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First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Stays Above $19K as US Stocks Futures Slip Ahead of Earnings Reports
The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 20, 2022.
Updated Nov 7, 2022, 6:34 p.m. Published Oct 20, 2022, 12:28 p.m.
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Bitcoin (BTC) was trading flat on Thursday, with little movement over the last 24 hours. The world’s largest cryptocurrency briefly dropped below $19,000 early Thursday but soon stabilized back just above at around $19,150.
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Ether (ETH) was down slightly on the day, at around $1,290. It is still up slightly on the week, however
Top gainers on the day were Elrond’s EGLD and Huobi’s HT token, both up 3%.
In traditional markets, European stocks fell while yields on U.K. government bonds rose. U.S. stock futures slipped. Tesla’s shares dropped 5.4% in premarket trading after the electric-car maker reported third-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ expectations.
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Biggest Gainers
Asset Ticker Returns DACS Sector Chain XCN +12.17% Currency Radicle RAD +7.2% Computing Biconomy BICO +7.07% Smart Contract Platform
Biggest Losers
Asset Ticker Returns DACS Sector Ribbon Finance RBN -5.38% DeFi MetisDAO METIS -2.88% Smart Contract Platform Rally RLY -2.75% Culture & Entertainment
Sector classifications are provided via the Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS), developed by CoinDesk Indices to provide a reliable, comprehensive and standardized classification system for digital assets. The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) is a broad-based index designed to measure the market capitalization weighted performance of the digital asset market subject to minimum trading and exchange eligibility requirements.
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- Stocks have become more volatile than bitcoin for the first time since July 2021.
- "This has only happened on four other occasions in bitcoin’s history, each time near a significant local bottom," Noelle Acheson, author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter, said in a note to subscribers.
- "Obviously, patterns don’t always repeat, but it is worth noting," Acheson added.
Lyllah Ledesma
Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds a master's degree from New York University in Business and Economics and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of East Anglia. Lyllah holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.
Omkar Godbole
Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.
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