Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based news reporter at CoinDesk, covering news about Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and updates on crypto exchanges. She is also the co-host of CoinDesk's Markets Daily show on Spotify and Youtube. Helene is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Política

At Davos, Crypto Is No Longer on the Outside

Cryptocurrencies have taken a prominent role at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, despite the mainstream finance world’s apparent contempt for the sector.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (right) and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire spoke on a panel about remittances at the World Economic Forum's media village. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finanças

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Back Below $30K as Target's Earnings Miss Shows Effects of Inflation

The latest moves in crypto markets in context for May 18, 2022.

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Finanças

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Retakes $30K as 'Institutional Adoption' Makes Crypto More Like Stocks

The latest moves in crypto markets in context for May 17, 2022.

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Mercados

Big-Money Investors Who Boosted Bitcoin’s Price Might Now Crash It

Everyone celebrated the arrival of institutional investors to the bitcoin market, as their rising adoption helped send prices soaring. Now, with correlations to traditional markets at an all-time high, fingers are pointing over the market swoon.

Bitcoin and stocks have become bedfellows - for better or worse. (Mraz Center for the Performing Arts, via Creative Commons)

Mercados

'$DAI Will Die' Tweet Twisted Back on Terra's Kwon as UST Loses $1 Peg

Terra's UST briefly fell below $6.5 billion in market cap on Wednesday morning, allowing DAI to be the fourth-biggest stablecoin on the market for a time.

Do Kwon, a cofounder of Terraform Labs

Mercados

Past-Peak Inflation Might Be Misleading as Price Pressures Continue to Mount

As inflation peaks, bitcoin traders should be wary of reading too much into data.

Consumer Price Index, % Change Over 12 Months, including forecasted number for April 2022 CPI (Source: CoinDesk Research, Department of Labor Statistics, FactSet)

Mercados

Bitcoin Recovers to $32K After Dipping Below $30K to 10-Month Low

The last time the largest cryptocurrency by market cap traded under $30,000 was in July 2021.

Bitcoin hit a 24-hour low of $29,763 before bouncing back above $30,000. (CoinDesk)

Mercados

US Jobs Report Shows Gain of 428,000, Adding to Price Pressures

Friday's Labor Department report showed that employment growth stayed robust last month, at a level that should continue to worry the Federal Reserve about a too-tight jobs market.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 23: A 'Now hiring' sign is displayed at a FedEx location on June 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Nearly 650,000 retail workers gave notice in April, the biggest one-month worker exodus in the retail industry in more than 20 years, amid a strengthening job market.  (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Mercados

Bitcoin Plunges Most in 2 Months Amid Stock Market Sell-off

Bitcoin dropped more than 7% on Thursday. The decline was in line with a broad fall in the prices of stocks and bonds.

The price of bitcoin (BTC) dropped 7% on Thursday to a two-month low. (Source: TradingView/CoinDesk)