Cryptocurrency Losses Jump to $61 Billion with the Impact of Interest Rate Hike Shock

  • International
  • 11 May 2023
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The red color continued to dominate cryptocurrency exchanges, with the largest currencies experiencing sharp losses as Bitcoin returned to the $27,000 level. In terms of trading, during recent trading, the combined market value of cryptocurrencies fell by 5 percent, losing about $ 61 billion, after its total market value fell from the level of $ 1200 billion in trading last Sunday, to about $ 1139 billion in trading on Wednesday.

The cryptocurrency market is still reeling from the shock of raising US and European interest rates, as the Federal Reserve decided a few days ago to raise interest rates by another 25 basis points to fight inflation, the tenth consecutive increase since March last year.

Source (Al-Arabiya.net Website, Edited)

 

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