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You are an expert financial analyst. Your primary task is to predict the next 10 days of Bitcoin prices. Analyze the provided news and historical price data to make your forecast. Today's Key News: ['Tax reform has had a major impact on the current earnings season, as just about every company stands to see changes to its tax situation as a result of new rules on foreign earnings and lower corporate tax rates.Aflac(NYSE: AFL)is in an unusual situation, because even though most U.S. investors know the company as a provider of supplemental insurance products to workers throughout the country,Aflac gets most of its revenue from its Japanese business. That has dramatic implications for how new tax laws will affect the insurer in 2018 and beyond.\nComing into Wednesday\'s fourth-quarter financial report, Aflac investors believed that the company\'s top line would take a big hit, but earnings were expected to be solid. The insurer got a nice boost from tax reform, and even when you take out that one-time impact, solid bottom-line performance on an adjusted basis set the stage for a good start in 2018. Let\'s look more closely at Aflac and how it did to finish 2017.\nImage source: Aflac.\nAflac\'s fourth-quarter results were mixed, as most shareholders had expected. Revenue plunged 9% to $5.42 billion, but that was slightly less dramatic than the roughly 10% decline that most of those following the stock were looking to see. Net income more than tripled to $2.4 billion. After adjusting for special items, adjusted operating earnings of $1.63 per share were $0.08 better than the consensus among investors.\nTax reform was a huge part of the reason Aflac\'s bottom line rose so much. The company posted a $1.7 billion estimated benefit from tax reform, stemming in large part from expected lower tax rates on repatriated earnings from its Japanese unit. Aflac has been unusual in that it has typically brought back some capital from its overseas business even in the face of the higher tax rates that prevailed under previous law.\nThe weaker yen again played a role in hurting Aflac\'s revenue. The yen fell about 3% in the fourth quarter compared to the year-earlier period, with the dollar rising from 109.10 yen to 112.98 yen over that span. Aflac blamed the yen for $0.03 per share in operating earnings, which was a smaller impact than theinsurer has seen in previous periods.\nAflac\'s restructuring of its Japanese operations continued to weigh on performance as well. Local-currency premium income fell 3.3% in the quarter, with the insurer\'s anticipated pullback from first-sector savings products within Japan weighing on the company\'s ability to pick up new business in the more lucrative third-sector cancer, medical, and income support product category. New annualized premium sales were down 8% in local terms, and it took a rise in net investment income to offset some of the falling fundamental performance for the Japanese unit.\nIn the U.S., Aflac managed to post a 2% rise in premium income and total revenue. Pretax operating earnings climbed almost 10%, as better margin reflected cost controls. Total new annualized premium sales climbed almost 7% in the segment during the quarter.\nCEO Daniel Amos kept his comments relatively simple. "We are pleased with the company\'s overall performance for the year," Amos said, and he pointed to tax reform in giving Aflac "an opportunity to accelerate and increase our investments in initiatives that reflect our company values and objectives." The CEO is also optimistic about its future, noting that challenges in Japan early in the year should give way to better performance in the second half, while the U.S. market should keep producing solid growth.\nIn particular, Aflac intends to spend about $250 million on U.S. operations over the next three to five years. This should come in the form expanded employee benefits, training programs, and investment in technology and digital business initiatives. The insurer\'s guidance for 2018 was also favorable. Aflac expects earnings of between $7.45 and $7.75 per share, which compared favorably to the $7.50 per share consensus forecast among those following the stock.\nAflac also took the unusual move of announcing another big boost to its quarterly dividend. The first-quarter payout of $0.53 per share will be 16% higher than its newly raised dividend just last quarter. Further stock repurchases of between $1.1 billion and $1.4 billion in 2018 should also help to return capital to shareholders effectively.\nAflac investors didn\'t seem surprised by the news, and the stock was close to unchanged in after-hours trading following the announcement. Some investors were likely waiting for more clarity on sometroubling allegations that the insurer has had to facein the past week. Yet from a fundamental business standpoint, with benefits from tax reform now in the books, Aflac has the opportunity to make the most of its trans-Pacific reach and tap into both of its target markets as effectively as it can.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This\nDan Caplingerhas no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Aflac. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.', 'Tax reform has had a major impact on the current earnings season, as just about every company stands to see changes to its tax situation as a result of new rules on foreign earnings and lower corporate tax rates. Aflac (NYSE: AFL) is in an unusual situation, because even though most U.S. investors know the company as a provider of supplemental insurance products to workers throughout the country, Aflac gets most of its revenue from its Japanese business . That has dramatic implications for how new tax laws will affect the insurer in 2018 and beyond. Coming into Wednesday\'s fourth-quarter financial report, Aflac investors believed that the company\'s top line would take a big hit, but earnings were expected to be solid. The insurer got a nice boost from tax reform, and even when you take out that one-time impact, solid bottom-line performance on an adjusted basis set the stage for a good start in 2018. Let\'s look more closely at Aflac and how it did to finish 2017. Aflac spokesduck holding blue mobile phone. Image source: Aflac. Aflac gets a gift Aflac\'s fourth-quarter results were mixed, as most shareholders had expected. Revenue plunged 9% to $5.42 billion, but that was slightly less dramatic than the roughly 10% decline that most of those following the stock were looking to see. Net income more than tripled to $2.4 billion. After adjusting for special items, adjusted operating earnings of $1.63 per share were $0.08 better than the consensus among investors. Tax reform was a huge part of the reason Aflac\'s bottom line rose so much. The company posted a $1.7 billion estimated benefit from tax reform, stemming in large part from expected lower tax rates on repatriated earnings from its Japanese unit. Aflac has been unusual in that it has typically brought back some capital from its overseas business even in the face of the higher tax rates that prevailed under previous law. The weaker yen again played a role in hurting Aflac\'s revenue. The yen fell about 3% in the fourth quarter compared to the year-earlier period, with the dollar rising from 109.10 yen to 112.98 yen over that span. Aflac blamed the yen for $0.03 per share in operating earnings, which was a smaller impact than the insurer has seen in previous periods . Story continues Aflac\'s restructuring of its Japanese operations continued to weigh on performance as well. Local-currency premium income fell 3.3% in the quarter, with the insurer\'s anticipated pullback from first-sector savings products within Japan weighing on the company\'s ability to pick up new business in the more lucrative third-sector cancer, medical, and income support product category. New annualized premium sales were down 8% in local terms, and it took a rise in net investment income to offset some of the falling fundamental performance for the Japanese unit. In the U.S., Aflac managed to post a 2% rise in premium income and total revenue. Pretax operating earnings climbed almost 10%, as better margin reflected cost controls. Total new annualized premium sales climbed almost 7% in the segment during the quarter. Can Aflac keep quacking? CEO Daniel Amos kept his comments relatively simple. "We are pleased with the company\'s overall performance for the year," Amos said, and he pointed to tax reform in giving Aflac "an opportunity to accelerate and increase our investments in initiatives that reflect our company values and objectives." The CEO is also optimistic about its future, noting that challenges in Japan early in the year should give way to better performance in the second half, while the U.S. market should keep producing solid growth. In particular, Aflac intends to spend about $250 million on U.S. operations over the next three to five years. This should come in the form expanded employee benefits, training programs, and investment in technology and digital business initiatives. The insurer\'s guidance for 2018 was also favorable. Aflac expects earnings of between $7.45 and $7.75 per share, which compared favorably to the $7.50 per share consensus forecast among those following the stock. Aflac also took the unusual move of announcing another big boost to its quarterly dividend. The first-quarter payout of $0.53 per share will be 16% higher than its newly raised dividend just last quarter. Further stock repurchases of between $1.1 billion and $1.4 billion in 2018 should also help to return capital to shareholders effectively. Aflac investors didn\'t seem surprised by the news, and the stock was close to unchanged in after-hours trading following the announcement. Some investors were likely waiting for more clarity on some troubling allegations that the insurer has had to face in the past week. Yet from a fundamental business standpoint, with benefits from tax reform now in the books, Aflac has the opportunity to make the most of its trans-Pacific reach and tap into both of its target markets as effectively as it can. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This Dan Caplinger has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Aflac. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .', "TransCanada Corporation's(NYSE: TRP)stock rose around 8% in 2017, an advance that was relatively good when you compare it to North American midstream oil and natural gas bellwetherEnterprise Product Partners L.P.'s loss of around 2%. That said, business developments were the really memorable things last year. Here's a primer on the good and the bad news in 2017 that made the year so exciting for TransCanada Corporation and its shareholders.\nTransCanada Corporation is one of North America's largest midstream oil and natural gas companies, with pipelines assets crisscrossing Canada and spread throughout the United States. It even has a handful of natural gas pipelines in Mexico. Generally speaking, the $40 billion market cap company needs to build large projects to keep its businesses growing.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe future got a little less certain in 2017 when TransCanada announced it had abandoned plans to build the Energy East and Eastern Mainline pipeline projects in its home country of Canada. The company took a roughly $1 billion Canadian charge. The bigger issue, though, is that these projects were worth roughly $16 billion Canadian and would have transported around 1.1 million barrels of oil a day.As The Motley Fool's Matthew DiLallo recently noted, the long-term growth picture for TransCanada is a lot less certain at this point in time.\nLuckily, though, all of the news from 2017 wasn't this bad. For example, the 2016 purchase of Columbia Pipeline Group helped TransCanada achievesolid earnings and cash-flow growth in the first halfof 2017. Although the third-quarter numbers were a little soft, that was the result of one-time charges and asset sales (Canadian solar assets were jettisoned, for example) that will help fund the company's near-term investment plans. Full-year results should be good reading, overall, all things considered.\nTransCanada's results were solid across the board through the first nine months of 2017. Image source: TransCanada Corporation.\nOperationally speaking, the midstream giant had some worthwhile successes. TransCanada brought a number of investments online in 2017, including the Northern Courier pipeline, the Rayne XPress pipeline, and and the Gibraltar pipeline. It also got the large Leach XPress project prepared to be successfully placed into service on January 1, 2018, setting this year up to be another good one on the top and bottom lines.The company is projecting as much as 10% earnings and dividend growth this year, by the way.\nThat said, there was one more bit of good news: The company finally got approval from the U.S. government for the Keystone XL pipeline. There's still more work to be done before it gets built, but that was a major hurdle for TransCanada on a project that made the company headline news in the United States during the previous administration. In early 2018, TransCanada reported solid customer demand for the pipeline. Assuming things go smoothly from here, this project, which once appeared to be dead in the water, should help to soften the blow from the Energy East setback.\nTransCanada's project pipeline is still well stocked for the next few years. Image source: TransCanada Corporation.\nTransCanada had a good year on the project front in 2017. And, perhaps more importantly, it still has a sizable portfolio of projects to build over the next few years, as well. In fact, even as the company was reporting the cancellation of Energy East, it highlighted an impressive $24 billion Canadian investment pipeline that should support 8% to 10% earnings and dividend growth through 2020. This backlog, by the way, should give management plenty of time to find additional projects (and possibly acquisitions) to keep the company growing beyond that point.\nAlthough TransCanada's business results were solid in 2017, that's probably not what investors are going to remember about the year. The big news, which was a mix of good and bad things, was on the operations front, with the cancellation of Energy East and the U.S. government approval of Keystone XL being the most headline-worthy events. But even underneath those news grabbing stories there were some pretty positive things to remember, like a series of new pipelines either coming on line or getting very near it. At the end of the day, there was a lot of going on at TransCanada in 2017 to make it a memorable year for most investors.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This\nReuben Gregg Brewerhas no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Enterprise Products Partners. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.", "TransCanada Corporation 's (NYSE: TRP) stock rose around 8% in 2017, an advance that was relatively good when you compare it to North American midstream oil and natural gas bellwether Enterprise Product Partners L.P. 's loss of around 2%. That said, business developments were the really memorable things last year. Here's a primer on the good and the bad news in 2017 that made the year so exciting for TransCanada Corporation and its shareholders. The bad news TransCanada Corporation is one of North America's largest midstream oil and natural gas companies, with pipelines assets crisscrossing Canada and spread throughout the United States. It even has a handful of natural gas pipelines in Mexico. Generally speaking, the $40 billion market cap company needs to build large projects to keep its businesses growing. A man turning valves on a pipeline Image source: Getty Images. The future got a little less certain in 2017 when TransCanada announced it had abandoned plans to build the Energy East and Eastern Mainline pipeline projects in its home country of Canada. The company took a roughly $1 billion Canadian charge. The bigger issue, though, is that these projects were worth roughly $16 billion Canadian and would have transported around 1.1 million barrels of oil a day. As The Motley Fool's Matthew DiLallo recently noted , the long-term growth picture for TransCanada is a lot less certain at this point in time. The good news Luckily, though, all of the news from 2017 wasn't this bad. For example, the 2016 purchase of Columbia Pipeline Group helped TransCanada achieve solid earnings and cash-flow growth in the first half of 2017. Although the third-quarter numbers were a little soft, that was the result of one-time charges and asset sales (Canadian solar assets were jettisoned, for example) that will help fund the company's near-term investment plans. Full-year results should be good reading, overall, all things considered. A series of bar charts showing TransCanada's solid financial results through the first nine months of 2017 TransCanada's results were solid across the board through the first nine months of 2017. Image source: TransCanada Corporation. Story continues Operationally speaking, the midstream giant had some worthwhile successes. TransCanada brought a number of investments online in 2017, including the Northern Courier pipeline, the Rayne XPress pipeline, and and the Gibraltar pipeline. It also got the large Leach XPress project prepared to be successfully placed into service on January 1, 2018, setting this year up to be another good one on the top and bottom lines. The company is projecting as much as 10% earnings and dividend growth this year , by the way. That said, there was one more bit of good news: The company finally got approval from the U.S. government for the Keystone XL pipeline. There's still more work to be done before it gets built, but that was a major hurdle for TransCanada on a project that made the company headline news in the United States during the previous administration. In early 2018, TransCanada reported solid customer demand for the pipeline. Assuming things go smoothly from here, this project, which once appeared to be dead in the water, should help to soften the blow from the Energy East setback. A listing of TransCanada's project pipeline TransCanada's project pipeline is still well stocked for the next few years. Image source: TransCanada Corporation. TransCanada had a good year on the project front in 2017. And, perhaps more importantly, it still has a sizable portfolio of projects to build over the next few years, as well. In fact, even as the company was reporting the cancellation of Energy East, it highlighted an impressive $24 billion Canadian investment pipeline that should support 8% to 10% earnings and dividend growth through 2020. This backlog, by the way, should give management plenty of time to find additional projects (and possibly acquisitions) to keep the company growing beyond that point. A lot of moving parts Although TransCanada's business results were solid in 2017, that's probably not what investors are going to remember about the year. The big news, which was a mix of good and bad things, was on the operations front, with the cancellation of Energy East and the U.S. government approval of Keystone XL being the most headline-worthy events. But even underneath those news grabbing stories there were some pretty positive things to remember, like a series of new pipelines either coming on line or getting very near it. At the end of the day, there was a lot of going on at TransCanada in 2017 to make it a memorable year for most investors. