{"id":20962,"date":"2025-04-07T16:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20962"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:17:52","slug":"why-is-xrp-down-today-trumps-trade-war-triggers-sell-off-as-price-hits-five-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20962","title":{"rendered":"Why Is XRP Down Today? Trump&#8217;s Trade War Triggers Sell-Off As Price Hits Five-Month Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>XRP (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) plunged to $1.65 on Monday, its lowest price since November of last year, as investors fled crypto markets amid escalating global trade tensions sparked by U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/equities\/25\/04\/44628003\/the-big-liberation-day-surprise\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s newly imposed tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/options\/25\/04\/44636496\/why-tsem-stock-bounce-back-liberation-day-panic\">so-called &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs<\/a>, issued April 2, introduced sweeping duties on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico\u2014including a 20% tax on Chinese goods and 25% on steel and aluminum. The policy has rattled global financial markets and triggered a sharp risk-off response from investors, sending major cryptocurrencies, including XRP, into a steep correction.<\/p>\n<p>XRP has lost nearly 25% of its value in the past month, dropping 12.3% on Monday alone after a 10.4% plunge Sunday. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44669954\/why-is-xrp-down-today-trumps-trade-war-triggers-sell-off-as-price-hits-five-month-low\" alt=\"Why\" is xrp down today trump trade war triggers sell-off as price hits five-month low>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) plunged to $1.65 on Monday, its lowest price since November of last year, as investors fled crypto markets amid escalating global trade tensions sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s newly imposed tariffs. The so-called &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs, issued April 2, introduced sweeping duties on imports from China, Canada, and Mexico\u2014including a 20% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-20962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}