Observations & Insight Bitcoin stirs volatility fears as it heads for $10,000 Hannah Murphy - Financial Times The price of bitcoin soared to record highs on Monday and approached the symbolic $10,000 threshold even as some traditional marketplaces warned they were...
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Bitcoin Hurdles; The 871(m) Tax Problem; Quarterly and Monthly Volumes
Observations & Insight OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up 20 Percent in October OCC OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in October was 381,467,272 contracts, a 20 percent increase from October...
Nothing can be certain but delta and taxes
As tax accounting firms spring to life and TurboTax ups its marketing, so too is the Options Clearing Corporation working on taxes. The OCC’s concern does not rest with income taxes, but rather section 871(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.The code, which is set to tax...
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Europe Is Heading Toward a New Financial Crisis; ETFs Could Rock the Bitcoin World
Europe Is Heading Toward a New Financial Crisis; ETFs Could Rock the Bitcoin World
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Stocks edge back to kick off earnings week as Powell says U.S. economy at ‘inflection point’; Money managers flirting with all-time record CBOT corn long
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