Crypto Price Today Live: Bitcoin holds $19K; Dogecoin, XRP and Shiba Inu shed up to 4%

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Bitcoin held the $19,000 mark during the session. An expected 75 basis point interest rate increase at next month's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and continued US central bank hawkishness through the end of the year seems already entrenched in investors. Majority of the crypto tokens were trading higher on Monday, but the upside was capped. Avalanche gained about 2 per cent and Ethereum rose more than a per cent. XRP plunged about 4 per cent and memecoins dropped too. The global cryptocurrency market cap was trading flat at $919.83 billion, marginally higher in the last 24 hours. However, the total trading volume jumped more than 16 per cent to $76.2 billion.

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