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Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert discusses the company's launch of a Bitcoin investment trust. He speaks with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg) Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. That helps...
Good morning. Here's my take on some of the stories driving the debate in politics, finance and social issues across Asia today: Will Japanese debt crisis beat out Tokyo Olympics? As Japan touts the economic benefits of staging the 2020 Olympics, some well-known investors are adding u...
SecondMarket Inc. , where stock of private companies such as Facebook Inc. traded before they went public, started the first U.S. fund investing solely in the Bitcoin virtual currency. Shares of Bitcoin Investment Trust are being offered exclusively through SecondMarket, which also pr...
It's been difficult to peg the trends at this season's New York Fashion Week, probably because fashion this year is (thankfully) all over the map. With one exception: Nikes. The sneaks are on everyone from models to creative directors to PR people to random hangers-on. The two favored...
Singapore stocks tumbled by the most among developed markets last month as investors pulled cash from Southeast Asia on concern about the future of global stimulus. Singapore’s Straits Times Index, the benchmark gauge for the region’s biggest market, dropped 7.5 percent in the 10 days...
Singapore ’s jump in private home sales last month was only a temporary reprieve for developers as the government’s cooling measures take root and mortgage rates begin to rise. The city’s housing sales climbed 54 percent to 742 in August from July, when they fell to 482, the lowest in...
Bitcoin, the alternative sort-of currency whose most ardent fans congregate in that part of the Venn diagram where "tech" and "libertarian" overlap, has always had a political flip-side. Its appeal is rooted in distrust -- of dollars, governments, banks, the Federal Reserve and surely...
Tradehill Inc. , an exchange for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, is temporarily suspending trading, citing unspecified banking and regulatory reasons. “This decision has not been made lightly and we regret having to take such action,” the company said today on its website. “Howeve...
