Crypto Markets See Bullish Growth, Asian Stock Markets Rally Ahead of US-China Trade Talk

Monday, Feb. 18: Crypto markets are seeing a bullish surge of green, with all of the top twenty cryptocurrencies seeing growth of between 2 and 12 percent, as data from Coin360 shows.

Top cryptocurrency Bitcoin has seen a solid 2.9 percent in growth on the day and is trading around $3,742 to press time, according to CoinMarketCap data, bringing Bitcoin to a 2.38 percent gain on the week.

Ethereum has seen the strongest 24-hour growth among the top 50 coins by market cap, rising close to 11 percent on the day to trade at roughly $137.65 to press time.

The leading altcoin has seen consistent growth over its 7-day chart, which markedly accelerated this weekend, bringing its weekly gains to just over 13 percent.

Up around 2.6 percent over the past 24 hours, the asset is up a mild 1.7 percent on the week.

Up 6.5 percent on the day, the altcoin is also 4.5 percent on the week.

Among the top twenty coins, Maker, ranked 16th, is up the most, gaining close to 9 percent to trade at $555.85.

The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies is around $125.9 billion as of press time, up a strong 3.7 percent on the week.7-day chart of the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies from CoinMarketCap.

For mainland China, the Shanghai composite is up 2.68 percent, with the Shenzhen composite is up 3.7 percent.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index is meanwhile up 1.54 percent, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index up 1.8 percent.