Coinbase stock drops toward a 5th straight loss as bitcoin extends selloff
- Date: 23-Apr-2021
- Source: CNBC
- Sector:Financial Markets
- Country:Middle East
Coinbase stock drops toward a 5th straight loss as bitcoin extends selloff
Shares of Coinbase Global Inc.
COIN,
-1.02%
dropped 3.4% in premarket trading Friday, putting them on course for a fifth straight decline, as a selloff in bitcoin
BTCUSD,
-5.72%
toward a 7-week low weighed on the recently public cryptocurrency exchange. The stock has dropped 14.2% over the past four sessions, and has tumbled 23.0% since its first trade of $381.00 on April 14. Meanwhile, bitcoin slumped 4.6% early Friday, and has dropped 19.8% this week and has lost 24.1% from the an all-time intraday high reached on April 14, according to FactSet data. The S&P 500
SPX,
+0.30%
has lost 1.2% this week, and futures
ES00,
+0.18%
are up 0.1% ahead of Friday's open.