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This Reuben Gregg Brewer has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Enterprise Products Partners. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .", 'Shares ofRemark Holdings Inc.(NASDAQ: MARK)climbed 10.4% on Wednesday, rebounding from a nearly 18% decline yesterday as the small-cap artificial-intelligence (AI) and digital-media specialist was pulled down with the broader market.\nAs fellow Fool Daniel Sparkswroteyesterday, Remark\'s drop on Tuesday came with no company-specific news. But major market indices didendure a steep pullbackamid concerns that the recent strength in equities as a whole may not be sustainable. Many smaller, yet-to-be-profitable growth stocks like Remark got hit particularly hard in the process.\nIMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES\nIt\'s also worth noting that shares of Remark Holdings have more than tripled since early November, when the company told investors that revenue in 2018 will climb more than 40% to at least $100 million. For that, Remark largely credited significant contract wins for its KanKan Data Intelligence platform, revenue from which is expected to more than quintuple in 2018 to over $30 million.\nBecause of "our accomplishments in AI, Remark is currently beginning to reap the rewards," added Remark Chairman and CEO Kai-Shing Tao. "We are well positioned to enter into the next phase of hyper-growth."\nAs it stands, barring a release of preliminary results, investors should receive their next update on Remark\'s progress to that end when it releases fourth-quarter 2017 results in late March. But given its astronomical rise over the past few months, don\'t be surprised if we see more volatility between now and then without substantial news to support it.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This\nSteve Symingtonhas no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.', 'What happened Shares of Remark Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: MARK) climbed 10.4% on Wednesday, rebounding from a nearly 18% decline yesterday as the small-cap artificial-intelligence (AI) and digital-media specialist was pulled down with the broader market. As fellow Fool Daniel Sparks wrote yesterday, Remark\'s drop on Tuesday came with no company-specific news. But major market indices did endure a steep pullback amid concerns that the recent strength in equities as a whole may not be sustainable. Many smaller, yet-to-be-profitable growth stocks like Remark got hit particularly hard in the process. Stock market charts and prices overlaying a world map IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES So what It\'s also worth noting that shares of Remark Holdings have more than tripled since early November, when the company told investors that revenue in 2018 will climb more than 40% to at least $100 million. For that, Remark largely credited significant contract wins for its KanKan Data Intelligence platform, revenue from which is expected to more than quintuple in 2018 to over $30 million. Because of "our accomplishments in AI, Remark is currently beginning to reap the rewards," added Remark Chairman and CEO Kai-Shing Tao. "We are well positioned to enter into the next phase of hyper-growth." Now what As it stands, barring a release of preliminary results, investors should receive their next update on Remark\'s progress to that end when it releases fourth-quarter 2017 results in late March. But given its astronomical rise over the past few months, don\'t be surprised if we see more volatility between now and then without substantial news to support it. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This Steve Symington has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .', "Image source: The Motley Fool.\nAT&T Inc.(NYSE: T)Q4 2017 Earnings Conference CallJan. 31, 2018,4:30 p.m. ET\n• Prepared Remarks\n• Questions and Answers\n• Call Participants\nOperator\nLadies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the fourth quarter 2017 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. If you should require assistance during the call, please press * then 0. Also, as a reminder, today's teleconference is being recorded.\nI would now like to turn the conference over to our host, Michael Viola, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.\nMichael J. Viola--Head of Investor Relations\nThank you, Tony, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our fourth quarter conference call. As Tony said, I'm Mike Viola, Head of Investor Relations for AT&T. Joining me on the call today is Randall Stephenson, AT&Ts Chairman and CEO; and John Stephens, AT&T's Chief Financial Officer. Randall is going to provide an overall business update and cover our 2018 business initiatives, and John's gonna cover results along with the 2018 outlook. And then we'll follow with our normal Q&A.\nAs always, our earnings materials are available on the Investor Relations page of the AT&T website. That includes our news release, our 8-K, investor briefing, and a variety of other associated schedules.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This\nBefore I begin, I need to call your attention our Safe Harbor statement. It says that some of our comments today may be forward-looking. As such, they're gonna be subject to risks, uncertainties, and results may differ materially. And additional information is available on the Investor Relations website.\nAnd so now, I'd like to turn the call over to AT&T's Chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson.\nRandall Stephenson--Chairman and Chief Executive Officer\nOkay, thanks, Mike. What we'll do is start on page four of the deck, and I just want to take a moment and reflect on 2017 because by any measure 2017 was a remarkable year. It was remarkable for our country, for our industry where we operate and for AT&T. And it's been a long time since we've seen so many-what I would call-major public policy achievements compressed into a single year like we saw last year, and we're calling these achievements because the combined impact from these is going to be growth. It's going to be growth in US investment, in jobs, and in wages.\nAnd all of this began early in 2017 as regulations across all industries were being rationalized. In our industry specifically, the FCC returned us to a light-touch regulation of the internet, and this was the approach that up until 2015 had allowed the internet to flourish and the US tech sector to lead the world in innovation. So, we, obviously, believe this was a step in the right direction, but this regulatory pendulum is gonna keep swinging back and forth unless Congress steps forward and writes new laws to govern all internet companies and to protect the consumer. We believe that we need clarity. We need a long-term predictability on the rules of the internet and on customer privacy. So, we're calling for an internet bill of rights, and you can expect us to take a leadership role on this as the discussion progresses.\nBut unquestionably the biggest development that came out of Washington last year was around tax reform. Our public policymakers pulled the greatest lever they had available to them to stimulate capital investment and job creation and wage growth. That lever was giving US companies a competitive tax system, one that levels the playing field with the rest of the world. We're very early in the process, but you've seen it. Company after company is already announcing increased investment, hiring, wage increases, and employee bonuses. And we were first out of the gate. We announced bonuses for more than 200,000 frontline employees and a voluntary medical plan contribution for a total of $1 billion. And we also increased our 2018 capital expenditures by another $1 billion.\nSo while public policy stole a lot of the spotlight, we did make a lot of progress on several strategic initiatives last year. The most important is FirstNet, winning that FirstNet bid, and this is gonna prove to be the foundation for taking wireless network performance to a completely new level. What we're doing is building a nationwide network with the latest technology. It's designed, and it's hardened for America's first responders. And then that will be our foundation for broad, 5G deployment. We're well under way with the build including new sites in unserved or underserved, rural parts of the country. We plan to deploy 40mhz of fallow spectrum that we've accumulated over the last few years along with the spectrum from FirstNet. And we'll also be deploying the millimeter wave spectrum from our fiber tower purchase, and this is gonna give us a quantum leap in both capacity and performance.\nThe move to Mexico, I'm really pleased with how the team is executing. They're doing so well. We added 3 million customers in 2017. We also made great progress leading the industry in terms of software-defined networking. 55% of our network is not virtualized, and as a result, you're seeing our networking and our IT cost structure falling significantly. We also made progress moving our base of our high-value customers into multiproduct bundles, saving them money, driving down churn, and earning more of their overall spend. And you can see the fruits of the strategy in our strong wireless performance this quarter, and DirecTV Now's terrific first year in the market. Our fiber build continued to go strong. We now reach more than 7 million customer locations and expect to double that in the next 18 months.\nSo that's a look at 2017, and what I want to do now is move forward to 2018 and talk about our priorities this year, and that's on slide five. And it's no surprise. Our top priority for 2018 is closing our deal to acquire Time Warner. We were obviously surprised when the government decided to try and block the merger because it is a classic vertical merger between two companies that don't even compete with one another. With 50 years of legal precedent, it's the type of business combination that the government has consistently approved with appropriate conditions. Now, while we remain open to finding some reasonable solutions to address the government's concern, we do expect this case will ultimately be litigated in court. The trial date is set to begin March 19, and we remain very confident that we'll complete this merger.\nWe're also gonna be laser focused in 2018 on building the world's premiere gigabit network. And, again, FirstNet, combined with our fiber and our 5G deployment is giving us a powerful platform to accelerate our move into a gigabit world. I got to tell you. I love our position here. We expect to be the first US company to launch mobile 5G service by the end of this year, and our fixed 5G trials are also going very well. We're learning a lot. We're gaining great insights into making this product a very strong, commercial offering.\nAnd then last week the FCC issued an order that cleared the way for us to move forward with our acquisition of FiberTower and the vast majority of its millimeter wave spectrum licenses. This is what's required for 5G. So, we get from FiberTower an average of nearly 360mhz of nationwide spectrum. And, again, millimeter wave, it's critical for our 5G strategy, and we'll be putting this spectrum to work later this year.\nIn video, we're gonna launch our next generation platform this spring. This platform will add cloud DVR capabilities. It'll give us a third stream to DirecTV Now, and it'll have a lot of further enhancements to the user interface. Now, I've been using this thing recently, and I gotta tell you. I think our customers are really gonna like this. The experience is very good. And so then before year-end, we plan to launch the next-gen product in a home-centric configuration with a very thin hardware client. And just think about it this way. It's a very small, inexpensive streaming device plugged into your TV, and then you connect it to any broadband service. It will be a voice-controlled, user interface with an integrated search feature. And it will allow you to search across any streaming video service that you subscribe to. So, it can be DirecTV Now, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or even YouTube. It also gives you a premium, live video experience in your home with the flexibility and the ease of use-what you would expect out of an OTT service.\nWe're also ramping up our advertising and analytics business. This is being led by Brain Lesser, who joined us last quarter. I think he's one of the best minds in ad-tech. We're really excited about this opportunity because advertisers have made it really clear to us that they're looking for a trusted option in premium video advertising-looking for an alternative to the current, digital ad duopoly that can bring advertisers scale, and deliver results that are transparent and brand safe.\nOnce Time Warner closes, we'll be well positioned to be that alternative. We think the entire industry-advertisers, publishers, and consumers-are more than ready for this alternative. And with Time Warner, we believe we'll have the right data, the right content, and the right talent to build an automated advertising platform that can transform premium video and TV advertising.\n2018 we're also gonna be focused further on Mexico. Our business there's gonna continue to scale. We continue to move toward profitability. We have great momentum in the market, nearly doubling our subscriber base in the last two-plus years, and our LTE build in Mexico is almost complete.\nAnd then finally, our industry-leading cost structure has proven to be a significant competitive advantage. We obsess over delivering the lowest cost per megabyte in the world, and we still have a lot of room to go. So, that's kind of a synopsis of what we'll be focused on in 2018. What I'm gonna do now is hand it off to John to give you a report on the fourth quarter and our outlook for 2018, so, John.\nJohn J. Stephens--Chief Financial Officer\nThanks, Randall, and thanks for joining us on the call. Let me begin with our financial summary, which is on slide seven. The positive impact of tax reform led to some significant changes in both our reported fourth quarter and annual results. This impacted our balance sheet and fourth-quarter earnings. It also led to us making some important decisions that impacted our fourth quarter cash flows. We'll walk through these impacts as we discuss the results.\nRevenues were essentially flat year over year as a strong quarter in wireless equipment and in our international operations mostly offset declines in legacy, wireless, and video services. Adjusted consolidated operating margins in the quarter were down year over year due to healthy increases in wireless sales and expenses from our entertainment group, offsetting that solid growth in our international operations. But for the full year, operating margins were up 40 basis points.\nIn the fourth quarter, our adjusted EPS was $0.78 including a $0.13 positive impact from tax reform. Essentially, our ability to fully expense capital spending in the fourth quarter generated most of this benefit. Remember. Tax reform expensing provisions were effected retroactively to September 27th of 2017. We also made a number of other decisions with tax reform in mind, including the $200 million in bonus payments to our frontline employees, an $800 million funding of our employee and retiree medical trusts, nearly $100 million funding of our AT&T charitable foundation and a number of other steps.\nAdjustments for the fourth quarter include these special items: a $20 billion gain from our preliminary estimate on net deferred tax liability reductions generated by the new tax law, asset write-offs in our copper plant as our consumer fiber footprint continues to expand and we continue to serve new customers with those fiber capabilities, and additional storm and national disaster impacts. And in the fourth quarter, those are primarily from Puerto Rico. Other adjustments include our annual mark-to-market pension plan remeasurement and merger and integration costs, amortization and some other adjustments.\nFree cash flow was up for the quarter and was $17.6 billion for the year even with the $1 billion of benefit payments made in connection with tax reform. Capex for the full year also came in on target at just under $22 billion.\nLet's now take a look at our operations starting with mobility, where the team turned in outstanding customer growth. Those details are on slide eight. AT&T's domestic mobility operations, as you know, are divided between the business solutions and customer wireless segments. For comparison purposes, the company is providing supplemental information for its total US wireless operations, and that's what I'll discuss today.\nFirst off, we added 329,000 postpaid phone customers in the quarter, a significant increase on both the year over year and sequential basis. Postpaid smartphone net additions were even more at 400,000. Altogether, we had more than 2.7 million new subscribers with gains in postpaid, prepaid, and connected devices. And looking at the full year, we added more than 2 million of our most valuable, [ran bid] smartphone subscribers to our base. One big reason for this success is reduced churn. Postpaid phone churn continues to run at record levels dropping to 0.89% in the quarter.\nRevenues were up the quarter thanks to strong smartphone sales. These sales also had an impact on margins. We had a year over year increase of 700,000 gross adds and upgrades in the quarter as our customers kept coming back and getting new phones. Our BOGO offer was also successful and helped drive this volume increase. This growth impacted margins but with record low postpaid phone churn, these customers will provide financial benefits years into the future. With these and many other efforts, we expect service revenues to improve throughout the coming year and turn positive for the year.\nWe take a disciplined approach in building our customer base. We'll continue to be keenly focused on cost management but also look for efficient opportunities to reinvest in our customers and continue growing.