Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Hits One-Week Low as Boost From Powell’s Signal Unravels
- Largest digital asset fell below closely watched $60,000 level
- Crypto is unwinding an earlier lift from bets on Fed rate cuts
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Bitcoin posted its biggest drop since the turmoil that gripped global markets in early August, part of a wider retreat in crypto prices that included a sharp fall in second-ranked token Ether.
The largest digital asset shed more than 6% at one point, the steepest slide since the Aug. 5 plunge, before retracing some of the weakness to change hands at $59760 as of 7 a.m. on Wednesday in New York. Ether at one point lost more than 7% before paring a part of the wobble to trade at about $2,522.