Legendary investor George Soros joined a chorus of well-known investors calling bitcoin a bubble this week, making his remarks in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday. "Cryptocurrency is a misnomer and is a typical bubble, which is always based on some kind of misunderstanding," the financier and founder of the $26 billion Soros Fund Management said. "Bitcoin is not a currency because a currency ...
Greenlight Capital Re’s David Einhorn lamented a bum year in his shareholder letter for 2017 with an investing loss of 1.6% net of fees. He also announced the new lineup of stocks he selected during the fourth quarter: Twitter, Ensco and Time Warner. First, Einhorn surprised investors by taking a long position in Twitter. As he acknowledged in the letter, he has been betting that certain stocks in the tech space will fail. These stocks, ...
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Bitcoin prices have risen sharply this year, but what does this mean for investors? Joe Lee, founder of Magnr, offered a more optimistic stance on Bitcoin's recent price gains. "I don't think we are in a bubble," he said, stating that while he expects the digital currency to experience of roughly 10% within the next two weeks, any such pullbacks represent buying opportunities. "There is huge demand at the moment ...