\nNow, let's take a look at our entertainment group results. Total video customers, IP broadband connections, and bundles all grew. DirecTV Now had a tremendous customer growth in its first year of operation. With 368,000 net adds in the fourth quarter gives us nearly 1.2 million customers in the service, and we believe the best is yet to come. As Randall mentioned, we're close to launching our second-generation platform. We're excited about the improved customer experience the platform will bring and the new revenue opportunities that will come along with it. These will include the cloud-based DVR, and additional video stream to the two we offer today, and a more robust video on demand experience.\nYou're also seeing us turn the corner with our broadband business. IP broadband gains continue to be robust even as the conversion of DSL customers to IP slows as the consumer DSL customer base dropped below 1 million. We added nearly 600,000 IP broadband customers during 2017. Broadband penetration rates and our fiber footprint where we have marketed our fiber service for more than 24 months are nearing 50%. Last year alone we doubled the number of IP broadband subscribers in our fiber footprint. A big part of our subscriber success can be attributed to the integrated offers that we have. We continue to increase the number of bundled customers. The number of households who take both video and wireless increased by 160,000 in the quarter or about 700,000 more wireless customers who bundle with video. That's significant because the churn rate of our DirecTV customers who have our wireless service is nearly half that of stand-alone satellite subscribers.\nAt the same time, we continue to work through the ongoing transition of the paid TV industry. This transition pressure revenues and margins. We will manage this transition as we have managed other transitions over the year, but expect the pressure to continue throughout 2018. Now let's look at business solutions results on slide nine.\nWireless drove growth in our business solutions segment, but we also a had sequential improvement in our wireline revenue trends. Wireless revenues were up 6% on the strength of smartphone sales, while service revenues were essentially flat. Wireline revenues were down 3.5% year over year, an improvement over previous quarters, and up nearly 1% sequentially. We now have 1.8 business customer locations connected with fiber. That means more sales opportunities for the team. We also expect increased business activity following the passage of tax reform. Margins felt the impact of increased smartphone sales, but wireline margins were up significantly to 37.8%, something like 270 basis point increase, as we continue to drive hard on cost management initiatives.\nA big part of these cost savings come from our move to a virtualized network. More than 55% of our network functions were virtualized by the end of '17, and there is still more opportunity as we drive toward our goal of 75% of these functions virtualized by 2020.\nOur international business also turned in another strong quarter. Those results are on the bottom of slide nine. We had growth across our operations. Revenues were up 16% as both DirecTV Latin America and Mexico showed strong revenue and subscriber gains. EBITDA also was up significantly thanks to strength in Latin America and improvement in Mexico. Subscriber growth continues to be strong in Mexico. The 1.3 million net adds in the quarter pushed our full-year growth to more than 3 million and our total subscriber base to more than 15 million. And our Latin America satellite operations added 139,000 customers thanks to the strength in their prepaid products. The business continues to be profitable and generate positive free cash flow.\nOur business unit's turned in a great fourth quarter, but we've also done an excellent job managing our balance sheet during the quarter. Those highlights are on slide ten. We take pride in the disciplined management of our balance sheet. We see it as a competitive advantage and value generator for our shareholders. It's the foundation our company is built on and gives us the strength and flexibility we need to invest and to grow. That foundation became even stronger in 2017 thanks to tax reform and thoughtful measure we undertook.\nFirst, we de-risked the existing debt portfolio by extending maturities primarily beyond 10 years as we prepare to close the Time Warner deal, and we did it cost effectively without significantly increasing our interest rates. Our weight average of maturity is now 14.5 years at a weighted average interest rate of 4.4%, and we've diversified our portfolio with about a quarter of the debt denominated in foreign currency. This gives us ample near-term liquidity to meet the demands of the business and provide solid, long-term returns to our shareholders.\nSecond, our terrific cash flow generation enabled us to invest in growth, improve leverage ratios and improve dividend coverage for the payout ratio of 68% in 2017, and with the passage of tax reformed, received a significant boost to our balance sheet reducing $20 billion of liabilities and increasing shareholder equity by a like amount. This reform significantly improves our net debt-to-equity ratios as well as free cash flow and dividend coverage in future years.\nWe also are in excellent shape with our pension plan. Our pension plan assets returned over 14% for the year, and we are nearly fully funded with no significant cash contributions required for at least five years. This is the case even with a historically low discount rate. If you apply the average five-year discount rate to our plan, it is essentially fully funded, and at the average 10-year rate, it's actually overfunded. Coming from this strong position, we plan to increase our investment allocation to fixed-income assets and lower our expected return on pension assets down to 7% from the current 7.75% assumption.\nAll these measures have a profound impact on our financial position, and I would expect the rating agencies will take notice and begin updating their models. It certainly has changed our outlook on capital budgeting, improving the returns of a whole range of products. As promised, we'll increase 2018 capital investments by $1 billion with tax reform. Even with that, we expect significant free cash flow growth in 2018 and going forward with our dividend payout ratio improving into the high 50% range this year. And we are committed to deleveraging after Time Warner closes with plans to return to historic levels by the end of 2020 if not before.\nOur management team has worked hard to build and maintain a strong balance sheet. We also know the job is never done, but 2018 brings tax reform, FirstNet, and a new accounting standard that will affect our financial results. Let's talk about 2018 on slide eleven.\nFirst, let's look at immediate impacts of changes in the tax law. Tax reform provides immediate benefits. It is allowing the additional $1 billion in incremental investments in 2018, much of that targeted for fiber deployment. The lower tax rate is also expected to increase operating cash flow by about $3 billion this year compared to pre-tax reform expectations. We're also confident that as other businesses increase investments, there will be a potential uplift in demand for our services. We can't predict exactly when, so we didn't assume a significant increase in GPD trends in our guidance. But we are optimistic that it'll come, and we'll be watching this closely.\nWe expect our 2018 effective tax rate will be in the 23% range. The full year's impact of tax reform is expected to be about $0.45 of EPS help. FirstNet will have an impact on our 2018 financials. We plan to move quickly with the buildout, and the timing of FirstNet reimbursements could impact our 2018 free cash flow. For example, we may have FirstNet related expenditures this year that aren't reimbursed until 2019. We planned FirstNet reimbursements against the capital and operating expenditures to which they relate. So, there'll be no revenue impact. We estimate that 80% of the reimbursements will offset capital expenditures with 20% offsetting operating expenses. We expect to expense sustainability payments as paid, net of any recoveries, for FirstNet-approved projects. We will see a $0.05 per share expense impact from our sustainability payments and other operating expenses from our buildout and FirstNet operations.\nAdditionally, we will see a $0.05 a share expense impact from increased interest expense in 2018. This comes from placing our AWS and WSC spectrum in service and no longer capitalizing the carrying costs related to owning inactive spectrum. And we'll see a $0.04 expense increase from the lower expected return on pension assets that we previously discussed.\nIn 2018, we will see a $0.06 a share benefit from reduced depreciation expense. That will be generated by the copper abandonment that we recorded in the fourth quarter of '17.\nAnd, finally, the new revenue recognition accounting standard will have a positive impact on our near-term financials. Several items will be impacted, but the biggest of these is deferral of commission expenses, which will increase profits in 2018; recharacterization of some service to equipment revenues for equipment that was provided with multi-year service contracts, this is expected to have an impact on service revenues but not a material impact on total revenues or on profitability; and a netting of universal service and other regulatory fees against the related expense-this is expected to significantly reduce both revenues and expense but have little impact on profit.\nWe still have work to do on revenue recognition, but our initial estimate is $0.10 to $0.15 per share of positive EPS impact in 2018. Our results will differ from others because of our extensive NEXT prog Last 60 Days of Bitcoin's Closing Prices: [] Use the additional daily data provided in the input below for crucial context.	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The explosive share-price gains stemmed from very strong performance for its game Grand Theft Auto V ( GTA V ), growth for digitally delivered sales, and increasing confidence in the future of the video game industry. TTWO Chart TTWO data by YCharts . So what The unexpected resilience of Grand Theft Auto V was the single biggest catalyst for Take-Two's explosive 2017 stock gains. Video game sales typically tend to be front-loaded, but GTA V accomplished an almost unprecedented feat of generating increasing sales in each year that has followed its initial 2013 release. The core game continued to post great unit sales last year, reaching more than 85 million units shipped and ranking as the seventh best-selling game at U.S. retail. Its online mode also once again generated increased year-over-year revenue. Police cars chasing another car in Grand Theft Auto V. Image source: Getty Images. Great sales for GTA V , strong performance for other titles like NBA 2K18 , and growth for digitally delivered full-game sales and in-game purchases helped the company deliver four quarterly earnings reports that topped the market's expectations. Now what After explosive stock gains in recent years, Take-Two will be under pressure to deliver great fiscal performance going forward, but it's also true that it has never been stronger. GTA V looks like it will continue to defy gravity, with Take-Two management indicating that the game is on track to keep recording year-over-year sales increases. The company is also ramping up its production pipeline and aims to release at least one blockbuster, nonsports release per year in addition to expanding its presence on the mobile platform. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This Keith Noonan owns shares of Take-Two Interactive. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Take-Two Interactive. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .... - Reddit Posts (Sample): [['u/Beastly4k', 'OmiseGO primed for 2018! A breakdown of what we know.', 662, '2018-02-01 00:29', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/', 'I have been very focused on OMG for a while now and jotting down the interesting bits in wordpad whenever I read an article, listened to a podcast, watched talks/meetups and found something worth noting. I managed to clean it up a bit and format it for reddit the best I could after getting all the new information from the Town Hall Q&A last night. As talking about each point would make this 30 times longer to go through I tried to simplify it but there is much more information on OMG than just this and if you haven\'t looked into it yet I think you should.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nOmise/Omisego origins and involvement in Plasma Development\n\n* Omise is a payment processing company started in 2013 and is now making the move to the blockchain\n* Omise\'s entire existing userbase will be supported by Omisego\n* Omise has over 50,000 merchants and over 420 million customers (some seen [here](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1PrEWZ_puEiTQ-us_Fmh-sg.png))\n Featured on cover of Forbes Thailand in October 2016 as ["Fintech Rockstars"](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1iFF3cxSut7WT3ZdZQtrSIA.jpeg)\n Omise [awarded](https://www.omise.co/omise-awarded-digital-startup-of-the-year) the Digital startup of the year award in 2017 by Thailands Prime Minister \n* Thailand ministry of finance [intergrated](https://twitter.com/JUN_Omise/status/898496682089783296) Omise Facepay technology \n* Blockchain lab created in 2015\n* Involved in Plasma development before its public announcement\n* Merchant volume of over [$30 Billion](https://np.reddit.com/r/OMGTraders/comments/71qcfy/analysis_of_the_merchants_of_omise/) from only what we know about\n* First to run Plasma and will provide scaleability to Ethereum\n* Wallet/SDK is open source and white label allowing any business or financial entity to use the network without a formal partnership (Anyone from a local bakery to Paypal and Visa could use the network simultaneously) \n* Staking rewards for validating transactions paid out in your choice of coin May be limited choices\n Dex that will provide crosschain transfers to any coins and provide cash in/out services\n* Currently working with many people on the development of plasma/omg including Joseph Poon, Vitalik, David Knott (Now an OMG Dev), Karl Floersch and more\n* Plasma to allow 1 million TPS from the start and theoretically scale to billions\n* Wallet SDK release in Q1\n* Wallet and staking release in Q2 with "conglomerate" integration within a month of release\n* DEX TBA (See town hall info below)\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAdvisors\n\n* Thomas Greco (Special Advisor) Advisor to the Interchain Foundation developing Cosmos Network, the Web3 Foundation developing Polkadot, and has previously served as an advisor to the Ethereum Foundation.\n\n* Vitalik Buterin (Proof-of-Stake Research: Scalability, Safety, Privacy and also Involved in development of Plasma) Founder of Ethereum\n\n* Joseph Poon (OmiseGO Principal Author and also Involved in development of Plasma) Lightning Network Co-Author\n\n* Karl Floersch (Proof-of-Stake Research: Cryptoeconomics, AI Ethics, Implementation and also Involved in development of Plasma) Casper (Ethereum) Researcher\n\n* Roger Ver (Decentralization Advisor, Human Rights Advocate) CEO of bitcoin.com, First Major Backer of Earliest Crypto Startups\n\n* Dr. Gavin Woods (Consensus Technology Research, Development and Utilization) Co-Founder of Ethereum, Founder of Parity & Polkadot\n\n* Jae Kwon (Proof-of-Stake Research - BFT Consensus, Speed, Interoperability) Creator of Tendermint, and Cosmos Network\n\n* Vlad Zamfir (Proof-of-Stake Research: Economic Security, Consensus Protocols, Correct-by-Construction Protocols) Casper (Ethereum) Research Lead\n\n* Martin Becze (Scalability research: eWASM, VM’s, microkernels) eWASM (Ethereum Web Assembly) creator\n\n* Julian Zawistowski (Decentralised Economics Enthusiast) Founder of Golem\n\n* Ayako Miyaguchi (Regulatory Relations, Financial Inclusion, Crypto Social Impact) Former MD Kraken Japan, Founder of Japan Blockchain Association, Board member of Japan Fintech Association\n\n* Pandia Jiang (Community Relations, Crypto-Business Advisor) Founder of LinkTime\n\n* Ash Han (Distributed Economy, A combination of Crypto, Finance, and Technology) CEO of Finector, Co-founder of Cosmos, Angel Backer and Blockchain Evangelist\n\n* Prof. David Lee Kuo Chuen (Financial Inclusion, Microfinance) Professor of Quantitative Finance, Singapore University of Social Sciences\n\n&nbsp;\n\nLots of ties to big players in the financial and business industry since Omise started years back but for Omisego specfically it would be including but not limited to investments and partnerships from\n\n* MUFG Mitsubishi United Financial Group (2.4 trillion in total assets and invested into Omisego under subsidary Krungsri aka Bank of Ayudhya)\n* [True Money](https://twitter.com/JUN_Omise/status/917556490189266945) (processes >4 billion usd across 6 countries)\n* SBMC (2nd largest bank in Japan)\n* [Credit Saison](https://twitter.com/JUN_Omise/status/922720544121692165) (Third largest credit card company in Japan)\n* Ascend Capital (owns AliPay)\n* McDonalds [Thailand](https://twitter.com/jun_omise/status/902844287557148673?lang=en)\n* SBI Holdings\n* SMDV\n* [Toppan Printing](https://twitter.com/jun_omise/status/922652439576174593?lang=en)\n* Golden Gate Ventures\n* East Ventures\n* 500 Startups\n* More unknown partnerships due to NDA\'s\n* Have met with [Greylock](https://www.greylock.com/greylock-companies/) (owners of Coinbase and more, more information currently undisclosed) No official word of partnership\n Jun has stated on [twitter](https://twitter.com/JUN_Omise/status/918355265124102144) they are ~"Building relations / connecting 15 different financial institutions across 4 regions and more than 1000+ dev contributors involved"\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMore recent information from the "Town Hall Q&A 0x1" hosted Jan 30th on YouTube\n\n* Sdk open beta end of February\n* Talking with banks, merchants, hardware partners under NDA (Also mentioned in crowdsale [document](https://i.imgur.com/HLhW2xW.png))\n* Vitalik, Joseph Poon, David Knott, Karl Floersch completed MVP (minimum viable plasma) during a short retreat late last year\n* DEX internal release milestone completed with blockchain running\n* DEX design complete starting to build on blockchain\n* Next milestone is internal testnet deploying nodes and connecting Plasma/omg nodes to ETH testnet\n* Plasma possible "much earlier" than first expected (most likely due to MVP breakthroughs)\n* Plasma final revision will be the same framework as MVP with additional features added as time goes on\n* SDK and Licensing open source under Apache 2.0 no fees to start building on the Omisego/plasma network\n* Working with strategic partners to issue FIAT backed tokens and cash in/out points(atms?). \n* Website redesign coming with an added community hub\n* Transactions nearly instantaneous on plasma, block time yet to be determined\n* Staking will be open and fair to everyone, they are taking measures against whales controlling the network\n* Omisego Advisor Ayako Miyaguchi will be the Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation effective Feb. 1st', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/', '7uebgk', [['u/Beastly4k', 22, '2018-02-01 00:49', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjo02n/', "If anyone has anything substantial that I've missed please let me know!", '7uebgk'], ['u/ductmercury', 20, '2018-02-01 00:51', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjo359/', 'I liked OmiseGO since I saw it rising from 0.50 to 1$. That time I regret I dropped only 20$ on Bitfinex, just for the giggles. Then I saw it rising to the level it is now, even though I have multiplied my "investment" I missed another "BTC" chance. I believe it will reach or maybe pass the price of NEO.', '7uebgk'], ['u/fiyamaguchi', 92, '2018-02-01 00:51', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjo3uj/', 'Excellent write up! OmiseGO has a LOT going for it right now. There are a lot of different products and projects:\n\n1. Whitelabel wallet SDK\n2. Decentralized exchange\n3. Cash in / cash out points\n4. Plasma development\n\nThe fact that it’s not one product can be confusing for people not familiar with the project, but it is exactly this point why OmiseGO will be successful in the future.