and the bitcoin price spent Friday afternoon pinned below $70,000, near $68,900.

Selling resumed Friday evening and carried into the mid-$66,000s. Bitcoin briefly steadied overnight near $67,000, then sold off again after 8 a.m. ET Saturday, reaching that $65,500 low in the 10 a.m. hour and taking out Friday’s trough.

A stronger dollar and higher yields still weigh on the bitcoin price

The Labor Department said Friday that the Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.3% in October, short of the 0.4% increase economists had expected. On an unadjusted basis, the index was up 6.5% from a year earlier, the largest 12-month rise since November 2022. The slightly cooler monthly figure lifted bitcoin above $70,000 for only minutes.

Bond traders were unconvinced. The 10-year Treasury yield climbed as high as 5.17% on Friday, a four-week high, and closed at 5.15%. The U.S. dollar index held at a 19-month high, its strongest level since April 2025. Boston Fed President Susan Collins said Friday that “soon, some additional tightening of Fed monetary policy may be appropriate,” and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said policymakers will, “in all likelihood, raise interest rates.” Higher rates raise the cost of holding an asset that pays no interest, and a stronger dollar has weighed on the bitcoin price for much of November. Traders fully priced a quarter-point hike at the Fed’s Dec. 8-9 meeting, CME FedWatch data show.