Bitcoin is currently up $48 (11.65%) in trading against the dollar today. BTC has been up as much as $55.8 today and down as much as $10.86 today so there is the potential for good news in coming inter-day trading. A quick review of Bitcoin historical prices show that BTC has closed higher than this price 20 of the last 30 days. Bitcoin has been as high as $633.69 and as low as $342.97 over the prior 30 days.
Litecoin is also up against the dollar. Litecoin is currently trading at $11.46 per coin. This price is 10.7% higher than yesterday's close price. Interday trading has seen prices as high as $11.62 and as low as $9.88.
In other Crypto Currency news AuroraCoin is down 33.33% to $0.80, BitGem is up 28.57% to $1.80, CACHeCoin is down 50% to $0.17 and IXCoin is up 133.33% to $0.07.