\n\nI would encourage everyone to look into it further, if you are interested in the Ethereum community. OmiseGO are creating their own exciting products as well as working on a scaling solution for not only Ethereum, but they said it could help scale Bitcoin and Bitcoin like cryptos too.', '7uebgk'], ['u/acatspit', 31, '2018-02-01 00:52', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjo4ju/', "Well thought out post. This deserves to be on the front page. \n\nThe future of OmiseGo is very bright. We'll be seeing OMG climb the charts this year.", '7uebgk'], ['u/HunteronX', 23, '2018-02-01 00:54', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjo7vo/', 'Superb post!\nThis should be shown to any newcomers to OMG.', '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 18, '2018-02-01 00:56', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjod2x/', 'I think it was ready to take off when it blew up to ~~$28~~$26 but the entire market went down immediately after and here we are. ', '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 17, '2018-02-01 01:01', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjom1s/', '> but they said it could help scale Bitcoin and Bitcoin like cryptos too.\n\nHeard the cross chain dex part but I missed that part. Good catch', '7uebgk'], ['u/plasmoske', 21, '2018-02-01 01:23', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjps95/', "Crowdsale documents mention they're working with a global messaging company, telecoms, and banks. But all under NDA.", '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 15, '2018-02-01 01:28', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjq1qk/', 'Got that on the 2nd point down under the town hall section. Screenshotted the paragraph from the crowdsale doc', '7uebgk'], ['u/noveler7', 19, '2018-02-01 01:34', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjqcok/', "Agreed. It's such a bargain right now, will probably be one of the biggest gainers from here to the summer.", '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 16, '2018-02-01 01:36', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjqgqr/', 'Then a year or two from that point that summer will be labeled as a bargain day lol', '7uebgk'], ['u/imfitzylol', 23, '2018-02-01 01:37', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjqgw2/', 'Great Write Up.', '7uebgk'], ['u/slevemcdiachel', 87, '2018-02-01 01:39', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjql6t/', 'Omg is so good that it hurts. ', '7uebgk'], ['u/Mellowde', 14, '2018-02-01 02:37', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjtqbd/', "It's still very cheap.", '7uebgk'], ['u/Truffle_Shuffle_85', 14, '2018-02-01 02:46', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtju6p4/', 'Curious, are you guys able to store your OMG on the ledger?', '7uebgk'], ['u/pixelelation', 54, '2018-02-01 02:51', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjug51/', "Has all the ingredients doesn't it? Solid proven and trusted base platform, very strong development and advisory team, advancing existing proven tech instead of starting new, announced legitimate partnerships, excellent communication to the public, clear paths and goals. No BS or hype, just honest info. Refreshing really. OMG is arguably the most 'business like' model around I can see. Hard to believe they won't be one of the few major players when it all washes out. Other 'coins' should look at OMG as a 'how it's done' on quite a few levels.\n\nWhile it's no guarantee of future success, certainly more confident in this than most others I've researched. \n\nAppreciate the clear and evidence based communications. Keep it up.", '7uebgk'], ['u/tortoise888', 16, '2018-02-01 02:52', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjuis8/', 'Yes.', '7uebgk'], ['u/tortoise888', 17, '2018-02-01 02:55', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjuof3/', 'It will remain an ERC-20 token but will move to a Plasma sidechain that uses ethereum as the root chain.', '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 14, '2018-02-01 03:07', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjvbyr/', 'Few reasons it could even blow by 20 with ease. ~102 million coins in circulation and more than likely over 50% will be locked up once staking is available. Omise having 50,000 merchants and more undisclosed partners using omg will pump even more billions of volume into it. Then everyone that will end up using the OMG network for processing their payments. Omise has yet to transfer their merchant/customer base to OMG and that alone could put us well past 20 billion', '7uebgk'], ['u/mapsdkhsd', 13, '2018-02-01 03:22', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjw4v2/', 'Very well written and researched write up, Omisego is definitely poised for a steady rise in 2018', '7uebgk'], ['u/ballizlife2323', 36, '2018-02-01 03:37', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjwx7y/', 'Its the coin I move all my profits into whenever i "cash out" from other investments. I really dont care if it drops to $1 a coin, im holding and investing more and more.\n\nIve never seen a better project more poised to succeed.', '7uebgk'], ['u/brxite', 12, '2018-02-01 03:50', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjxn23/', 'plus that fact that staking your OMG tokens (with the new chain) will reward you with a percentage of the transactions that flow through the OMG network', '7uebgk'], ['u/satoshicuz', 17, '2018-02-01 03:54', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjxupt/', 'Oh man what a time to be alive, this coin is going to bring such great partnerships and collaborations into the Cryptocurrency community. Just imagine what would happen when/if McDonalds worldwide starts using it, and not only McThai. Oh and the Electrify Asia airdrop just tops it off!', '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 15, '2018-02-01 04:09', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjyolo/', 'Faster, offers liquidity, currency conversion, transparent/open source, connecting the world, they will probably stake a portion of their held tokens themselves to strengthen the network and make some profit on fees, and can attract enough business with the white label sdk to expand the company far beyond what it even is now pushing profits higher than them just taking all profits on their old system. On top of all that they actually genuinely care about changing the industry.', '7uebgk'], ['u/RogueAdventurer16', 12, '2018-02-01 04:15', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtjz06c/', 'Shhh, this post will draw the dreaded moonboys', '7uebgk'], ['u/pm_me_ur_cryptoz', 11, '2018-02-01 04:47', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtk0nkj/', ' they are staking 30% of the supply themselves, that is their revenue. If the companies way of making money is the same as mine, then what is good for the company is good for me. ', '7uebgk'], ['u/GreenEyeFitBoy', 14, '2018-02-01 04:55', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtk12ck/', 'OMG to $1,000? ', '7uebgk'], ['u/Beastly4k', 12, '2018-02-01 06:15', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtk4nlp/', 'O look it\'s that EOS "next better ethereum" fanboy that constantly posts in every popular omg thread giving us that concrete news from @Eosfan. Good luck!', '7uebgk'], ['u/aSadStateOfAffairs', 11, '2018-02-01 06:34', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtk5fn0/', "Ya I just glanced through his posts. He's definitely a EOS fan trying to diss other projects. Pretty lame. ", '7uebgk'], ['u/retrospectr3', 24, '2018-02-01 06:52', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtk639v/', 'OMG is criminally underrated right now. \n\nExcellent write up!', '7uebgk'], ['u/fiyamaguchi', 13, '2018-02-01 11:54', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7uebgk/omisego_primed_for_2018_a_breakdown_of_what_we/dtkea7l/', 'OmiseGO will give staking rewards from Q2 of this year. It’s a utility token.', '7uebgk']]], ['u/OfferMeThat', "Everyone buy now. You've seen the charts, you've seen the rises and falls. This is your chance to buy while the price is low and make actual gains on your investment.", 17, '2018-02-01 01:09', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7uel43/everyone_buy_now_youve_seen_the_charts_youve_seen/', "Anyone still interested in bitcoin has beat the weak investors who got scared and ran. When people buy the dips, the price rises. Weak investors see the price rising and buy in hopes to catch the uptrend, causing the price to rise more. Buying is how you stimulate growth and generate interest. The world is still eyeing bitcoin. If we make moves now, those still hoping it'll go up will jump like wolves on a dying animal. Be bold. Fortune favors the bold, others will follow. EDIT: All you no sayers not buying right now are gonna be banging yourself in the balls in a year when its bounced back up again because you didnt buy at this low.", 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7uel43/everyone_buy_now_youve_seen_the_charts_youve_seen/', '7uel43', [['u/boxhit', 11, '2018-02-01 01:13', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7uel43/everyone_buy_now_youve_seen_the_charts_youve_seen/dtjp8iw/', "All these financial advisors who bought at 19k coming in here like BUY BUY BUY or SELL SELL SELL. Can't we just talk about news and applications and shit? ", '7uel43']]], ['u/byron111', 'OMG GREAT synopsis by /u/Beastly4k', 219, '2018-02-01 01:24', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/omise_go/comments/7ueoqk/omg_great_synopsis_by_ubeastly4k/', 'I have been very focused on OMG for a while now and jotting down the interesting bits in wordpad whenever I read an article, listened to a podcast, watched talks/meetups and found something worth noting. I managed to clean it up a bit and format it for reddit the best I could after getting all the new information from the Town Hall Q&A last night. As talking about each point would make this 30 times longer to go through I tried to simplify it but there is much more information to OMG than just this and if you haven\'t looked into it yet I think you should.\n\n \n\nOmise/Omisego origins and involvement in Plasma Development\nOmise is a payment processing company started in 2013 and is now making the move to the blockchain\n\nOmise\'s entire existing userbase will be supported by Omisego\n\nOmise has over 50,000 merchants and over 420 million customers (some seen here)\n\nFeatured on cover of Forbes Thailand in October 2016 as "Fintech Rockstars"\nOmise awarded the Digital startup of the year award in 2017 by Thailands Prime Minister\n\nThailand ministry of finance intergrated\n\nOmise Facepay technology\nBlockchain lab created in 2015\n\nInvolved in Plasma development before its public announcement\n\nMerchant volume of over $30 Billion from only what we know about\n\nFirst to run Plasma and will provide scaleability to Ethereum\n\nWallet/SDK is open source and white label allowing any business or financial entity to use the network without a formal partnership (Anyone from a local bakery to Paypal and Visa could use the network simultaneously)\n\nStaking rewards for validating transactions paid out in your choice of coin May be limited choices\n\nDex that will provide crosschain transfers to any coins and provide cash in/out services\n \nCurrently working with many people on the development of plasma/omg including Joseph Poon, Vitalik, David Knott (Now an OMG Dev), Karl Floersch and more\n \nPlasma to allow 1 million TPS from the start and theoretically scale to billions\n \nWallet release in Q1 with "conglomerate" integration within a month of release\n \nStaking available in Q2\n \nDEX TBA (See town hall info below)\n\n \n\nAdvisors\n\n \nThomas Greco* (Special Advisor) Advisor to the Interchain Foundation developing Cosmos Network, the Web3 Foundation developing Polkadot, and has previously served as an advisor to the Ethereum Foundation.\n\n \nVitalik Buterin (Proof-of-Stake Research: Scalability, Safety, Privacy and also Involved in development of Plasma) Founder of Ethereum\n\n \nJoseph Poon (OmiseGO Principal Author and also Involved in development of Plasma) Lightning Network Co-Author\n\n \nKarl Floersch (Proof-of-Stake Research: Cryptoeconomics, AI Ethics, Implementation and also Involved in development of Plasma) Casper (Ethereum) Researcher\n\n \nRoger Ver (Decentralization Advisor, Human Rights Advocate) CEO of bitcoin.com, First Major Backer of Earliest Crypto Startups\n\n \nDr. Gavin Woods (Consensus Technology Research, Development and Utilization) Co-Founder of Ethereum, Founder of Parity & Polkadot\n\n \nJae Kwon (Proof-of-Stake Research - BFT Consensus, Speed, Interoperability) Creator of Tendermint, and Cosmos Network\n\n \nVlad Zamfir (Proof-of-Stake Research: Economic Security, Consensus Protocols, Correct-by-Construction Protocols) Casper (Ethereum) Research Lead\n\n \nMartin Becze (Scalability research: eWASM, VM’s, microkernels) eWASM (Ethereum Web Assembly) creator\n\n \nJulian Zawistowski (Decentralised Economics Enthusiast) Founder of Golem\n\n \nAyako Miyaguchi (Regulatory Relations, Financial Inclusion, Crypto Social Impact) Former MD Kraken Japan, Founder of Japan Blockchain Association, Board member of Japan Fintech Association- Just appointed to the EF as new Executive Director\n\n \nPandia Jiang (Community Relations, Crypto-Business Advisor) Founder of LinkTime\n\n \nAsh Han (Distributed Economy, A combination of Crypto, Finance, and Technology) CEO of Finector, Co-founder of Cosmos, Angel Backer and Blockchain Evangelist\n\n \nProf. David Lee Kuo Chuen (Financial Inclusion, Microfinance) Professor of Quantitative Finance, Singapore University of Social Sciences\n\n \n\nLots of ties to big players in the financial and business industry since Omise started years back but for Omisego specfically it would be including but not limited to investments and partnerships from\n\n \nMUFG Mitsubishi United Financial Group (2.4 trillion in total assets and invested into Omisego under subsidary Krungsri aka Bank of Ayudhya)\n \nTrue Money\n\n(processes >4 billion usd across 6 countries)\n\nSBMC (2nd largest bank in Japan)\n\nCredit Saison\n(Third largest credit card company in Japan)\n\nAscend Capital (owns AliPay)\n\nMcDonalds Thailand\n\nSBI Holdings\n\nSMDV\nToppan Printing\nGolden Gate Ventures\nEast Ventures\n500 Startups\n\nMore unknown partnerships due to NDA\'s\n\nHave met with Greylock (owners of Coinbase and more, more information currently undisclosed) No official word of partnership\nJun has stated on twitter\n\n \nthey are ~"Building relations / connecting 15 different financial institutions across 4 regions and more than 1000+ dev contributors involved"\n\n \n\nMore recent information from the "Town Hall Q&A 0x1" hosted Jan 30th on YouTube\n\n \nSdk open beta end of February\n \nTalking with banks, merchants, hardware partners under NDA (Also mentioned in crowdsale document)\n\nVitalik, Joseph Poon, David Knott, Karl Floersch* completed MVP (minimum viable plasma) during a short retreat late last year\n\nDEX internal release milestone completed with blockchain running\n\nDEX design complete starting to build on blockchain\n\nNext milestone is internal testnet deploying nodes and connecting \n\nPlasma/omg nodes to ETH testnet\n\nPlasma possible "much earlier" than first expected (most likely due to MVP breakthroughs)\n\nPlasma final revision will be the same framework as MVP with additional features added as time goes on\n\nSDK and Licensing open source under Apache 2.0 no fees to start building on the Omisego/plasma network\n\nWorking with strategic partners to issue FIAT backed tokens and cash in/out points(atms?).\n\nWebsite redesign coming with an added community hub\n\nTransactions nearly instantaneous on plasma, block time yet to be determined\n\nStaking will be open and fair to everyone, they are taking measures against whales controlling the network\n\nOmisego Advisor Ayako Miyaguchi will be the Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation effective Feb. 1st"\n\nspecial thanks to /u/Beastly4k, it\'s his post not mine but such and excellent summary/synopsis to date!', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/omise_go/comments/7ueoqk/omg_great_synopsis_by_ubeastly4k/', '7ueoqk', [['u/fiyamaguchi', 32, '2018-02-01 02:28', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/omise_go/comments/7ueoqk/omg_great_synopsis_by_ubeastly4k/dtjt7uf/', 'This great post is also on r/cryptocurrency so be sure to check it out and upvote it so a wider audience can become aware!', '7ueoqk'], ['u/sharkhodler', 12, '2018-02-01 03:37', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/omise_go/comments/7ueoqk/omg_great_synopsis_by_ubeastly4k/dtjwy5j/', '/u/Beastly4k - clearly you care greatly about OmiseGO. I hope for your sake (and the rest of us) this project rewards you in return!', '7ueoqk']]], ['u/touchmybutt123', 'Retail transaction numbers - Does anyone have the % of crypto transactions that are retail and how many are intra-community?', 11, '2018-02-01 01:47', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7ueu8i/retail_transaction_numbers_does_anyone_have_the/', "Amway won their FTC complaint and were found to not be a pyramid scheme, but instead a legit Multi-level marketing company based mainly on three things.