CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Cryptocurrencies suffered widespread losses today, as traders took profits and rebalanced their portfolios. |
Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Stocks took the day off on Monday, with all three major indices closing little changed. The Dow and S&P ticked up into the green, while the Nasdaq ticked down into the red. First up, the scoreboard:
1. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made a big bet on real estate. Store Capital, a real estate investment trust, said Monday that Berkshire Hathaway invested $377 million in the company. Shares of the company jumped after the announcement. 2. Senate Republicans released a significant change to their healthcare bill. The revised version of the bill includes a provision that's meant to replace the individual mandate by punishing people whose insurance has lapsed, locking them out of coverage for six months. The revision closes a loophole in the original bill that could have hurt the health insurance market. 3. Third Point, an $18 billion activist hedge fund founded by billionaire Dan Loeb, has taken a massive stake in Nestlé. While Third Point owns only about 1.4% of the Swiss company, it's one of the biggest activist plays ever – Third Point's 40 million shares are worth more than $3.5 billion. 4. The Senate healthcare bill process "could end in a raging political dumpster fire," according to Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group. "This could be the most consequential week of the Trump Presidency thus far on Capitol Hill," he said. With almost every other agenda item "bottle-necked behind healthcare," as Krueger put it, the pressure is on for McConnell to deliver. 5. Bitcoin fell. The cryptocurrency traded down 10.11% on Monday, at $2,275 a coin, a one-week low. The action seems to be a continuation of the selling that developed on Wednesday, when rival Ethereum flash-crashed from $296 to 10 cents before recovering its losses. 6. Ethereum was also under pressure, trading down 18.55% near $241. The selling comes despite a late Friday blog post from GDAX — an exchange for cryptocurrencies like ethereum and bitcoin — promising that victims of last Wednesday's flash-crash will be made whole. 7. The ruble climbed. The currency was up 1.0% at 58.7991 per dollar in the late afternoon. ADDITIONALLY: Apple is crushing the Swiss watch industry — and one brand is particularly vulnerable. The 9 GOP senators who will decide the fate of the Republican healthcare bill. SEE ALSO: What 25 major world leaders and dictators looked like when they were young Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: An economist explains the key issues that Trump needs to address to boost the economy |
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Third Point, a $18 billion activist hedge fund founded by billionaire Dan Loeb, has taken a massive stake in Nestlé. While Third Point owns only about 1.4% of the Swiss company – Third Point's 40 million shares are worth more than $3.5 billion – it's one of the biggest activist plays ever. Here's what you need to know. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway just made a bet on real estate investment trust Store Capital. And Store Capital's stock price is getting a huge boost from everyone's favorite Nebraskan investor. Elsewhere in deal news, hopes are fading that a bidder will battle Amazon for Whole Foods, and a Chinese logistics company backed by Alibaba filed for a US IPO. And in hedge fund news, Robert Soros is stepping down from his father's legendary fund to start his own venture. In markets news, a crucial stock market indicator just got its most bullish reading on record. There’s a surprising new champion of the stock market. And investors betting trillions on ethically-appealing stocks may not be getting all they expect. Through conversations with portfolio managers, JPMorgan has found that investors are piling into the same positions. And it's created a tenuous situation. Gold traders were greeted with a jolt Monday morning. And in cryptocurrency news, Ethereum is plunging despite flash-crash victims getting their money back, and bitcoin is dropping. An ex-Tesla exec revealed how the company is transforming itself into a data powerhouse. And Avis is soaring after partnering with Google's self-driving car company. Lastly, go inside the extravagant wedding of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and 36-year-old actress Louise Linton.
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Ethereum is under pressure on Monday, trading down 13.26%, or $40, near $263. The selling comes despite a blog post from GDAX saying that victims of last Wednesday's flash-crash will be made whole. Ethereum tumbled from $296 to $0.10 in a matter of minutes before recouping those losses. "We will establish a process to credit customer accounts which experienced a margin call or stop loss order executed on the GDAX ETH-USD order book as a direct result of the rapid price movement at 12.30pm PT on June 21, 2017," GDAX announced on Friday evening. "This process will allow affected customers to restore the value of their ETH-USD account to the equivalent value of their ETH-USD account at the moment prior to the rapid price movement." The announcement was a change from an earlier blog post from GDAX, which stated that customers would not receive a refund. Another possible catalyst for the selling could be a hoax circulated over the weekend that cofounder Vitalik Buterin had died. Vitalik responded by posting a tongue-in-cheek selfie on Twitter with a hash code from a recent Ethereum block — proof that he was still alive. Even with Monday's selling, Ethereum is still up 3,181% in 2017. The cryptocurrency's rapid rise has drawn the attention of cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee, who on Friday announced his company would begin mining for ethereum.
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST It's a rough start to the week for bitcoin. The cryptocurrency trades down 4.38% at $2,483 a coin, a one-week low. Monday's sell-off comes amid a lack of any real news, and seems to be a continuation of the selling that developed last Wednesday, the day rival Ethereum flash-crashed from $296 to $0.10 before recovering its losses. Bitcoin is down about 9.5% since Wednesday's opening print. The recent weakness in bitcoin comes following a run up of more than 200% to start the year. Bitcoin's 2017 gains have been propelled by heavy buying from China and Japan. Recent strength has come on the heels of China's three biggest exchanges resuming withdrawals for the first time since February and Japan naming bitcoin a legal payment method back in early April. Additionally, Russia's largest online retailer began accepting bitcoin even though has Russia said it wouldn't consider the use of the cryptocurrency until 2018. But, the big gains have created some skepticism as of late. Billionaire Mark Cuban called bitcoin a "bubble" as the cryptocurrency hit its then all time high on June 6. "I think it's in a bubble. I just don't know when or how much it corrects. When everyone is bragging about how easy they are making $=bubble," Cuban tweeted. About a week later, Goldman Sachs head of technical strategy Sheba Jafari wrote bitcoin was looking "heavy" and due for a drop to as low as $1,915 before seeing a rally. It put in a low of $2,076 before rallying to almost $2,800. There still remains one big unknown. Back in March, the US Securities and Exchange Commission rejected two bitcoin exchange-traded funds. It has since taken public comment on its decision regarding an ETF started by the Winklevoss twins, but it has not made an additional ruling. SEE ALSO: Ethereum's flash-crash victims are getting their money back Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: An economist explains the key issues that Trump needs to address to boost the economy |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST After weeks of growth, it seems ether's much-hyped 'Flippening' – overtaking bitcoin as the most valuable cryptocurrency – is on hold. |