Fed interest rate hike rattles the crypto market: Dig deeper with Market Talks

Cointelegraph

Published Sep 22, 2022 12:00PM ET

Updated Sep 22, 2022 01:40PM ET

In this week's episode of Market Talks, we welcome Yashu Gola, a Mumbai-based financial analyst and technology journalist at Cointelegraph with a strong focus on Bitcoin (BTC), smart contracts, exchange assets, nonfungible tokens, commodities and global stocks. Gola has been covering the cryptocurrency industry since 2014 and does not expect to stop anytime soon.

First things first, the United States Federal Reserve has just announced a 75-basis-point increase in interest rates, which resulted in the markets taking a tumble. Why did this happen, what difference does it make to you, and why should you be concerned? We asked Gola to break it down for us.

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