\n\n> The Commission held that, although Amway had made false and misleading earnings claims when recruiting new distributors,(21) the company's sales plan was not an illegal pyramid scheme. ... Amway had three different policies to encourage distributors to actually sell the company's soaps, cleaners, and household products to real end users. \n\n> First, Amway required distributors to buy back any unused and marketable products from their recruits upon request. Second, Amway required each distributor to sell at wholesale or retail at least 70 percent of its purchased inventory each month -- a policy known as the 70% rule. Finally, Amway required each sponsoring distributor to make at least one retail sale to each of 10 different customers each month, known as the 10 customer rule.(22)\n\n[FTC Source](https://www.ftc.gov/public-statements/1998/05/pyramid-schemes)\n\nSo that got me to thinking if crypto would pass any kind of business Turing test or whatever you want to call it. And I wonder what % of buttcoin or any crypto transactions are retail, good and services, commerce related transactions and how many are incestuous. cash to crypto to crypto to cash to crypto. \n\nIs that information available? I've tried looking with no luck. Id be interested to see bitcoin retail % of transactions, bitcoin retail % of $ volume, crypto in general retail % of transactions and crypto retail % of $ volume.\n\nIm really bored with all the business problem solving and financial inefficiencies vaguery. Is there any numbers? The stories are real dumb.", 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7ueu8i/retail_transaction_numbers_does_anyone_have_the/', '7ueu8i', [['u/jstolfi', 11, '2018-02-01 03:21', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7ueu8i/retail_transaction_numbers_does_anyone_have_the/dtjw36c/', "> Is that information available?\n\nNo. \n\nThe only meaningful number that we have about the bitcoin economy is how much money the miners are raking in per day from the cyptocurrency ~~suckers~~ investors. (Right now, that is 18 million USD/day for BTC miners, 2.7 million USD/day for BCH miners.)\n\nAll other numbers that we can get are basically meaningless, or cannot be interpreted without information that is not available. \n\nFor example, we can see that the network processes 250'000 BTC tx/day, with total output value of ~2'500'000 BTC/day; but we have no idea of how many of those transactions are really payments (bitcoins changing hands in return for goods or services). \n\nWe have indirect evidence that much of it is not payments. For one thing, about 90% of that total volume is obvious return change (as when you take a 10 BTC lump from your wallet, send 0.1 BTC elsewhere, and return 9.9 BTC to your wallet). Excluding those return-change outputs leaves [only ~250'000 BTC/day](https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume?timespan=180days) of possible payments. But much of that still could be mixing, gambling, deposits and withdrawals at exchanges, wallet housekeeping, etc. Or even just spam, created by someone to give the illusion of substantial use. \n\nOne peculiar fact is that the [daily total output amount in BTC](https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume?timespan=all) has been surprisingly constant since 2012, even though the price increased ~200x (~20'000%) since then. (Drag with the mouse to select a smaller range, excluding the bogus peak neat 2011.)\n\nSometime in 2015, BitPay released a report detailing their operations in 2014. From memory, they had processed 150 million USD in the whole year. But much of it was related to bitcoin mining, and purchase of gift cards, gold, or other currencies/store of value -- that is, people leaving the Bitcoin ship. Only 50 million USD or less were payments for goods and services, which is ~140'000 USD per day, or 14 BTC/day at current prices. For comparison, the average supermarket in the US sells ~18 million USD per year.\n\nHowever they did not release such breakdown for the following years; and we do not know how much the other payment processors (Coinbase, Circle, Xapo, etc,) processed, nor how much commerce was done directly in bitcoin, without their services. \n\nAnyway, the discrepancy between those 14 BTC/day processed by BitPay in 2014 and the effective tx output volume of 250'000 BTC/day gives an idea of our ignorance about the bitcoin economy.", '7ueu8i']]], ['u/MineETH', 'BitGrail Planned Verification Scam', 32, '2018-02-01 02:38', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7uf5vt/bitgrail_planned_verification_scam/', "In /r/bitgrailexchange, the owner Bomber has been muting accounts and threads that ask why he only verifies users with little Nano. No user over 1k Nano has been verified so far. I've been unverified for 2 months now while others who submit their verification application with little Nano have been verified in a day. It's not a random or first come first serve verification process - he's deliberately only verifying users with low amounts. \n\nI personally don't mind that I lose a few thousand nano from this hostage situation, but I hope to see him in jail. He's intentionally screwing over the Nano community, feigning ignorance, and muting any questions asked about this topic on his subreddit. Just another heads up.\n\nedit: Non-EU members cannot be verified now and are forced to sell their XRB for BTC if they want to transfer money out of the exchange.", 'https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7uf5vt/bitgrail_planned_verification_scam/', '7uf5vt', [['u/Bitcoinfriend', 10, '2018-02-01 02:55', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7uf5vt/bitgrail_planned_verification_scam/dtjuof4/', "I support your anger, he's acting like a dick throughout this ordeal. ", '7uf5vt'], ['u/Ghostserpent', 32, '2018-02-01 03:17', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7uf5vt/bitgrail_planned_verification_scam/dtjvv9e/', 'You dont mind if you lose a few thousand nano? Lol thats a ton of money. I lost 2 nano and im really sad about it', '7uf5vt'], ['u/ZumbiC', 10, '2018-02-01 06:40', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7uf5vt/bitgrail_planned_verification_scam/dtk5nck/', 'Rich ones', '7uf5vt']]], ['u/mike_lets_talk', 'CMV: Cryptocurrencies are just another tech bubble, running on hype and not real value.', 414, '2018-02-01 02:43', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/', "Over the past two years or so, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum have increased in value dramatically, some in the order of 10,000%. It seems to me very similar to the internet Dot Com bubble in the early 2000's, with speculation and hype driving an unsustainable price bubble. If this price increase is not caused by hype, but actually a raw valuation metric, what changed in the past two years to cause this increase? With many coins having a market capitalization in the hundred of millions, or even billions, a possible burst of the bubble could have serious consequences for investors. \n\n_____\n\n> This is a footnote from the CMV moderators. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please* *[read through our rules](http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules). If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which,* *[downvotes don't change views](http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/guidelines#wiki_upvoting.2Fdownvoting)*! Any questions or concerns? Feel free to *[message us](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/changemyview). Happy CMVing!", 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/', '7uf70f', [['u/cupcakesarethedevil', 73, '2018-02-01 02:57', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtjuta2/', 'What do you mean "real value" all markets are based on speculation of how a company or commodity will do in the future.', '7uf70f'], ['u/mike_lets_talk', 28, '2018-02-01 03:05', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtjv7m8/', 'Yes, but they are also valued by future dividend payouts, as well as their assets. ', '7uf70f'], ['u/battlefrisk', 107, '2018-02-01 03:50', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtjxn0m/', "Crypto isn't going anywhere. While alot of the hype is nonesense, the fundamentals of crypto make it a viable alternative to classical currency for some people and some uses. \n\nIt's worth noting that cryptocurrencies aren't 'really' the technology being used. Blockchain is considered the new banging technology. Bitcoin is just the first real world application of blockchain (to my knowledge).\n\nIt's also worth noting that the big name in blockchain is increasingly etherium instead of bitcoin. Etherium allows general purpose logging of information, beyond just currency transactions. Essentially you can make a deal with anyone around the world about anything (including financial transactions) and it will be publicly verifiable very quickly. This is big for holding people accountable in complex systems (supply chain management, for instance).", '7uf70f'], ['u/SaintBio', 31, '2018-02-01 04:05', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtjyguh/', "The real value of cryptocurrency is the blockchain that underlies it. The blockchain is the distributed ledger used by cryptocurrencies to verify transactions. If the blockchain is widely adopted then you have a tangible source of value that is behind the cryptocurrency, and you can expect it to cease being a bubble. There are very good reasons to believe that blockchain tech will be widely adopted because it is probably the most important and useful invention in the last decade when it comes to ledger verification, distribution networks, finance, banking, supply chain management, etc. These are the basic institutions of the market, and blockchain is going to be their infrastructure backbone in the future. IBM estimated last year that 65% of all banks will be adopting blockchain tech within 3 years. Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, and Bank of America have all said that they are working on blockchain. \n\nIronically, the one thing that will probably make cryptocurrency stable would be for Bitcoin to collapse. At the moment it is dominating the market too much, forcing every other currency to follow it. Moreover, everyone who works in blockchain wants to work on Bitcoin related enterprises. So, more conventional institutions that want to enter the sector (and bring stability to it) can't because they can't find people to work for them. If Bitcoin collapsed, it would fix these problems and allow for genuine stability. So, my argument is that Bitcoin is a bubble but cryptocurrency and the blockchain themselves are not.", '7uf70f'], ['u/fox-mcleod', 101, '2018-02-01 05:38', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk325q/', "It's strange to me that you seem to be claiming that the dot com bubble had no real value. There was certainly a bubble. But then values fell to correct levels. That level wasn't 0. Amazon, Google, and ~~apple~~ Priceline are all quite valuable. And you'd be lucky to have bought them in 1999 even at inflated prices. \n\nIts certainly possible smart currencies like etherium are overvalued but just like the dot com companies it is quite unlikely that the true value is zero. Also, it's also quite possible they are not yet at their true value level and have more growth to go. \n\nEtherium and nano do things like eliminate the need for accounting and contract enforcement in convertible debt investment. That's super valuable. And the fact thay companies are launching using these currencies to account for their stock means that the stock is harder to come by. That value is real and if it continues, it would keep the price rising. ", '7uf70f'], ['u/Martin_Samuelson', 18, '2018-02-01 05:44', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk3bth/', 'For the same reason Apple doesn’t get sued every time a teen’s naked selfie gets uploaded to iCloud.', '7uf70f'], ['u/Goosebaby', 20, '2018-02-01 06:19', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk4u9c/', 'In your entire response, replace "crypto" with "the internet." Then think about late 1999/early 2000. \n\nEven though those may have been correct statements about the internet, we were still in a massive internet bubble then.* \n\nLots of people lost fortunes when the bubble popped. Just because a trend or industry is an obvious game changer, it doesn\'t mean current valuations are justified, or that you know the best way to invest in it.', '7uf70f'], ['u/gamingbeatsworking', 13, '2018-02-01 06:21', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk4xh7/', "> Crypto isn't going anywhere\n\nSomething doesn't need to dissappear for it to have been a bubble, it just drops massively in price because it's actual useful value to people was wildly inflated due to speculators looking for a greater fool.\n\nWe still have real estate, but there was definitely a bubble. We still have tulip bulbs.\n\nI think crypto currency is here to stay but also that many cryptos are massively overpriced. ", '7uf70f'], ['u/nomnommish', 12, '2018-02-01 07:59', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk8bue/', 'How do you then explain the extremely high price of gold, silver, gems, expensive paintings etc?\n\nThere is no inherent value to these things, nor do they generate dividends or future income. If gold prices are a bubble, then that bubble has lasted a few thousand years now.', '7uf70f'], ['u/MechanicalEngineEar', 40, '2018-02-01 08:11', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk8o3z/', "the US Dollar doesn't have dividend payouts. Bitcoins are a currency, not a stock. I will admit it is currently a sketchy unstable currency, but still a currency.\n\nNow there are other cryptocurrencies that are trying to basically have all sorts of other functions as well which tie them more to companies and some tangible assets, but none of those are really big enough to be newsworthy at this point. ", '7uf70f'], ['u/forgot-my_password', 11, '2018-02-01 08:36', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtk9e8m/', "It's being treated more as a commodity or asset. It only has value because it can be traded out for US dollars/other currency. There IS a bubble and it's going to kill bitcoin. I talked about this on a reddit thread back in November and had sold my bitcoins at its peak. While it could go even higher than that, the bitcoin is not sustainable with future regulations on crypto currency. There's also a certain point where there are so few bitcoin in circulation- because people treat it as a commodity- that people begin to shy away from accepting it. It will never be treated/used as a currency like the dollar until most people see it as an acceptable form of currency to use.", '7uf70f'], ['u/ronpaulfan69', 10, '2018-02-01 09:49', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7uf70f/cmv_cryptocurrencies_are_just_another_tech_bubble/dtkbc8c/', 'The current value of bitcoin has essentially no relationship to it’s use as a currency. It’s value has skyrocketed at the same times as consumer and retailer adoption has collapsed, there’s an inverse correlation between the two.', '7uf70f']]], ['u/reynad_NaCl', "Let's not change any narratives", 37, '2018-02-01 03:05', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/', '[I\'m responding to this blatant lie](https://imgur.com/KwljAg4)\n\nPart 1: TC and me\n\nJesus I wish I got anything. I can pull up my past dms from discord and wechat which is just me all "Hey when are you gonna open?" "When am I going to get anything?" Getting stuff and getting paid off would have been great. Then I could be like "yeah I dicked a bunch of people and it was worth it". At least then I\'d get something from their non-success as a seller. But no, I wasted about four months because it turns out they\'re not even close to legitimate. It\'s almost as if you assume the best in people until otherwise proven.\n\nSecondly, if they were scamming, they did a really shitty job considering that on my time on their IG not a single direct deal went through, and their site tc888.ru never opened either. Go wayback machine tc888.ru and tc888.com and try to find their site update because even I\'ve never seen it live.\n\nFinally, /u/Zatjingle, you\'re the one backpedaling here, practically letting them proliferate until the I\'m sorry announcement, what with their beautiful Discord seller role and all. Maybe you should have banned them once you found out they weren\'t shipping orders, which leads to the question of "What fucking orders? Did you mean those ioffer orders I can\'t even be held responsible for because those were way before my time? Or did you mean the nonexistent orders from their nonexistent website with the product pictures on their Instagram actually having been pulled from ebay jp listings without my knowledge?" I have proof of me not being clued into these by the way.\n\n\nPart 2: My ban from FashionReps\n\nThis is where it gets interesting. TC was banned about a month ago? And you\'re claiming that\'s why you banned me? Then why have I been banned for 3 months? \n\nOh yeah, that\'s right, because you actually [snaked me with Flightkickz.](https://imgur.com/a/S7QPg)\n\nI\'ve addressed this in a [post](https://gavinxpress.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/bye-fr-hahaa/)\n\n\nPart 3: Kickz.club\n\nHow are they doing by the way? Did that guy get his bitcoin refunded yet?