The blue-chip CSI300 index was down 0.5% at 4,821.19, while the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.4% to 3,492.46 points.

Iloilo City, a city in the Philippines, is the first city in the Asia Pacific where 3 luxury residential properties were sold in exchange for cryptocurrencies in 2019. In particular, the houses were sold for Bitcoin and Litecoin.

The stock quoted a 52-week high price of Rs 1394.0 and a 52-week low of Rs 852.7.

Tim Cook said Apple has been looking at crypto, but might not offer users a way to pay with it anytime soon.

A total of 69,765 shares changed hands on the counter till 02:11PM (IST)

Crypto exchanges have benefited from the mainstreaming of digital assets, with businesses across the globe investing heavily into growing their crypto infrastructure.

One such asset is "Squid coin", which last month launched without the permission of Netflix, and within days rocketed in value before plummeting to a near-zero valuation.

“One can see minor corrections but we do not see a large fall in Nifty.“

“Our pecking order in terms of the consumer names would start with HUL. We also have Dabur as one of our top largecap picks along with Godrej Consumer. Within the midcap universe we prefer Marico.”

Net profit for the three months through September rose to 39.5 billion yuan ($6.18 billion), above an average Refinitiv estimate of 35 billion yuan drawn from 14 analysts.