S.Korea's cryptocurrency shrs rise; BlackRock forms working group for blockchain tech
17/07/2018 07:24
** South Korea's cryptocurrency shares gain after BlackRock
Inc BLK.N Chief Executive Larry Fink on Monday said the
world's largest asset manager has assembled a working group to
look at blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies such as
bitcoin urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N1UC0H2
** Venture capital companies Woori Technology Investment
041190.KQ and SBI Investment Korea 019550.KQ surge as much
as 29.1 pct and 12.6 pct, respectively
** South Korea's cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb's
stakeholders Vidente 121800.KQ and Omnitel 057680.KQ also
jump 7.5 pct and 5.5 pct each
** Bitcoin BTC=BTSP was trading down 0.7 pct at more than
$6,600 on the Bitstamp exchange
** Broader market .KS11 falls 0.1 pct as of 0611 GMT
((Reuters Messaging: joori.roh@thomsonreuters.com))