U.S. crypto stocks trade lower premarket
27/11/2020 11:47
** Shares of cryptocurrency-related companies trade lower
premarket after bitcoin hit a nearly three-year high on Tuesday
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** Blockchain-focussed cryptocurrency miner Riot Blockchain
RIOT.O slumps 17.65% to $5.83 premarket; stock second largest
loser among Nasdaq-listed stocks
** Cryptocurrency mining co Marathon Patent Group MARA.O
down 18.94% to $4.15 - the biggest pct loser and the
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** Silvergate Capital Corp SI.N , a financial services
provider to digital currency companies, down 5.1% to $33.10
premarket; co seventh-largest pct loser on NYSE
** U.S.-listed shares of Chinese blockchain innovator Xunlei
Ltd XNET.O down 2.7% at $2.88
** Bitcoin BTC=BTSP falls 2.37% against the U.S. dollar to
$16,753.71; Bitcoin hit a three-year high of $19,160.85 on Nov.
24
** Ehthereum ETH= down 1.48% to $506.16
(Reporting by Sohini Podder)
((Sohini.Podder@thomsonreuters.com;))