Bitcoin fell to $73,518 at Tuesday’s Wall Street open after US October inflation came in above expectations, then returned above $74,000. The low nearly matched Sunday’s and was its lowest level since Aug. 21; the source does not give an unambiguous calendar date for Tuesday.
October consumer prices rose 0.4% from the previous month, above the expected 0.3% but below September’s 0.6% rise. The report had no year-on-year figure because data was not collected during the 2025 US government shutdown. Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said he favored a 25-basis-point rate increase in December; market pricing put the chance of that outcome at 96.3%, but no increase had been approved.
