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Chinese journalist Colin Wu, who covers everything related to the cryptocurrency market, crypto exchanges, etc, has tweeted that the Hong Kong stock market had plunged. In particular, the Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index has lost almost seven percent on the day, reaching a 52-week low.
The Hong Kong stock market plummeted, triggering a decline in global markets and cryptocurrencies. The main reason is Evergrande, China's largest real estate company with nearly 2 trillion debts. Tether just clarified that it does not hold Evergrande commercial votes.
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) September 20, 2021
Hong Kong stock market plummets
According to Colin Wu, the bloodbath faced by the global crypto market has been caused by the decline of Evergrande Real Estate Group’s stock collapse by 10.24 percent.
Prior to that, the index fell 17 percent as well. According to the 2021 Fortune Global 500 List, the Evergrande Real Estate Group is the second largest property developer in China by sales. It is also 122nd largest group in the world by profits.
Other Hong Kong’s real estate giants have also faced a massive stock sell-off, among them is Henderson Land Development Co.
According to Wu, Evergrande has debts worth almost $2 trillion. The growing concerns about the debt crisis of one of the largest real-estate companies has hit a wide range of markets – from bank shares to high-yield dollar bonds and Ping An Insurance Group Co. stocks as well.
Bitcoin faces $312 million in liquidations as the Chinese news hits crypto
As reported by U.Today previously, the flagship cryptocurrency had dropped by almost 9 percent, dropping from the high of $48,700 on Saturday to $44,436 earlier today.
The Bitcoin market witnessed a massive amount of liquidations worth a whopping $312 million in a single hour. On the Bybit exchange alone nearly half of the Bitcoin positions was liquidated - $153 million.
Data from crypto exchanges shows multiple surges of BTC supply, which may lead to further sell-off if Bitcoin keeps declining below the $45,000 support level. At the time of writing this, the leading digital currency is changing hands at $44,900 per coin.
The altcoin market is also in the red today after taking a painful blow from the news about Evergrande Real Estate Group.
El Salvador buys the Bitcoin dip
Still, the community keeps buying the deep. As covered by U.Today, El Salvador president Nayib Bukele tweeted that the government of the country had acquired another 150 Bitcoins, now holding a total of 700 BTC.
Over the weekend, the president boasted that over 1.1. million local residents had downloaded the locally produced Chivo BTC wallet. Each of them received a $30 worth of BTC for taking that step.