Thursday, March 21 — Most of the top 20 coins are in the red, showing slight losses on the day, down from one to four percent.
Market visualization from
The leading () is at $4,027 at press time, down about one percent over the 24-hour period. has been sideways as of early hours, following a drop to as low as $4,007 in the middle of the day.
24-hour chart. Source:
The top () has seen a 1.87 percent downturn on the day and is at $137.21 at press time.
As reported earlier today, Vitalik Buterin that high ether prices are important both for network security and the wider ecosystem’s development. In response to the question as to whether protocol designers and project leaders should be focusing on the question of a ’s price, Buterin referred to the “earlier rhetoric” of the project, which had explicitly downplayed the importance of the asset’s value.
7-day chart. Source:
() has also lost about two percent over the past day and is at $0.312 at press time. The coin started the day at $0.318, dropping as low as $0.309 in the middle of the day.
7-day chart. Source:
On CoinMarketCap’s listings, Tezos () is the biggest gainer, up by 25.77 percent on the day and at $0.771 to press time.
Total market capitalization of all is around $139 billion at press time, down from its intra-day high of about $141.9 billion.
Total market capitalization 7-day chart. Source:
Earlier today, Cointelegraph that price correlations among major increased against the U.S. dollar (USD) but fell in terms, according to a new report from crypto exchange . The exchange found that behavior among assets is diverging depending on whether returns are denominated in USD or .
Today, MarketWatch that U.S. stocks ended higher following a surge in tech shares that helped to lift key equity benchmarks. The S&P 500 has gained 1.09 percent to trade at around , while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased by 0.84 percent and is at around at press time.
On the Asian market, mainland Chinese shares climbed on the day, as the Shanghai composite gained 0.35 percent and the Shenzhen component added 0.706 percent, according to . Shares of tech giant Samsung Electronics and chipmaker SK Hynix saw their stocks surge 4.09 percent and 7.66 percent, respectively.
Published at Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:06:53 +0000
