Bitcoin continued to rise for several days, breaking through $66,500 this morning. U.S. stocks also rose. Investor sentiment did not seem to be affected by the U.S. data that exceeded market expectations last week.

After Bitcoin reached $63,000 yesterday, it continued to rise rapidly. It quickly rose and broke through several important windows, and at nearly 7 o'clock this morning (15), it broke through $66,500, once again reaching the previous high at the end of September.

At the time of writing, it has fallen slightly and is now at $65,961, a 5.34% jump in the past 24 hours. Will it be able to successfully break through the previous high after the shock this time? Or will it first pull back? It remains to be seen.

As for Ethereum, ETH also broke through $2,600 at the same time. At the time of writing, it was reported at $2,623, a jump of 6.07% in the past 24 hours.

In the past 24 hours, the entire network has liquidated $240 million

Amid the wildly volatile market for Bitcoin, data from Coinglass showed that in the past 24 hours, the total amount of cryptocurrency liquidations exceeded US$240 million (US$208 million for short positions), and nearly 66,000 people were liquidated.

Dow Jones and S&P 500 hit new highs

As for U.S. stocks, although the inflation data released by the United States last week exceeded market expectations, investor confidence did not seem to be greatly affected, and the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices both closed at record highs again.

  • The S&P 500 index rose 44.82 points, or 0.77%, to close at 5859.85

  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 201.36 points, or 0.47%, to close at 43,065.22.

  • The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 159.75 points, or 0.87%, to close at 18,502.69.

  • The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 96.27 points, or 1.8%, to close at 5,432.21.