| Welcome to Finance Insider, Business Insider's summary of the top stories of the past 24 hours. Sign up here to get the best of Business Insider delivered direct to your inbox. Citigroup released fourth-quarter results Tuesday, beating the expectations of Wall Street analysts with adjusted earnings of $1.28 a share. Analysts were expecting the bank to report adjusted earnings — which don't include short-term impacts of the new tax law — of $1.19 a share. It's expected to be a noisy quarter for bank earnings in general, thanks in part to the tax law, which has caused many banks to book losses on repatriated cash and deferred tax assets that declined in value. Overall, Citi lost $18.3 billion, or $7.15 a share, for the quarter. That included a one-time, non-cash charge of $22 billion, or $8.43 a share, on account of the new tax law. Elsewhere in finance news, Goldman Sachs' vaunted commodities-trading team got butchered in 2017. Two of the biggest high-speed trading firms are joining forces in a deal that's a "sign of the times." And Apple, Amazon, and other tech titans could threaten big banks in one key area. There's a ton of markets and investing news, so let's jump right in: In crypto news, two blockchain ETFs are launching — but the SEC asked them to take blockchain out of their names. Messaging app Telegram is looking to raise $1.2 billion in an ICO to become the Mastercard "for the new decentralized economy." The CEO of the oldest bitcoin exchange says all platforms are struggling with "the massive, massive amount of new users." And just about every cryptocurrency is getting smoked. |
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