(Bloomberg) — Stocks are unpredictable, so people buy protection in case they crash. But the tactics Wall Street has devised to protect investors at times of crisis are just as hard to forecast,...
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Genesis reports losses of around $7 million after hedging against market volatility
Crypto trading and lending firm Genesis Trading reported losses of around $7 million “across all counterparties” that include Alameda Research after it hedged and sold collateral on Tuesda...
Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting in Search of Profits—And Hedging Their Bets
Bitcoin miners and hosting companies staying afloat in this market have had to venture outside the blockchain industry. At current prices and Bitcoin network difficulty, only Bitcoin miners with the n...
Increase in Bitcoin-Sterling Trading Volume Points to Hedging Demand for Crypto, or Does It?
According to data from CoinMarketCap, While writing this article, Bitcoin is trading at $19,314. The Bitcoin-British pound(BTC/GBP) pair is registered for Trading on prominent cryptocurren...
Surging Bitcoin-Sterling Trading Volume Points to Hedging Demand for Crypto, or Does It?
On Monday, which was the day when the pound crashed to a record low $1.035, trading volume in the pair listed on those two exchanges climbed to a record $881 million. That’s 12 times the $70 mil...
Merge-Focused Hedging Makes Ether Shorts Most Expensive in 16 Months
While the probability of the Merge failing is relatively low, ether’s price could drop after the upgrade for two reasons. First, ether has gained nearly 55% in the two months leading up to the M...
U.S. Shale Faces More Than $10 Billion In Hedging Losses
U.S. shale oil producers are in line to suffer more than $10 billion in derivative hedging losses this year if oil prices remain around $100 per barrel, Rystad Energy research shows. Many shale operat...
Galoy Launches BTC-Backed Synthetic USD, Hedging Volatility Surprises in Bitcoin
On Wednesday, Galoy, a California-based payment solutions platform that offers lightning as a retail payment system, announced the launch of Stablesats, a Bitcoin-backed synthetic U.S. dollar product ...
Traders Are Hedging Risk Italy Leaves Euro After Draghi Resigns
(Bloomberg) — The collapse of Italy’s government is awakening a dormant threat in European bond markets. Most Read from Bloomberg Credit-default swaps suggest investors are starting to worry abo...
BRICS In The New World Energy Order: Hedging In Oil Geopolitics
SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA- APRIL 27: Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a meeting of the … [+] Russian Geographical Society’s Board of Trustees on April 27, 2015 in St. Petersburg, ...
Smart Airlines Are Saving Billions Thanks To Oil Price Hedging
Commodity price hedging is a popular trading strategy frequently used by oil and gas producers as well as heavy consumers of energy commodities such as airlines to protect themselves against market fl...
Hedging Strategies for a Crypto Bear Market
Key Takeaways There are multiple ways to protect a portfolio during a bear market. The objectives are to limit losses and volatility. The crypto market has been in a downward trend since mid November ...
Futures spread explained — hedging against systematic risk | Blockchain Concept| OKX Academy
A futures spread is an arbitrage strategy in which a trader completes a unit trade with both a long and short position — which offset each other — in order to take advantage of price discrepancies. It...
Bonds Are Suddenly Getting Love From Investors Hedging Recession
(Bloomberg) — Investors plagued by fear and shunning stocks are rediscovering a time-honored antidote: U.S. government bonds. Most Read from Bloomberg That may seem surprising, given that the Tr...
Inflation Hedging Coin Has Announced an International Video Production Contest – Press release Bitcoin News
press release PRESS RELEASE. IHC token team just announced a contest of video content creation with a prize pool of 100 million IHC tokens among Youtubers. All Youtube content creators with above 5k s...
Huobi Global Launches High-Yielding PrimeEarn Event, Supports Risk Hedging Amid Volatile Market
Huobi Global, one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges, today announced the launch of its 5th Prime Earn event, which aims to help its users to hedge risk while also obtaining stable profit...
Glassnode reveals investors hedging against possible dip if Fed hikes interest rates
Glassnode, an on-chain data analysis platform, has revealed that cryptocurrency investors are taking measures to hedge against the potential risk of a market slump next month after the US Federal Rese...
Crypto investors hedging out risks ahead of March rate hike
On-chain data analysis from Glassnode shows that Bitcoin investors are hedging out risks in order to stay protected against Federal Reserve interest rate hikes in March. Glassnode’s The Week On-Chain ...
Genesis is exploring institutional hedging and liquidity products for NFTs
advertisement The institutional market for non-fungible tokens is heating up, with Genesis Global confirming that it wants to build out its own platform to address the needs of large traders in this f...
Gold Miner Says Investors Prefer Hedging Against Inflation With Gold, Not Crypto – Economics Bitcoin News
The CEO of a Canada-headquartered gold mining company, Mark Bristow, has insisted that gold currently has little downside risk. He also highlighted the precious nature of the metal and how it is a bet...
100% in crypto Mati Greenspan puts institutional adoption and crypto hedging into perspective
Mati Greenspan is frequently mentioned in top-tier financial media, as a prominent investment specialist with macroeconomic analysis, portfolio diversification, and crypto in his focus. The founder an...