\n\n\nPS: Just try swatting a university.', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/', '7ufc1k', [['u/OnyxBandit', 25, '2018-02-01 03:30', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/dtjwkaj/', 'All this unnecessary drama is why I stopped browsing freps. Thanks for modding an awesome sub along with the god, Lordfakeclothes', '7ufc1k'], ['u/imdoubleliftfanboy', 40, '2018-02-01 03:52', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/dtjxr32/', 'Whats up drama alert nation im your host killer keem star. Letssss gett righttttt into the news.', '7ufc1k'], ['u/ovenstuff', 12, '2018-02-01 04:47', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/dtk0o02/', "can confirm am IRL friend, i just live in a few states over in new york, didnt get anything out of it and constantly complained he wasn't getting anything from TC.", '7ufc1k'], ['u/Kvasisht', 12, '2018-02-01 06:01', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/dtk42rn/', "I honestly never thought reps would create drama. Like I'm just tryna get my reps in peace, and look fly. ", '7ufc1k'], ['u/reynad_NaCl', 15, '2018-02-01 06:04', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/Flexicas/comments/7ufc1k/lets_not_change_any_narratives/dtk47b7/', 'with any semblance of authority comes dumb niggas', '7ufc1k']]], ['u/ahwingz', 'Increase no verification accounts withdrawal to 0.5 or 1 BTC!', 155, '2018-02-01 03:29', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/', 'That would speed up the process and avoid the clusterfuck of verification process.', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/', '7ufhfq', [['u/bdarknessb', 43, '2018-02-01 03:53', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/dtjxsla/', '+1 \n\nThis would allow smaller account with 275 - 550 or less XRB to withdraw, rather than having everyone flood at the same time. ', '7ufhfq'], ['u/Wsepgwse14', 10, '2018-02-01 04:13', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/dtjywk6/', 'Yes please!', '7ufhfq'], ['u/mycroftholmess', 22, '2018-02-01 04:25', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/dtjziqk/', 'This makes so much sense. I just have under 30 that needs to be pulled out', '7ufhfq'], ['u/ExqusiteLegacy', 10, '2018-02-01 04:28', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/dtjzpv5/', 'That’d be a blessing from god', '7ufhfq'], ['u/cifz', 23, '2018-02-01 07:31', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/dtk7fp9/', 'Why are you people so naive? I understand your optimism, but he\'s using people like you as his shield. Every time someone tries to call out his bullshit, you people come along and say something positive, "he\'s working on it", "he\'s not a scammer", "he\'ll do the right thing". Well, guess what, his intention is to scam people, he\'s making calculated moves. This isn\'t going to end well for non-EU users.\n\n\nAnd for the 100th time, don\'t give him suggestions thinking that the thought hadn\'t crossed his mind. If he\'s not a scammer, he would\'ve increased the withdrawal limits by now (and he wouldn\'t have disabled withdrawals in the first place). He\'s never gonna listen to any of us.\n\n\n\n\nHis only real threat is the EU users, but he\'s taken care of it now. \n\n', '7ufhfq'], ['u/vetiarvind', 11, '2018-02-01 07:49', 'https://www.reddit.com/r/BitGrailExchange/comments/7ufhfq/increase_no_verification_accounts_withdrawal_to/dtk805v/', 'If he screws over non-EU users, I can assure ... 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You are an expert financial analyst. Your primary task is to predict the next 10 days of Bitcoin prices. Analyze the provided news and historical price data to make your forecast. Today's Key News: ['E-commerce veteran and cloud-computing expert Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported earnings after the closing bell on Thursday. The report, which covered the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, exceeded both management\'s guidance and analyst estimates across the board. Amazon\'s fourth-quarter results: The raw numbers Metric Q4 2017 Q4 2016 Year-Over-Year Change Net sales $60.5 billion $43.7 billion 38% Operating income $2.13 billion $1.26 billion 69% Net income $1.86 billion $749 million 153% GAAP earnings per share (diluted) $3.75 $1.54 143% Data source: Amazon. The bottom line included a one-time tax benefit of $789 million reflecting the effects of December\'s tax reform. Without that non-cash item, net income would have increased 74% year over year, to $1.07 billion. Earnings without the unique tax effect would have gained 42%, landing at $2.19 per diluted share. As a reminder, the top end of Amazon\'s guidance ranges for this quarter stood at 38% revenue growth and $1.65 billion in operating profits. Semi truck pulling a sky-blue trailer, which features the smiling Amazon Prime logo in white. Image source: Getty Images. What happened with Amazon this quarter? Operating income more than doubled in the North American retail segment, while net sales in that division rose 40%, to $37.3 billion. International sales climbed 29% higher, to $18.0 billion, but operating losses doubled in that segment. Cloud-computing sales under the Amazon Web Services banner rose 46% higher, stopping at $5.1 billion. Operating income increased 46%, to $1.35 billion, representing 64% of Amazon\'s total operating profits for the quarter. The Amazon Prime free shipping and streaming video program saw more than 5 billion items shipped in 2017. The company stated that "more new paid members joined Prime in 2017 than any previous year -- both worldwide and in the U.S." Amazon did not report Prime shipping volumes in 2016, and investors have never seen any firm numbers on Prime additions or membership counts. The $13.7 billion Whole Foods Market buyout was only mentioned in passing in this report, adding no color to the integration of this nationwide chain of physical stores. Story continues What management had to say In a prepared statement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos focused on the Alexa digital-assistant\'s gains in 2017. Bezos said: Our 2017 projections for Alexa were very optimistic, and we far exceeded them. We don\'t see positive surprises of this magnitude very often -- expect us to double down. There are now over 30,000 skills from outside developers, customers can control more than 4,000 smart home devices from 1,200 unique brands with Alexa, and we\'re seeing strong response to our new far-field voice kit for manufacturers. Again, we don\'t really know how many Alexa-powered devices Amazon sold last year or in the fourth quarter, nor how Alexa might impact the company\'s top or bottom lines. Bezos sure likes to keep proprietary financial details close to the vest. Looking ahead Amazon\'s stated long-term goal is to optimize its free cash flows. That isn\'t necessarily the same thing as maximizing cash flows, judging by the company\'s tendency to grow its operating cash profits while accelerating its capital spending even faster. Chart showing Amazon\'s strictest measure of free cash flows falling from $4.7 billion to negative $1.5 billion over the last five quarters. Image source: Amazon. In the first quarter of 2018, Amazon expects to deliver net sales of approximately $49.3 billion, up from $43.7 billion in the same quarter of 2017. Operating income should stop somewhere between $300 million and $1.0 billion, which would compare to $1.0 billion in the first quarter of 2017. These targets include a 3.3% revenue benefit from helpful foreign-exchange-rate trends. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool\'s board of directors. Anders Bylund owns shares of Amazon. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Amazon. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .', 'E-commerce veteran and cloud-computing expertAmazon.com(NASDAQ: AMZN)reported earnings after the closing bell on Thursday. The report, which covered the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, exceeded bothmanagement\'s guidance and analyst estimatesacross the board.\n[{"Metric": "Net sales", "Q4 2017": "$60.5 billion", "Q4 2016": "$43.7 billion", "Year-Over-Year Change": "38%"}, {"Metric": "Operating income", "Q4 2017": "$2.13 billion", "Q4 2016": "$1.26 billion", "Year-Over-Year Change": "69%"}, {"Metric": "Net income", "Q4 2017": "$1.86 billion", "Q4 2016": "$749 million", "Year-Over-Year Change": "153%"}, {"Metric": "GAAP earnings per share (diluted)", "Q4 2017": "$3.75", "Q4 2016": "$1.54", "Year-Over-Year Change": "143%"}]\nData source: Amazon.\nThe bottom line included a one-time tax benefit of $789 million reflecting the effects of December\'s tax reform. Without that non-cash item, net income would have increased 74% year over year, to $1.07 billion. Earnings without the unique tax effect would have gained 42%, landing at $2.19 per diluted share.\nAs a reminder, the top end of Amazon\'s guidance ranges for this quarter stood at 38% revenue growth and $1.65 billion in operating profits.\nImage source: Getty Images.\n• Operating income more than doubled in the North American retail segment, while net sales in that division rose 40%, to $37.3 billion.\n• International sales climbed 29% higher, to $18.0 billion, but operatinglossesdoubled in that segment.\n• Cloud-computing sales under the Amazon Web Services banner rose 46% higher, stopping at $5.1 billion. Operating income increased 46%, to $1.35 billion, representing 64% of Amazon\'s total operating profits for the quarter.\n• The Amazon Prime free shipping and streaming video program saw more than 5 billion items shipped in 2017. The company stated that "more new paid members joined Prime in 2017 than any previous year -- both worldwide and in the U.S." Amazon did not report Prime shipping volumes in 2016, and investors have never seen any firm numbers on Prime additions or membership counts.\n• The$13.7 billion Whole Foods Market buyoutwas only mentioned in passing in this report, adding no color to the integration of this nationwide chain of physical stores.\nIn a prepared statement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos focused on the Alexa digital-assistant\'s gains in 2017. Bezos said:\nOur 2017 projections for Alexa were very optimistic, and we far exceeded them. We don\'t see positive surprises of this magnitude very often -- expect us to double down. There are now over 30,000 skills from outside developers, customers can control more than 4,000 smart home devices from 1,200 unique brands with Alexa, and we\'re seeing strong response to our new far-field voice kit for manufacturers.\nAgain, we don\'t really know how many Alexa-powered devices Amazon sold last year or in the fourth quarter, nor how Alexa might impact the company\'s top or bottom lines. Bezos sure likes to keep proprietary financial details close to the vest.\nAmazon\'s stated long-term goal is to optimize its free cash flows. That isn\'t necessarily the same thing as maximizing cash flows, judging by the company\'s tendency to grow its operating cash profits while accelerating its capital spending even faster.\nImage source: Amazon.\nIn the first quarter of 2018, Amazon expects to deliver net sales of approximately $49.3 billion, up from $43.7 billion in the same quarter of 2017. Operating income should stop somewhere between $300 million and $1.0 billion, which would compare to $1.0 billion in the first quarter of 2017. These targets include a 3.3% revenue benefit from helpful foreign-exchange-rate trends.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This\nJohn Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool\'s board of directors.Anders Bylundowns shares of Amazon. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Amazon. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.', 'By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - The euro neared multi-year peaks on Friday as talk of policy tightening in Europe and expectations that inflation is set to gear higher drove up borrowing costs globally. Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries jumped to a near four-year peak, markedly steepening the curve and squeezing out investors who had feverishly bet on a tighter spread between longer-dated and short-dated yields. Global central banks have recently struck a more hawkish tone with impressive economic data and buoyant oil prices driving up long-term inflation expectations. The European Central Bank, for one, is widely expected to end its asset-purchase programme as early as September. That has pushed five-year German Bund yields above zero for the first time since 2015. UK gilt prices also cheapened significantly. Investors reacted by bidding the euro broadly higher from a more than two-year top on the yen (EURJPY=) and a three-year peak on the dollar at $1.2509 (EUR=). Yet rising U.S. yields have failed to prop up the dollar index (.DXY), which slipped for a third straight day to loiter around a three-year trough. "The trade weighted dollar continued to weaken very broadly in 2018 with the two key pillars being growth strengthening elsewhere in the world, supporting emerging market forex... and central bank divergence narrowing, supporting euro, yen and British pound," JP Morgan analyst Charles Perrin wrote in a note to clients. "The currency was also dragged by U.S. politics." The United States is witnessing deep partisan political divisions and intraparty squabbles with lawmakers unable to find common ground on most issues. The federal government shut down last month for three days when Republicans and Democrats failed to strike a deal to fund public operations. The dollar is not far off a 4-1/2 month low against the yen (JPY=). Bitcoin, the world\'s biggest and the best known cryptocurrency, continued to tumble after hitting a record high $19,666 in December on the Bitstamp exchange (BTC=BTSP). It was last down 11 percent at a more than two-month trough of $8,940. Story continues EQUITIES PAUSE Asian shares were muted following mixed signals from Wall Street. MSCI\'s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan paused around record highs. Japan\'s Nikkei (.N225) slipped 0.6 percent while South Korea\'s benchmark index (.KS11) eased 0.4 percent. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 0.14 percent, the S&P 500 (.SPX) eased 0.06 percent and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) lost 0.35 percent. High-profile tech companies reported after the closing bell on Wall Street, with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) surging 6 percent after reporting the largest profit in its history. Alphabet (GOOGL.O) was down nearly 3 percent in extended trade after its earnings missed estimates. Apple (AAPL.O) bounced more than 3 percent after posting its results. In commodities, gold hovered near a six-month peak at $1,348.2 an ounce. Oil rose after a survey showed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries\' commitment to its supply cuts remains in place, even as U.S. production topped 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970. U.S. crude (CLcv1) rose 36 cents to $66.16 per barrel and Brent (LCOcv1) edged 89 cents higher to $69.78. (Editing by Richard Pullin)', 'By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) - The euro neared multi-year peaks on Friday as talk of policy tightening in Europe and expectations that inflation is set to gear higher drove up borrowing costs globally. Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries jumped to a near four-year peak, markedly steepening the curve and squeezing out investors who had feverishly bet on a tighter spread between longer-dated and short-dated yields. Global central banks have recently struck a more hawkish tone with impressive economic data and buoyant oil prices driving up long-term inflation expectations. The European Central Bank, for one, is widely expected to end its asset-purchase programme as early as September. That has pushed five-year German Bund yields above zero for the first time since 2015. UK gilt prices also cheapened significantly. Investors reacted by bidding the euro broadly higher from a more than two-year top on the yen (EURJPY=) and a three-year peak on the dollar at $1.2509 (EUR=). Yet rising U.S. yields have failed to prop up the dollar index (.DXY), which slipped for a third straight day to loiter around a three-year trough. "The trade weighted dollar continued to weaken very broadly in 2018 with the two key pillars being growth strengthening elsewhere in the world, supporting emerging market forex... and central bank divergence narrowing, supporting euro, yen and British pound," JP Morgan analyst Charles Perrin wrote in a note to clients. "The currency was also dragged by U.S. politics." The United States is witnessing deep partisan political divisions and intraparty squabbles with lawmakers unable to find common ground on most issues. The federal government shut down last month for three days when Republicans and Democrats failed to strike a deal to fund public operations. The dollar is not far off a 4-1/2 month low against the yen (JPY=). Bitcoin, the world\'s biggest and the best known cryptocurrency, continued to tumble after hitting a record high $19,666 in December on the Bitstamp exchange (BTC=BTSP). It was last down 11 percent at a more than two-month trough of $8,940. Story continues EQUITIES PAUSE Asian shares were muted following mixed signals from Wall Street. MSCI\'s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan paused around record highs. Japan\'s Nikkei (.N225) slipped 0.6 percent while South Korea\'s benchmark index (.KS11) eased 0.4 percent. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 0.14 percent, the S&P 500 (.SPX) eased 0.06 percent and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) lost 0.35 percent. High-profile tech companies reported after the closing bell on Wall Street, with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) surging 6 percent after reporting the largest profit in its history. Alphabet (GOOGL.O) was down nearly 3 percent in extended trade after its earnings missed estimates. Apple (AAPL.O) bounced more than 3 percent after posting its results. In commodities, gold hovered near a six-month peak at $1,348.2 an ounce. Oil rose after a survey showed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries\' commitment to its supply cuts remains in place, even as U.S. production topped 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970. U.S. crude (CLcv1) rose 36 cents to $66.16 per barrel and Brent (LCOcv1) edged 89 cents higher to $69.78. (Editing by Richard Pullin)', 'Remember just over a year ago, when Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was struggling to grow its top and bottom line? Those days are long gone. Apple just posted record quarterly revenue and earnings per share for its important fiscal first quarter, which takes place during the holidays. The record results were driven primarily by a double-digit percentage increase in iPhone revenue. Apple\'s new iPhone X , in particular, was a key driver for the quarter. "iPhone X surpassed our expectations and has been our top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November," said Apple CEO Tim Cook in a press release about the quarter. But strength in Apple\'s iPad, services, and other products segments helped, too. Apple customers holding new iPhone X devices on launch day Apple customers holding new iPhone X devices on launch day. Image source: Apple. Apple earnings: The raw numbers Metric Q1 2018 Q1 2017 Change Revenue $88.3 billion $78.4 billion 13% EPS $3.89 $3.36 16% Gross profit margin 38.4% 38.5% (10 basis points) Data source: Apple\'s first-quarter consolidated financial statements . Table by author. Extending the company\'s return to growth since the first quarter of fiscal 2017, Apple\'s first-quarter revenue for fiscal 2018 was $88.3 billion, up 13% year over year. The growth rate notably marked an acceleration in revenue growth compared to Apple\'s 12% year-over-year revenue growth in Q4. Earnings per share for the quarter also increased nicely, climbing 16% year over year. However, this earnings-per-share growth was below Apple\'s 24% year-over-year growth in the metric during Q4. Apple\'s first-quarter gross profit margin was 38.4% -- about even with its gross profit margin of 38.5% in the year-ago quarter. Going into its first quarter, Apple had guided for revenue of $84 billion to $87 billion. In addition, management expected gross profit margin of 38% to 38.5%. Apple\'s revenue easily came in above its guidance range, and its gross profit margin was at the high end of management\'s expectations. Story continues Segment results Product Segment Q1 2018 Revenue Q1 2017 Revenue Change iPhone $61.6 billion $54.4 billion 13% iPad $5.9 billion $5.5 billion 6% Mac $6.9 billion $7.2 billion (5%) Services $8.5 billion $7.2 billion 18% Other products $5.5 billion $4.0 billion 36% Data source: Apple\'s first-quarter operating data. Table by author. Apple\'s $61.6 billion in first-quarter iPhone revenue increased a whopping $7.2 billion year over year, representing a 13% rise. Investors can thank Apple\'s higher average selling price for this sharp jump in iPhone revenue, since iPhone unit sales actually declined on a year-over-year basis. Other fast-growing segments during the quarter were services and other products. Revenue in these segments climbed 18% and 36%, respectively. iPad revenue was up 6% year over year, and Mac revenue was down 5% year over year. Looking ahead Looking beyond its first-quarter results, Apple forecast double-digit revenue growth in its second quarter. Apple CEO Tim Cook shakes hands with fans at an Apple store the day of the iPhone 8 launch Apple CEO Tim Cook. Image source: Apple. Specifically, management said it expected second-quarter revenue between $60 billion and $62 billion. Based on the midpoint of this guidance range, this represents 15% year-over-year growth. Second-quarter revenue at this level would mark yet another quarter of accelerating growth if it\'s achieved. Apple said it expected its second-quarter gross profit margin to be between 38% and 38.5%. This compares to a gross profit margin of 38.9% in the company\'s second quarter of fiscal 2017. