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Bitcoin suffered its biggest drop in three months on Tuesday, falling nearly 10% in the wake of a worse-than-expected August inflation report, as investors fear the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates for a third time this year, potentially sparking a so-called kripto kış.
Bitcoin shares fell nearly 10% on Tuesday, its biggest drop since June. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty … [+]
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Bitcoin continued a months-long fall Tuesday afternoon, dropping 9.35% to $20,304.73, following new Labor Department veri that showed an 8.3% rise in consumer prices over the past 12 months ending in August, slowing for the second straight month, but still higher than economists had expected.
Bitcoin had been steadily climbing after briefly düşürme below $20,000 on August 27, but is less than a third of what it was at its peak of $67,037 last November.
It’s the largest drop since Haziran, when bitcoin fell from $28,636 on June 11 to $20.556 on June 16—it continued its downward trend to a low of $19,327 on July 1, and economists warned that a looming recession could erase the progress cryptocurrencies had made during the Covid-19 pandemic, when shares skyrocketed.
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Although low interest rates and Covid-19-related government stimulus checks fueled bitcoin’s rise in 2020, two rounds of interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this summer made investing riskier. Last month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell uyardı soaring inflation might “take some time” to ease and require the Fed to act “forcefully.” In the week ending June 17, çıkışlar from bitcoin totaled roughly $423 million, after falling to an 18-month low, according to crypto firm CoinShares.
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Stocks yuvarlandım throughout the day Tuesday in the wake of the Labor Department’s consumer price index report, with the Dow Jones dropping 3.87% to $31,163.99 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling 3.76% to $61.70 as of Tuesday afternoon, erasing recent stock gains as the price of food, medical care and shelter increased, despite falling gas prices.
Daha fazla Okuma
Dow Sinks 900 Points After Inflation Report Shows Stubbornly High Prices (Forbes)
Bitcoin, Durgunluk Korkuları Ortasında 20,000 Doların Altına Düştü (Forbes)
Bitcoin slumps 7% after inflation report causes investors to flee risky assets (CNBC)
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/09/13/bitcoin-drops-nearly-10-after-inflation-report-its-biggest-drop-since-june/