{"id":57560,"date":"2024-11-06T10:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T10:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/us-election-dollar-surges-bitcoin-hits-record-high-as-trump-declares-victory\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T10:04:31","slug":"us-election-dollar-surges-bitcoin-hits-record-high-as-trump-declares-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/us-election-dollar-surges-bitcoin-hits-record-high-as-trump-declares-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"US election: Dollar surges, Bitcoin hits record high as Trump declares victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The dollar on Wednesday set for its biggest one-day rise since March 2020 against major peers.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin also jumped to an all-time high as so-called \u201cTrump trades\u201d took off, with traders increasingly betting on a U.S. election victory for the former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Trump was projected to win the country\u2019s presidential election, becoming the 47th President.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had earlier won Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, key battleground states for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar\u2019s climb began after very early indications of Trump winning Georgia and gathered pace throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>CNN also reports that Asian markets are tracking gains on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 closed 2.6% higher, while Australia\u2019s S&amp;P ASX gained 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>US election: Dollar surges, Bitcoin hits record high as Trump declares victory<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dollar on Wednesday set for its biggest one-day rise since March 2020 against major peers. Bitcoin also jumped to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5025,4161,938,15,9003,11802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-business","category-dollar","category-news","category-trump","category-us-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}