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This Daniel Sparks owns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Apple. The Motley Fool has the following options: long January 2020 $150 calls on Apple and short January 2020 $155 calls on Apple. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .', 'Remember just over a year ago, whenApple(NASDAQ: AAPL)was struggling to grow its top and bottom line? Those days are long gone.\nApple just posted record quarterly revenue and earnings per share for its important fiscal first quarter, which takes place during the holidays. The record results were driven primarily by a double-digit percentage increase in iPhone revenue.\nApple\'snew iPhone X, in particular, was a key driver for the quarter. "iPhone X surpassed our expectations and has been our top-selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November," said Apple CEO Tim Cook in a press release about the quarter.\nBut strength in Apple\'s iPad, services, and other products segments helped, too.\nApple customers holding new iPhone X devices on launch day. Image source: Apple.\n[{"Metric": "Revenue", "Q1 2018": "$88.3 billion", "Q1 2017": "$78.4 billion", "Change": "13%"}, {"Metric": "EPS", "Q1 2018": "$3.89", "Q1 2017": "$3.36", "Change": "16%"}, {"Metric": "Gross profit margin", "Q1 2018": "38.4%", "Q1 2017": "38.5%", "Change": "(10 basis points)"}]\nData source: Apple\'s first-quarterconsolidated financial statements. Table by author.\nExtending the company\'sreturn to growthsince the first quarter of fiscal 2017, Apple\'s first-quarter revenue for fiscal 2018 was $88.3 billion, up 13% year over year. The growth rate notably marked an acceleration in revenue growth compared to Apple\'s 12% year-over-year revenue growth in Q4.\nEarnings per share for the quarter also increased nicely, climbing 16% year over year. However, this earnings-per-share growth was below Apple\'s 24% year-over-year growth in the metric during Q4.\nApple\'s first-quarter gross profit margin was 38.4% -- about even with its gross profit margin of 38.5% in the year-ago quarter.\nGoing into its first quarter, Apple had guided for revenue of $84 billion to $87 billion. In addition, management expected gross profit margin of 38% to 38.5%. Apple\'s revenue easily came in above its guidance range, and its gross profit margin was at the high end of management\'s expectations.\n[{"Product Segment": "iPhone", "Q1 2018 Revenue": "$61.6 billion", "Q1 2017 Revenue": "$54.4 billion", "Change": "13%"}, {"Product Segment": "iPad", "Q1 2018 Revenue": "$5.9 billion", "Q1 2017 Revenue": "$5.5 billion", "Change": "6%"}, {"Product Segment": "Mac", "Q1 2018 Revenue": "$6.9 billion", "Q1 2017 Revenue": "$7.2 billion", "Change": "(5%)"}, {"Product Segment": "Services", "Q1 2018 Revenue": "$8.5 billion", "Q1 2017 Revenue": "$7.2 billion", "Change": "18%"}, {"Product Segment": "Other products", "Q1 2018 Revenue": "$5.5 billion", "Q1 2017 Revenue": "$4.0 billion", "Change": "36%"}]\nData source: Apple\'s first-quarter operating data. Table by author.\nApple\'s $61.6 billion in first-quarter iPhone revenue increased a whopping $7.2 billion year over year, representing a 13% rise. Investors can thank Apple\'s higher average selling price for this sharp jump in iPhone revenue, since iPhone unit sales actually declined on a year-over-year basis.\nOther fast-growing segments during the quarter were services and other products. Revenue in these segments climbed 18% and 36%, respectively.\niPad revenue was up 6% year over year, and Mac revenue was down 5% year over year.\nLooking beyond its first-quarter results, Apple forecast double-digit revenue growth in its second quarter.\nApple CEO Tim Cook. Image source: Apple.\nSpecifically, management said it expected second-quarter revenue between $60 billion and $62 billion. Based on the midpoint of this guidance range, this represents 15% year-over-year growth. Second-quarter revenue at this level would mark yet another quarter of accelerating growth if it\'s achieved.\nApple said it expected its second-quarter gross profit margin to be between 38% and 38.5%. This compares to a gross profit margin of 38.9% in the company\'s second quarter of fiscal 2017.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This\nDaniel Sparksowns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Apple. The Motley Fool has the following options: long January 2020 $150 calls on Apple and short January 2020 $155 calls on Apple. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.', "Up more than 12% in 2017, the rise in the price of gold could be attributed to a number of factors, such as the political uncertainty that permeated Washington this past year. And though some of those issues -- like the revised tax legislation -- have been settled, the fog of uncertainty still lingers suggesting gold may continue climbing higher in 2018. Now, consequently, seems like an ideal time to turn our attention to two popular gold miners: Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY) and Eldorado Gold (NYSE: EGO) . Although the market writ large had an increased appetite for the yellow stuff in 2017, both Yamana and Eldorado lost some luster in the eyes of Wall Street; analysts downgraded the former three times and the latter seven times throughout the year. But that doesn't mean Main Street's investors should also forsake the companies, so let's weigh the two against each other to see which presents the better buying opportunity. Two hands cradle a gold nugget. Image source: Getty Images. A brief meet and greet Maintaining a portfolio of assets solely located in the Americas, Yamana relies primarily on the production of gold -- from one mine in South America and five in Canada -- though silver and copper also contribute to the company's top line. According to the company's most recent annual report, gold accounted for 82.4% of revenue in fiscal 2016, while silver and copper accounted for 6.3% and 11.3%, respectively. Conversely, Eldorado operates only two gold-producing mines, both of which are located in Turkey. In addition, the company operates an iron ore mine in Brazil and a silver-lead-zinc mine in Greece. The companies' footprints, though noteworthy, pale in comparison to their financials; therefore, let's compare the companies on some important metrics to gain better insight. Company Market Cap Revenue Earnings per Share Operating Margin Return on Equity Eldorado Gold $1.0 billion $405 million ($0.04) (0.7%) (0.60%) Yamana Gold $3.2 billion $1.81 billion ($0.39) (26.2%) (7.74%) Data source: Morningstar . Revenue, earnings per share, operating margin, and return on equity presented on a trailing 12month basis. Story continues From this brief look, it seems that neither company glitters too brightly, so let's grab our pickaxes and dig even deeper. The case for Yamana Gold The initial look at Yamana may suggest that it's less than attractive. This conclusion, however, is misguided, for the company offers some compelling reasons for investment. For one, Yamana is nearing the commencement of gold production at its Cerro Moro mine in Argentina. The project, which remains on schedule and on budget, is expected to begin operations in the coming months; moreover, management forecasts fiscal 2018 gold and silver production of 80,000 ounces and 4.5 million ounces, respectively. As operations ramp up, management foresees gold production rising to 130,000 ounces and silver to 9.9 million ounces in fiscal 2019. Besides promising growth prospects , management's commitment to securing the financial health of the company strengthens the argument in support of Yamana. The company (which hasn't reported fiscal 2017 earnings yet) reduced its total debt more than 22% from fiscal 2014 to 2016. During an investor presentation from last October, however, management estimated it would end fiscal 2017 with a net debt-to- EBITDA ratio of 2.8; in addition, it identified a short-term ratio of less than 2.0 and a longer-term ratio of less than 1.5. Lastly, the stock's price tag represents a compelling opportunity for bargain hunters. AUY PS Ratio (TTM) Chart AUY PS Ratio (TTM) data by YCharts . Both in terms of sales and cash flow, Yamana's shares are much more attractively priced than those of Eldorado. The case for Eldorado Gold It's not easy to substantiate the claim that Eldorado offers a better opportunity than Yamana. There's a cloud of uncertainly lingering around Eldorado at the moment: The company is in arbitration proceedings with the Greek government regarding the company's Skouries project. Successful execution of the project, which is located in northern Greece, is important to the company's future growth. Management estimates Skouries could have a mine life of 25 years, during which time it could produce 3.1 million ounces of gold and 1.47 billion pounds of copper. Eldorado expects the proceedings to conclude in early April. Another troubling factor is the company's gold production. According to preliminary results, Eldorado will report gold production of 286,000 ounces for fiscal 2017, but looking ahead, there's cause for concern as management forecast fiscal 2018 gold production to be between 160,000 ounces and 190,000 ounces. The trouble in Greece and lackluster gold production, in addition to the stock's steep price tag, suggest there's plenty of reason to watch this company's story unfold from the sidelines . The gold medal goes to. . . Between these two companies, Yamana Gold represents the clear winner. That's not to say that intrigued investors should rush out and grab some shares. Instead, they should rush out and grab a shovel, preparing to dig deeper into the company's financials. Investors should still monitor the progress at Cerro Moro. Failure to execute the project could compromise the company's near-term growth, since the company has eschewed acquisitions and opted for growth through organic means. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This Scott Levine has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .", 'Up more than 12% in 2017, the rise in the price of gold could be attributed to a number of factors, such as the political uncertainty that permeated Washington this past year. And though some of those issues -- like the revised tax legislation -- have been settled, the fog of uncertainty still lingers suggesting gold may continue climbing higher in 2018. Now, consequently, seems like an ideal time to turn our attention to two popular gold miners:Yamana Gold(NYSE: AUY)andEldorado Gold(NYSE: EGO).\nAlthough the market writ large had an increased appetite for the yellow stuff in 2017, bothYamanaand Eldorado lost some luster in the eyes of Wall Street; analysts downgraded the former three times and the latter seven times throughout the year. But that doesn\'t mean Main Street\'s investors should also forsake the companies, so let\'s weigh the two against each other to see which presents the better buying opportunity.\nImage source: Getty Images.\nMaintaining a portfolio of assets solely located in the Americas, Yamana relies primarily on the production of gold -- from one mine in South America and five in Canada -- though silver and copper also contribute to the company\'s top line. According to the company\'s most recent annual report, gold accounted for 82.4% of revenue in fiscal 2016, while silver and copper accounted for 6.3% and 11.3%, respectively. Conversely, Eldorado operates only two gold-producing mines, both of which are located in Turkey. In addition, the company operates an iron ore mine in Brazil and a silver-lead-zinc mine in Greece.\nThe companies\' footprints, though noteworthy, pale in comparison to their financials; therefore, let\'s compare the companies on some important metrics to gain better insight.\n[{"Company": "Eldorado Gold", "Market Cap": "$1.0 billion", "Revenue": "$405 million", "Earnings per Share": "($0.04)", "Operating Margin": "(0.7%)", "Return on Equity": "(0.60%)"}, {"Company": "Yamana Gold", "Market Cap": "$3.2 billion", "Revenue": "$1.81 billion", "Earnings per Share": "($0.39)", "Operating Margin": "(26.2%)", "Return on Equity": "(7.74%)"}]\nData source:Morningstar. Revenue, earnings per share, operating margin, and return on equity presented on a trailing 12month basis.\nFrom this brief look, it seems that neither company glitters too brightly, so let\'s grab our pickaxes and dig even deeper.\nThe initial look at Yamana may suggest that it\'s less than attractive. This conclusion, however, is misguided, for the company offers some compelling reasons for investment. For one, Yamana is nearing the commencement of gold production at its Cerro Moro mine in Argentina. The project, which remains on schedule and on budget, is expected to begin operations in the coming months; moreover, management forecasts fiscal 2018 gold and silver production of 80,000 ounces and 4.5 million ounces, respectively. As operations ramp up, management foresees gold production rising to 130,000 ounces and silver to 9.9 million ounces in fiscal 2019.\nBesidespromising growth prospects, management\'s commitment to securing the financial health of the company strengthens the argument in support of Yamana. The company (which hasn\'t reported fiscal 2017 earnings yet) reduced its total debt more than 22% from fiscal 2014 to 2016. During an investor presentation from last October, however, management estimated it would end fiscal 2017 with a net debt-to-EBITDAratio of 2.8; in addition, it identified a short-term ratio of less than 2.0 and a longer-term ratio of less than 1.5.\nLastly, the stock\'s price tag represents a compelling opportunity for bargain hunters.\nAUY PS Ratio (TTM)data byYCharts.\nBoth in terms of sales and cash flow, Yamana\'s shares are much more attractively priced than those of Eldorado.\nIt\'s not easy to substantiate the claim that Eldorado offers a better opportunity than Yamana. There\'s a cloud of uncertainly lingering around Eldorado at the moment: The company is in arbitration proceedings with the Greek government regarding the company\'s Skouries project. Successful execution of the project, which is located in northern Greece, is important to the company\'s future growth. Management estimates Skouries could have a mine life of 25 years, during which time it could produce 3.1 million ounces of gold and 1.47 billion pounds of copper. Eldorado expects the proceedings to conclude in early April.\nAnother troubling factor is the company\'s gold production. According to preliminary results, Eldorado will report gold production of 286,000 ounces for fiscal 2017, but looking ahead, there\'s cause for concern as management forecast fiscal 2018 gold production to be between 160,000 ounces and 190,000 ounces.\nThe trouble in Greece and lackluster gold production, in addition to the stock\'s steep price tag, suggest there\'s plenty of reason towatch this company\'s story unfold from the sidelines.\nBetween these two companies, Yamana Gold represents the clear winner. That\'s not to say that intrigued investors should rush out and grab some shares. Instead, they should rush out and grab a shovel, preparing to dig deeper into the company\'s financials.\nInvestors should still monitor the progress at Cerro Moro. Failure to execute the project could compromise the company\'s near-term growth, since the company has eschewed acquisitions and opted for growth through organic means.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs\' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin\'s Biggest Competitor Isn\'t Ethereum -- It\'s This\nScott Levinehas no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.', "In recent years, there has been a bifurcation of malls between Class A properties -- those that have the highest sales per square foot -- and those rated B or C by Green Street Advisors. Despite the supposed death of the mall, Class A properties remain vibrant retail hubs, with stable or rising sales per square foot. As a result, there is ample demand for space at these malls.\nBy contrast, B- and C-rated malls are enduring traffic and sales declines. When anchor stores close at these properties, mall owners often have trouble finding replacement tenants. This creates a vicious cycle: Who wants to go to a mall with lots of empty storefronts?\nCompared to rivals likeMacy's(NYSE: M),J.C. Penney(NYSE: JCP)is heavily exposed to these lower-performing malls. Despite this inherent challenge, it has posted surprisingly solid comp sales results in recent years. This suggests that it has a competitive advantage in serving mid-tier malls -- which could allow it to sell off some of its better stores to pay down debt.\nJ.C. Penney has a lot of stores in B-rated malls (and even C-rated malls). Image source: J.C. Penney.