Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.90% in early trade while Japan's Nikkei 225 added 1.37%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures rose 0.92%
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is proposing to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in the country and create a framework for an official digital currency
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index closed down 0.5% as investors sold the big tech stocks that have driven the market rally since last March
Investors focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors may also have cause for concern
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The stock dropped as much as 12% to $627.10 in New York on Tuesday
The world's biggest cryptocurrency suffered its biggest daily drop in a month
Tesla's biggest decline since September was fueled in part by Musk's comments over the weekend that the prices of Bitcoin and smaller rival Ether 'do seem high'
Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain, also dropped more than 5% and last bought $1,707, down almost 17% from last week's record peak
Bitcoin plunged as much as 17 per cent and briefly back below $50,000 in New York
The most popular cryptocurrency rallied over the weekend to record levels, almost doubling year-to-date. It hit a market capitalisation of $1 trillion on Friday
Japan's Nikkei recouped 1.0% and South Korea 0.4%, while E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were a fraction firmer
Bitcoin, which commands more than $50,000 on any exchange today, was founded anonymously in 2009
Cryptos will develop frameworks for increased privacy, and checks could generate reduced intrusions into uses of conventional money
Crypto believers are dueling with skeptics: the former see an asset being embraced for its ability to hedge risks, while the latter sense a precarious mania riding atop waves of fiscal stimulus