{"id":990292,"date":"2026-02-06T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990292"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:24:00","slug":"bitcoin-plunges-up-to-8-and-south-koreas-kospi-sinks-nearly-4-in-the-latest-tech-led-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/bitcoin-plunges-up-to-8-and-south-koreas-kospi-sinks-nearly-4-in-the-latest-tech-led-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin plunges up to 8% and South Korea&#8217;s Kospi sinks nearly 4% in the latest tech-led sell-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World shares retreated Thursday in Asia on heavy selling of technology stocks, while the price of bitcoin fell as much as 8%.<\/p>\n<p>The latest round of jitters over high prices for tech shares sent South Korea&#8217;s Kospi down nearly 4%. Oil prices sank more than $1 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was trading near $71,000 early Thursday, down 7.3% after crashing to about $69,000 earlier in the day, according to CoinDesk. That&#8217;s its lowest level since November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World shares retreated Thursday in Asia on heavy selling of technology stocks, while the price of bitcoin fell as much as 8%. The latest round of jitters over high prices for tech shares sent South Korea&#8217;s Kospi down nearly 4%. Oil prices sank more than $1 a barrel. Bitcoin was trading near $71,000 early Thursday, down 7.3% after crashing to about $69,000 earlier in the day, according to CoinDesk. That&#8217;s its lowest level since November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}