Bitcoin Takes Late Dive Below $19K, Ether Falls as Merge Countdown Begins

●Bitcoin (BTC): $18,843 −4.6%

●Ether (ETH): $1,576 −0.7%

●S&P 500 daily close: 3,906.28 −0.5%

●Gold: $1,712 per troy ounce +NaN%

●Ten-year Treasury yield daily close: 3.34% +0.1

Bitcoin, ether and gold prices are taken at approximately 4pm New York time. Bitcoin is the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (XBX); Ether is the CoinDesk Ether Price Index (ETX); Gold is the COMEX spot price. Information about CoinDesk Indices can be found at coindesk.com/indices.