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Bitcoin's latest price movement comes after the new U. Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen , warned about cryptocurrencies being used "mainly for illicit financing. Bitcoin bulls say the main reason for bitcoin's upward momentum over recent months has been the rise of institutional demand for the cryptocurrency. Big-name investors like Paul Tudor Jones and Stanley Druckenmiller have come out as bitcoin believers, while some asset managers are starting to add it to their portfolios. Skybridge's clients are mainly high-net-worth individuals, he added.
The cryptocurrency's remarkable surge has also been fueled in part by a narrative that it offers a store of value akin to gold in times of unprecedented economic stimulus, which some investors fear will cause a spike in inflation. The seven-day average of Grayscale inflows peaked in mid-January and has been trending south ever since barring a rise Friday , according to data source Glassnode. While retail investors trade in the spot market, many institutional investors gain exposure to bitcoin through the regulated Grayscale Bitcoin Trust GBTC.
The day moving average of daily volume has been declining since early February. A low-volume price rise is often short-lived and prone to sudden pullbacks, similar to the one seen early today. At press time, the perpetual funding rate has normalized to 0. Japan's Nomura and Credit Suisse of Switzerland warned of major losses from lending to Archegos for equity derivatives trades, triggering a worldwide sell-off in banking stocks. Morgan Stanley shares fell 2. Bloomberg -- The family office of former Tiger Management trader Bill Hwang was behind the unprecedented selling of some U.
The companies involved ranged from Chinese technology giants to U. S, according to an email to clients seen by Bloomberg News. ViacomCBS and Discovery posted their biggest declines ever Friday, after the selling and analyst downgrades. The liquidation had triggered price swings for every stock involved in the high-volume transactions, rattling traders. Hwang was an institutional stock salesman at Hyundai Securities Co. Updates with reasons behind selling in second paragraph For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.
Bloomberg -- Cathie Wood has spent months defending Ark Investment Management from critics who say the money manager has too much cash tied up in too few stocks. In a filing late last week, Ark altered the prospectuses for its exchange-traded funds to remove clauses limiting its exposure and concentration risks. These are eye-catching changes for Ark, founded by Wood in Ark invests in companies involved with disruptive trends, which mean it has a limited pool of targets in which to deploy that money.
In addition to deleting the general limits, the March 26 filing removed caps on ownership of depositary receipts, rights, warrants, preferred securities and convertibles. Updates with ARKX fund information in final paragraphs, analyst comment For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg. When CSG opted to shift its regional headquarters this year from Dubai to Riyadh, it marked an early win for Saudi Arabia and proved a surprisingly easy move for the U. CSG is among several foreign companies that agreed earlier this year to set up regional offices in Saudi Arabia rather than overseeing operations remotely from Dubai, the buzzing commercial hub in neighbouring United Arab Emirates.
The price drop has liquidated over $ million worth of bitcoin long positions so far today, according to data source Coinalyze – that's roughly 30% of the total long liquidations of $ billion observed in the crypto market. Bitcoin's Price Volatility Expectations Slip to Lowest in 3 Months. "Falling implied volatility suggests that markets are expecting sideways price.
Trauber will oversee the unit's investment banking front, while Sen will be in charge of corporate banking, the memo said. Wall Street is looking over their backs following the portfolio blowup of whale Bill Hwang. The race to shield coal country from an energy transition that Biden contends will generate jobs and wealth in everything from solar-panel manufacturing to wind power generation highlights the political complexity of the shift to renewables. Even though he recognizes climate change is a serious issue and that his stance makes him an outlier in his party, he says he worries about the devastating impact of a shutdown to the community.
If it shuts, "it's a ghost town," he said. Another proposal would set aside half a million dollars for legal challenges against other states that pass laws restricting the use of coal. One of the goals is to protect mining jobs that underpin the local economy, said Eric Barlow, a Republican state representative who co-sponsored some of the legislation.
His district in the northeast part of the state is in the heart of coal country, where output has plummeted in the past decade as utilities started using more renewables and natural gas. The effort is supported by the governor and at least some of the legislation is likely to become law, said Travis Deti, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association. The company converted part of one of them to gas last year. Power providers in other states concur. West Virginia, the second-biggest coal producer, is considering a bill that would give state agencies additional oversight and approval authority over utilities that are seeking to close a power plant.
The result could be higher power prices, or even making the state less attractive for outside investors, according to Jeri Matheney, a spokeswoman for Appalachian Power.
The American Electric Power Co. North Dakota is considering a bill that would reduce taxes on coal power plants, while another would consider whether the state should offer insurance to the industry after premiums from third-party insurers climbed. Arkansas introduced legislation aimed at making it harder for utilities to close power plants. In addition to the proposals to protect the Colstrip plant in Montana, another bill would require the state to evaluate the economic impact on local communities when a utility sought to shutter a power plant, another move designed to make the process of shutting down a site harder.
