Litecoin Falls 13% In Rout

Litecoin Falls 13% In Rout

Investing.com - Litecoin was trading at $164.700 by 15:25 (20:25 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Saturday, down 13.04% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since September 7.

The move downwards pushed Litecoin's market cap down to $11.370B, or 0.49% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Litecoin's market cap was $25.609B.

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Litecoin had traded in a range of $130.300 to $189.200 in the previous twenty-four hours.

Over the past seven days, Litecoin has seen a drop in value, as it lost 16.68%. The volume of Litecoin traded in the twenty-four hours to time of writing was $3.737B or 1.78% of the total volume of all cryptocurrencies. It has traded in a range of $130.3000 to $218.9000 in the past 7 days.

At its current price, Litecoin is still down 60.79% from its all-time high of $420.00 set on December 12, 2017.

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Bitcoin was last at $49,392.8 on the Investing.com Index, down 7.68% on the day.

Ethereum was trading at $4,112.56 on the Investing.com Index, a loss of 2.86%.

Bitcoin's market cap was last at $934.003B or 40.24% of the total cryptocurrency market cap, while Ethereum's market cap totaled $488.262B or 21.04% of the total cryptocurrency market value.

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