Trump Media stock sinks, gold soars, and Bitcoin bleeds

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Trump Media stock plunged more than 20% after the company revealed a $58 million loss

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media company founded by former President Donald Trump, plunged sharply on Monday after the company disclosed major losses in 2023.

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Bitcoin ETFs are soaring, but one is struggling. Blame high fees

Investors have poured money into spot Bitcoin ETFs, but the market has not yet reached its full potential due to the underperformance of one ETF.

That would be the world’s largest crypto asset manager Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust ETF (NYSE: GBTC), which has been experiencing consistent outflows of funds for the past few weeks.

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Gold prices hit a new record. Here’s why

A local buyer weighing gold that was brought in by small scale miners on March 22, 2017 in Paracale, Philippines. In the mining town of Paracale, about 350 kilometers south of Manila, a day's work of digging and sifting through hundreds of kilos of sand and clay, an artisanal miner can gather about a quarter of a gram of gold dust, enough to earn $5, enough for a family to go through the day's needs. For decades, local residents at Paracale town work in hazardous conditions scavenging under the earth and diving into tunnels filled with mud using only makeshift tools to mine for gold, often placing their health and lives at risk. Ban Toxics, a local NGO working at these sites claims that artisanal mining is a poverty driven industry and that small-scale miners typically work in harsh conditions with no proper training, protection, and pollution control methods. Local reports indicated the country produced about 18 tons of gold at a market value of over $700 million in 2014 while 80% of the gold comes from artisanal and small-scale mines which operate without a government license. The Philippines holds the largest copper-gold deposit in the world and is the fifth most mineral-rich country for gold, nickel, copper, and chromite, but massive environmental destruction prompted the new Department of Environment and Natural Resources secretary, Gina Lopez, to threaten many large-scale mining operations for closure. — Weighing gold

Gold is trading near yet another record high: In early Monday trading, the price was at $2,250 a troy ounce. An explanation for the latest excitement? Inflation. One common feature of gold rallies is the thought that inflation is high and may get higher. When that happens, money becomes worth less because it buys less. At a time like right now, when central banks are reluctant to raise interest rates that would make people feel better about keeping their holdings in cash, commodities like gold become an attractive alternative because they’ve become a recognized store of value over the centuries.

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Bitcoin is bleeding. Why it’s dropped below $65,000

Bitcoin experienced a sharp decline on Tuesday morning following nearly a month of upward movement, causing other cryptocurrencies to suffer sympathetic cold sweats. The stock market opened poorly, with the Dow dropping by 450 points, and the cryptocurrency market is following the same trend. The flagship cryptocurrency dropped 7% in the past 24 hours, trading at $64,000 at the time of writing. Just a week ago, the cryptocurrency was above $70,000.

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