While that one has been tabled in the Montana House of Representatives, its Republican sponsor Braxton Mitchell expects it to be picked up in the state senate soon.
It gets to be a pretty ugly picture pretty fast. For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.
Even on Wall Street, few ever noticed him -- until suddenly, everyone did. Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time -- a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive market bets that were dangerously leveraged and unwound in a blink.
GSX Techedu Inc. It evaporated in mere days. Hwang and the team determine the best path forward. That approach makes sense for small family offices, but if they swell to the size of a hedge fund whale they can still pose risks, this time to outsiders in the broader market. For a time after the SEC case, Goldman refused to do business with him on compliance grounds, but relented as rivals profited by meeting his needs. Swaps also enable investors to add a lot of leverage to a portfolio.
Banks may own shares for a variety of reasons that include hedging swap exposures from trades with their customers.
Even as his fortune swelled, the something kept a low profile. Hwang is a trustee of the Fuller Theology Seminary, and co-founder of the Grace and Mercy Foundation, whose mission is to serve the poor and oppressed.
After getting furloughed by American Airlines, and watching her side gig leading trips outside of the US evaporate overnight at the start of the pandemic, Brittany Floyd felt unsettled. Having lived across every aspect of the income scale—she grew up in a low-income household, where her mother worked as a custodian and her father as a construction worker—she had no intention of going back to a life of financial struggle.
The pandemic had Floyd thinking about wanting to be financially independent and not having all her money tied up in one sector of the economy. Should you purchase a car with bitcoin and then need a refund, the manufacturer has some special terms and conditions. The big issue for gold traders down the road is, how is the U.
Bloomberg -- He was a hot-shot disciple of the hedge-fund legend Julian Robertson -- one of the stars to strike out on his own from the vaunted Tiger empire. How and why marquee-name banks embraced Hwang after his first stumble -- an insider trading plea in -- and enabled him to run up so much leverage is an open question on Wall Street, though his frequent trading and use of borrowed money meant he was a profitable client. Much of the leverage was provided by the banks through swaps, according to people with direct knowledge of the deals. Swaps are also an easy way to add a lot of leverage to a portfolio.
The charity is dedicated to the areas of Christianity, art, education, justice and poverty.
After leaving Tiger Management as Robertson wound down the firm, Hwang, who is in his mids, spent a decade running his Tiger Asia Management -- backed by his former boss -- and building it into a multi-billion firm with top returns. In , he closed the hedge fund after he admitted on behalf of the firm in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, to trading on inside information.
He was at Hyundai Securities Co. No one was focusing on Korea back then and we hired him soon after. Top news and what to watch in the markets on Monday, March 29, But on Monday, when Abu Dhabi begins selling futures contracts for its oil and then shipping the barrels from Fujairah, it will mark an aggressive shift by the emirate. Investors globally are clamoring for commodities because of their high yields relative to other assets and to protect themselves against any rise in inflation.
Creating a new benchmark will hardly be easy. Oil traders dislike change, especially when they believe markets already do a good job matching supply and demand. It was forced to shelve the plan indefinitely. Murban will also face competition regionally. Platts publishes price assessments for Dubai oil and the Dubai Mercantile Exchange trades futures for Omani crude. Both act as benchmarks for Middle Eastern shipments to Asia. Abu Dhabi says the combination of high supply, easy access to oil-consuming markets from Fujairah and the absence of trading restrictions will attract plenty of buyers to its exchange.
The futures platform will be run by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange Inc. The Murban exchange and the capacity boost could raise tension within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to Hari of Vanda Insights. The Gulf states dominate the cartel and tend to prize unity. They also began unprecedented production cuts last year to bolster prices as the coronavirus pandemic spread. Teng Yue Partners founder Tao Li also said in a brief note over the weekend that he has ample liquidity and sees a lot of buying opportunities, according to a fund investor.
Banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That suggests that Li trades few, if any, U. Updates with health of portfolio in second paragraph. An earlier version of this story corrected the year in the sixth paragraph. Bloomberg -- A global semiconductor shortage has upended the supply of everyday devices from smartphones to gaming consoles to tech-dependent cars.
With companies warning the issue may last into the second half, the fallout threatens to weigh on share prices for months to come. Since news broke in November that Apple Inc. Truckmaker Volvo Group and electric-vehicle company Nio Inc. The lack of chips has been caused by booming demand for tech gear, in large part because of the pandemic, and winter weather in Texas and a fire in Japan have added to the problem.
It triggered a 6. In Japan, shares of Toyota Motor Corp.