- Bitcoin price showed fresh weakness as bulls revisited support below $90,000.
- The top coin dropped despite the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision.
- Oracle stock was down 11% in premarket trading amid AI trade jitters.
Bitcoin price failed to rally on Wednesday as the US Federal Reserve cut its interest rate, and showed weakness on Thursday as it fell to under $90,000.
The dip in BTC price reflected across cryptocurrencies, with major coins also tumbling to key levels amid fresh sell-off jitters.
While the top digital asset remains near the critical level as of writing on December 11, 2025, risk assets are broadly weak on signs of turbulence in technology stocks.
Oracle’s shares tumbled after the company’s miss in its profit and revenue forecast.
Why did the Bitcoin price fall today?
Bitcoin hovered around $90,379 at the time of writing, down 2.4% in the past 24 hours.
The bellwether crypto asset nonetheless traded off its intraday lows of $89,458. Losses came amid a 9% uptick in daily volume to over $70 billion.
While stocks saw gains after the Fed’s rate cut, a premarket dump for Oracle pulled other AI stocks down and signalled fresh losses likely to encourage Wall Street bears.
In premarket trading, CNBC highlighted that Oracle shares plummeted by more than 11%.
This cascaded across AI-related peers, with Nvidia down nearly 2% and Micron 1.4% at the time. Microsoft, cloud company Coreweave and AMD also traded negatively.
This outlook, even tougher on crypto, pushed BTC lower.
Ethereum, XRP and Solana all shed gains as the market continued to reel from the crash and sentiment flip that followed the October 10, 2025 bloodbath.
CryptoQuant analysts say short-term holders dominate the count, still hovering in the “Pain Zone”.
“Structurally, these deep loss pockets usually show up closer to the late stages of a correction than the early ones,” an analyst at CryptoQuant noted.
BTC Short-Term Holders are Still in a Pain Zone
“Structurally, these deep loss pockets usually show up closer to the late stages of a correction than the early ones.” – By @IT_Tech_PL pic.twitter.com/bw39CfxGh6
— CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) December 11, 2025
Standard Chartered cuts BTC forecast for 2025
A lack of momentum since dipping below $100,000 has analysts recalibrating their end-of-year forecasts.
Standard Chartered,for instance, said earlier this week that it was cutting its 2025 BTC price prediction from $200k to $100k.
Geoff Kendrick, the global head of digital assets research at the banking giant, pointed to the slowdown in buying by Bitcoin treasury companies as a factor.
According to the analyst, bulls may now have only one key price driver- the spot exchange-traded funds space.