\nTwo years ago, an activist hedge fund that invested in Macy's published a detailed analysis of the company's real estate. At the time, more than 40% of Macy's owned and ground-leased mall-based stores were located in A-rated malls. (This concentration has probably increased due to Macy's store closures over the past two years.) That's a big reason -- along with the company's urban flagship stores -- why Macy's real estate may beworth more than its entire market value.\nJ.C. Penney's store base is spread more broadly across the spectrum of malls. As of early 2015, only a quarter of J.C. Penney's nearly 700 mall-based stores were in A-rated malls. Half were in B malls, with the rest in even worse locations.\nOne might expect that Macy's would be posting stronger sales results than J.C. Penney, due to its superior real estate. However, that hasn't been the case. Macy's posted a 2.5% comp sales decline in fiscal year 2015, followed by a 2.9% decrease in 2016 and a 3.6% fall in the first three quarters of fiscal years 2017. Meanwhile, J.C. Penney delivered 4.5% comp sales growth in fiscal year 2015, flat comp sales in 2016, and a 1% decline for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2017.\nJ.C. Penney's outperformance continued during the recent holiday season. It achieved a3.4% comp sales increasefor the combined November to December period, compared to 1.1% comp sales growth at Macy's. While J.C. Penney may have a lot of stores in weaker malls, it doesn't seem to be suffering greatly from the traffic declines there.\nIn recent years, Macy's has been more aggressive about closing stores in low-performing malls than J.C. Penney. (While J.C. Penney closed almost 140 stores last year, many of these were small, off-mall locations in rural areas.) Macy's hasn't been able to overcome the weak trends affecting these malls.\nMacy's has aggressively closed stores in weaker malls recently. Image source: Author.\nAs a result, while Macy's has lots of great real estate that could be sold for a hefty price, nearly all of those stores are vital to the company's long-term business plans. Thus, while Macy's has downsized some of its 150 best-performing stores, it hasn't closed/sold any of them outright.\nBy contrast, the core of J.C. Penney's store base is made up of properties that wouldn't be worth much to anyone else. This means that there isn't much of an opportunity cost to operating stores that the company owns. For leased stores, J.C. Penney may be able to pressure landlords for rent reductions.\nAs for J.C. Penney's stores in A-rated malls, they aren't strategically vital in the same way as Macy's stores in the same malls. In some sense, it's not very surprising. The best malls tend to cater to higher-income consumers. That isn't J.C. Penney's target market. This potentially gives the company opportunities to sell off valuable real estate that isn't critical to its business.\nBack in November, J.C. Penney CFO Jeff Davis noted that the company was likely to sell a store lease during the fourth quarter for about $50 million. It appears that this deal covered its store at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey. Last week, J.C. Penney confirmed that the Paramus location will close in early March.\nIn addition to having Macy's and J.C. Penney stores, Garden State Plaza also hasNordstromand Neiman Marcus as anchors. It's not surprising that there are other tenants willing to pay vastly more than J.C. Penney for space in an upscale mall like this.\nFor J.C. Penney, the $50 million it will receive is a meaningful sum. The company is working hard to reduce its debt load, which stood at about $4.3 billion as of late October, including $190 million that matures in February. The proceeds from selling this store will help J.C. Penney pay down this upcoming maturity, reducing its future interest expense.\nIn the coming years, J.C. Penney may find further opportunities to sell some of its best-located stores. While these stores are undoubtedly profitable, getting a lump sum payment to close them might be an attractive option. After all, J.C. Penney's stores in B-rated malls seem to be doing just fine -- and J.C. Penney needs to continue reducing its debt load.\nMore From The Motley Fool\n• 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices\n• 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018\n• 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing\n• 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today\n• The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss\n• Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This\nAdam Levine-Weinbergowns shares of J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Nordstrom. The Motley Fool recommends Nordstrom. The Motley Fool has adisclosure policy.", "In recent years, there has been a bifurcation of malls between Class A properties -- those that have the highest sales per square foot -- and those rated B or C by Green Street Advisors. Despite the supposed death of the mall, Class A properties remain vibrant retail hubs, with stable or rising sales per square foot. As a result, there is ample demand for space at these malls. By contrast, B- and C-rated malls are enduring traffic and sales declines. When anchor stores close at these properties, mall owners often have trouble finding replacement tenants. This creates a vicious cycle: Who wants to go to a mall with lots of empty storefronts? Compared to rivals like Macy's (NYSE: M) , J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) is heavily exposed to these lower-performing malls. Despite this inherent challenge, it has posted surprisingly solid comp sales results in recent years. This suggests that it has a competitive advantage in serving mid-tier malls -- which could allow it to sell off some of its better stores to pay down debt. The exterior of a J.C. Penney store. J.C. Penney has a lot of stores in B-rated malls (and even C-rated malls). Image source: J.C. Penney. Better sales trends with weaker stores Two years ago, an activist hedge fund that invested in Macy's published a detailed analysis of the company's real estate. At the time, more than 40% of Macy's owned and ground-leased mall-based stores were located in A-rated malls. (This concentration has probably increased due to Macy's store closures over the past two years.) That's a big reason -- along with the company's urban flagship stores -- why Macy's real estate may be worth more than its entire market value . J.C. Penney's store base is spread more broadly across the spectrum of malls. As of early 2015, only a quarter of J.C. Penney's nearly 700 mall-based stores were in A-rated malls. Half were in B malls, with the rest in even worse locations. One might expect that Macy's would be posting stronger sales results than J.C. Penney, due to its superior real estate. However, that hasn't been the case. Macy's posted a 2.5% comp sales decline in fiscal year 2015, followed by a 2.9% decrease in 2016 and a 3.6% fall in the first three quarters of fiscal years 2017. Meanwhile, J.C. Penney delivered 4.5% comp sales growth in fiscal year 2015, flat comp sales in 2016, and a 1% decline for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2017. Story continues J.C. Penney's outperformance continued during the recent holiday season. It achieved a 3.4% comp sales increase for the combined November to December period, compared to 1.1% comp sales growth at Macy's. While J.C. Penney may have a lot of stores in weaker malls, it doesn't seem to be suffering greatly from the traffic declines there. What's the best use of a store? In recent years, Macy's has been more aggressive about closing stores in low-performing malls than J.C. Penney. (While J.C. Penney closed almost 140 stores last year, many of these were small, off-mall locations in rural areas.) Macy's hasn't been able to overcome the weak trends affecting these malls. The exterior of a vacant former Macy's store. Macy's has aggressively closed stores in weaker malls recently. Image source: Author. As a result, while Macy's has lots of great real estate that could be sold for a hefty price, nearly all of those stores are vital to the company's long-term business plans. Thus, while Macy's has downsized some of its 150 best-performing stores, it hasn't closed/sold any of them outright. By contrast, the core of J.C. Penney's store base is made up of properties that wouldn't be worth much to anyone else. This means that there isn't much of an opportunity cost to operating stores that the company owns. For leased stores, J.C. Penney may be able to pressure landlords for rent reductions. As for J.C. Penney's stores in A-rated malls, they aren't strategically vital in the same way as Macy's stores in the same malls. In some sense, it's not very surprising. The best malls tend to cater to higher-income consumers. That isn't J.C. Penney's target market. This potentially gives the company opportunities to sell off valuable real estate that isn't critical to its business. Getting ready to follow this path? Back in November, J.C. Penney CFO Jeff Davis noted that the company was likely to sell a store lease during the fourth quarter for about $50 million. It appears that this deal covered its store at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey. Last week, J.C. Penney confirmed that the Paramus location will close in early March. In addition to having Macy's and J.C. Penney stores, Garden State Plaza also has Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus as anchors. It's not surprising that there are other tenants willing to pay vastly more than J.C. Penney for space in an upscale mall like this. For J.C. Penney, the $50 million it will receive is a meaningful sum. The company is working hard to reduce its debt load, which stood at about $4.3 billion as of late October, including $190 million that matures in February. The proceeds from selling this store will help J.C. Penney pay down this upcoming maturity, reducing its future interest expense. In the coming years, J.C. Penney may find further opportunities to sell some of its best-located stores. While these stores are undoubtedly profitable, getting a lump sum payment to close them might be an attractive option. After all, J.C. Penney's stores in B-rated malls seem to be doing just fine -- and J.C. Penney needs to continue reducing its debt load. More From The Motley Fool 3 Growth Stocks at Deep-Value Prices 5 Expected Social Security Changes in 2018 6 Years Later, 6 Charts That Show How Far Apple, Inc. Has Come Since Steve Jobs' Passing 10 Best Stocks to Buy Today The $16,122 Social Security Bonus You Cannot Afford to Miss Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor Isn't Ethereum -- It's This Adam Levine-Weinberg owns shares of J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Nordstrom. The Motley Fool recommends Nordstrom. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy .", 'The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is developing a "heightened review process" for cryptocurrency futures though it will continue to allow exchanges to self-certify products, Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo announced last week. As reported by Reuters , Giancarlo introduced a checklist during a conference speech in Florida pertaining to Designated Market Contracts (DMCs) and Derivatives Clearing Organizations (DCOs). The aim is to assist regulators as exchanges introduce new products around cryptocurrencies into the market. The chairman\'s speech came after some pushback tied to the CFTC\'s handling of the December launch of bitcoin futures by the Cboe Global Markets and the CME Group, after which the Futures Industry Association (FIA) expressed concern over potentially having to pay for outstanding bitcoin futures contracts caused by the cryptocurrency\'s volatility. The Association claimed it wasn\'t sufficiently included in the process and criticized the Commission for allowing exchanges to self-certify their futures products. Giancarlo\'s checklist requires that DMCs set "exchange large trader reporting thresholds at five bitcoins or less". It also mandates that they must enter into "information sharing agreements with spot market platforms to allow access to trade and trader data" in addition to agreeing to frequent communication with the CFTC regarding trade activities. Beyond such measures, the CFTC will leave the self-certification process alone, according to Giancarlo. He was quoted as saying: "The CFTC\'s current product self-certification framework is consistent with public policy that encourages market-driven innovation that has made America\'s listed futures markets the envy of the world. Whatever the market impact of bitcoin futures, I hope it is not to compromise the product self-certification process that has served so well for so long". Story continues Others have been scrutinizing the process as well, including some members of the U.S. Congress. Yesterday, top Senate Agricultural Committee members sent a letter to Giancarlo requesting Last 60 Days of Bitcoin's Closing Prices: [] Use the additional daily data provided in the input below for crucial context.	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New alerts (+/- 4.000 pct) set at: UP: $122.720000 - DOWN: $113.280000 $ltc #ltc #litecoin #moon TEST PERIOD #crypto $crypto $btc', "DrShackie's daily dose (GMT+1):\n\nGermany - Bundesliga\n20:30 FC Koln - #Dortmund\n\nFrance - Ligue 1\n20:45 #Marseille - #Metz\n\nSpain - LaLiga Santander\n21:00 Real #Sociedad - Dep La #Coruna\n\nDont forget your freebet @ http://drshackie.com\xa0\n#DrShackie #Bitcoin #Jackpot #Football", 'Das ist eine Aussage!!! #BitCoin wird Kursverdopplung erwartet: Ziel 28535,00 USD. Erst unter 7895 USD wirds kritisch. #BITCOIN - Hier fliegen demnächst die Fetzen! https://www.godmode-trader.de/artikel/bitcoin-hier-fliegen-demnaechst-die-fetzen,5734989\xa0…', 'BTC/USD 8.286,54 OPEN ▼ -8.04% \nETH/USD 874,94 OPEN ▼ -14.24% \n\n02/02/2018 08:00:00 (Brasília)\nFonte: http://bitstamp.net\xa0\n#bitcoin', '#BTC Average: 8270.23$\n\n#Bitfinex - 8340.00$\n#Poloniex - 8355.82$\n#Bitstamp - 8103.75$\n#Coinbase - 8106.42$\n#Binance - 8376.95$\n#CEXio - 8289.50$\n#Kraken - 8069.60$\n#Cryptopia - 8220.29$\n#Bittrex - 8378.02$\n#GateCoin - 8461.90$\n\n#Bitcoin #Exchanges #Price', "Rules for this #Bitcoin price prediction...\n\n1. Your prediction has to be made today (Feb 2nd).\n2. The winning prediction will be based on @CoinMarketCap's $BTC price on Feb 16th at 8:00 AM PST.\n3. We'll then announce the winner, send $BTC, and share confirmation.\n\nGOOD LUCK! pic.twitter.com/JlfklOSdCm", 'Sign up for Luno and get NGN\xa0100.00 worth of Bitcoin when you buy or sell NGN\xa05,000.00 (exchange\xa0excluded), using https://www.luno.com/invite/T8UD2\xa0', 'BTC Price: 8340.44$, \nBTC Today High : 9211.45$, \nBTC All Time High : 19903.44$\nETH Price: 869.00$ #bitcoin #BTC $BTC #ETH $ETH #cryptopic.twitter.com/TgvQptGPBm', '10.00 GMT Update!\n#trading #futures #commodities #eurusd #gold #oil #dowjones #Trump #FED #OPEC #dollar #euro #ECB #Bitcoin #BITCOINFUTURES #MiFIDI8 #FederalReservepic.twitter.com/ILhJ8G8iwx', 'Feb 02, 2018 10:30:00 UTC \| 8,153.90$ \| 6,530.00€ \| 5,735.50£ \| #Bitcoin #btc pic.twitter.com/lMjLrGnvYt', '#BTC Average: 8273.03$\n\n#Bitfinex - 8349.30$\n#Poloniex - 8343.95$\n#Bitstamp - 8116.40$\n#Coinbase - 8135.00$\n#Binance - 8377.78$\n#CEXio - 8275.70$\n#Kraken - 8110.30$\n#Cryptopia - 8230.00$\n#Bittrex - 8329.95$\n#GateCoin - 8461.90$\n\n#Bitcoin #Exchanges #Price']... - Contextual Past News Article: The Bitcoin Clan have been left floundering at the start of the year and Bitcoin has struggled to inspire, with the only good news of the year being the recovery from the end of the 2017 low of $12,050. Bitcoin may have managed to hold on to the 2ndhalf of the day bounce on Tuesday, but since then, any attempts to break through to $16,000 levels have been thwarted. Wednesday’s 2.95% gain will certainly not be grabbing any crypto-headlines and, as was the case on Wednesday, today’s high of $15,430.27 was followed by a sharp pull back to $14,873.95 at the time of writing, with Bitcoin down 1.88% in the early part of the day. Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold are down 6.28% and 4.23% respectively, with Bitcoin’s fall weighing on the pair, while Litecoin was also feeling the heat, down 4.9%. It’s not all doom and gloom in the cryptomarkets however, with Ripple’s continued rise drawing plenty of attention and all for the right reasons. Following the team’s decision to place the XRP coins held into escrow to bring comfort to the markets that there would be no flooding of XRP coins in the event of a price rally, the gains have been exceptional since and one gets the sense that Ripple has only just warmed up. Not a bad starting point, with Ripple having already surged to the number 2 spot by market cap, with Bitcoin now in its sites. On its current trajectory, it’s not going to take long before Ripple splashes its way past Bitcoin into the number 1 spot. The sudden shift in momentum is no mean feat when considering the surge in the cryptomarkets, with the global market cap having moved above $700bn for the first time on Wednesday. Suggested Articles • How to Buy Stellar Lumens (XLM)? • How Blockchain Can Change Our Life, Economy and the World • What is IOTA and How Can you Buy it? Previous surges in the global market cap had usually been attributed to Bitcoin, but things have changed and this week, Bitcoin has seen its market cap fall to around 35% of the global market cap, which is an all-time low. The roll out of Bitcoin futures looks to have stifled what was once the darling of the cryptoworld and with hot cryptos, including Ripple and Stellar Lumens to play with, Bitcoin’s grip on the number 1 spot is likely to loosen further. Many had expected Ethereum to challenge Bitcoin, with Ethereum ever present in the funding of ICOs, but with Ripple’s ascendency and trailblazing start to 2018, the momentum alone could see Ripple ride the wave past Bitcoin. Bitcoin investors may be wondering what might have been and where Bitcoin would be sitting, if the advice of leading financial institutions had been heeded to and the roll out of Bitcoin futures had been delayed in the interest of allowing the market to age more. But, while the Bitcoin Billionaires will sit on their accumulated wealth, those dreaming of joining the crypto-millionaire club will be on the hunt and Ripple looks to be an obvious choice. Buy & Sell Cryptocurrency Instantly Thisarticlewas originally posted on FX Empire • Strong Gains for Global Equities, US Dollar Stable after Fed Minutes • Oil Price Fundamental Daily Forecast – Prices Boosted by Another API Drawdown • Forex Trading Signals – January 04, 2018 • Oil Monthly Forecast – January 2018 • European Stocks Surge Following Robust PMI Revisions • Important CAD Pairs’ Technical Update: 04.01.2018... - Reddit Posts (Sample): no_data... Based on the news and historical prices provided in the instruction and this contextual data, predict the next 10 days of Bitcoin's closing price.
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