Bitcoin Futures Go Live at the CME, and Congress Calls for a Disney Hearing
A week after contracts on the cryptocurrency began trading at the CBOE, the much larger derivatives exchange, the CME, launches its own version. Interest in Bitcoin and other digital assets has risen exponentially this year, with prices approaching $20,000 over the weekend.
Plus days after Disney announced its $52 billion acquisition of Fox, Democratic leaders in Congress are calling for a hearing, raising antitrust concerns. The legislators saying a deal would concentrate too much box office power in one company.
And a judge made public a letter from a former Uber employee which accuses former executives of espionage and bribery. Stitch Fix is getting ready for its first earnings report since going public. We've also got earnings on tap from BlackBerry and Micron.
The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions fuel flew Tuesday from London to New York in a step toward achieving what supporters called “jet zero."
A new study examined the link between mental health and internet use and didn't find that it was consistently linked to negative psychological outcomes.