bitcoin After reaching a 52 week high of 5.18 last Thursday we have a day low of 2.69.
not what we want to see but there is a bit of a rebound. last trade 3.01.
Just about everything in the markets is down.
I have shares in a few cannabis companies that are also down.
Here is an article that I just read today.
BlackRock to add bitcoin as eligible investment to two funds
11 hours ago
(Reuters) - BlackRock Inc is adding bitcoin futures as an eligible investment to two funds, a company filing showed, in a move to bring the world of cryptocurrency to its clients.
The world's largest asset manager said it could use bitcoin derivatives for its funds BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities and BlackRock Global Allocation Fund Inc.
The funds will invest only in cash-settled bitcoin futures traded on commodity exchanges registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the. company said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink had said at the Council of Foreign Relations in December that bitcoin is seeing big giant moves every day and could possibly evolve into a global market. (https://bit.ly/2XXFHrB)
Earlier this month, Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, hit a record high of $40,000, rallying more than 900% from a low in March and having only just breached $20,000 in mid-December.
A BlackRock spokesperson declined to comment beyond the filings when contacted by Reuters.
(Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar and Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)