{"id":29731,"date":"2022-09-21T20:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=29731"},"modified":"2022-09-21T20:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:31:05","slug":"why-bitcoin-ethereum-and-litecoin-are-shooting-higher-bitcoin-btc-usd-ethereum-eth-usd-litecoin-ltc-usd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=29731","title":{"rendered":"Why Bitcoin, Ethereum And Litecoin Are Shooting Higher &#8211; Bitcoin (BTC\/USD), Ethereum (ETH\/USD), Litecoin (LTC\/USD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"core-block\"><strong class=\"core-block\">Bitcoin<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker\" data-ticker=\"BTC\/USD\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\">BTC\/USD<\/span>,\u00a0<strong class=\"core-block\">Ethereum<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker\" data-ticker=\"ETH\/USD\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\">ETH\/USD<\/span> and <strong class=\"core-block\">Litecoin<\/strong> <span class=\"ticker\" data-ticker=\"LTC\/USD\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\">LTC\/USD<\/span>\u00a0are trading higher by 3.82% to $19,538.30, and 3.06% to $1,363.08 and 4.91% to $54.91, respectively,\u00a0in sympathy with the U.S. markets as investors react to the Fed&#8217;s decision to hike rates by 75 bps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\"><strong class=\"core-block\">What Happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">The\u00a0Federal Reserve\u00a0raised its target fed funds rate by 0.75% on Wednesday to a new range of between 3% and 3.25%, its third 0.75% rate hike in four months. The Fed said it will continue with its previously announced plan to let Treasury securities and agency debt and agency <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/mortgage-lenders-no-tax-returns\/\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">mortgage<\/a>-backed securities roll off its balance sheet on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\">\u201cInflation remains elevated, reflecting supply and demand imbalances related to the pandemic, higher food and energy prices, and broader price pressures,\u201d the Fed said in a statement&#8230;<em class=\"core-block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/analyst-ratings\/analyst-color\/22\/09\/28953963\/federal-reserve-issues-third-straight-0-75-interest-rate-hike-what-it-means-for-the\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"core-block\"><em class=\"core-block\">See Also:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/analyst-ratings\/analyst-color\/22\/09\/28953963\/federal-reserve-issues-third-straight-0-75-interest-rate-hike-what-it-means-for-the\" class=\"core-block\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Reserve Issues Third Straight 0.75% Interest Rate Hike: What It Means For The Struggling Stock Market<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/22\/09\/28955324\/why-bitcoin-ethereum-and-litecoin-are-shooting-higher\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin BTC\/USD,\u00a0Ethereum ETH\/USD and Litecoin LTC\/USD\u00a0are trading higher by 3.82% to $19,538.30, and 3.06% to $1,363.08 and 4.91% to $54.91, respectively,\u00a0in sympathy with the U.S. markets as investors react to the Fed&#8217;s decision to hike rates by 75 bps. What Happened? The\u00a0Federal Reserve\u00a0raised its target fed funds rate by 0.75% on Wednesday to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[43],"tags":[50,6612,158,2693,298,199,8631,7552],"class_list":["post-29731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litecoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-btcusd","tag-ethereum","tag-ethusd","tag-higher","tag-litecoin","tag-ltcusd","tag-shooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/matrix-2953883.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29733,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29731\/revisions\/29733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}