Robinhood Shares Drop 20% After FTX Turmoil

The share price of NASDAQ-listed zero-free trading app Robinhood (ticker:HOOD) fell 19% on Tuesday after information that Binance, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, agreed to acquire FTX, a crypto platform owned by, a soon-to-be former billionaire, Sam Bankman-Fried.

The sharp price drop occurs amid concerns that the cryptocurrency mogul, who bought a 7.6% stake in Robinhood in May 2022, will have to sell at least some of it to solve his company’s current crisis. This week, the liquidity
Liquidity

The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash. The most liquid asset of all is cash itself. ·      In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. ·      Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent varying degrees of liquidity. This can be differentiated as market liquidity or accounting liquidity.·      Liquidity refers to a tangible construct that can be measures. The most common ways to do so include a current ratio, quick ratio, and cash ratio. What is the Definition of Liquidity? Liquidity is a common definition used in investing, banking, or the financial services space. Its primary function is to ascertain how quickly a given asset can be bought, sold, or exchanged without a disparity in market price.  Which of the following assets is the most liquid? By definition, in terms of liquidity, cash is unequivocally seen as the most liquid asset in an economic sense. This is due to its widespread acceptance and ease of conversion into other assets, forms of cash, or currencies, etc. All other liquid assets must be able to be quickly and efficiently converted into cash, i.e., financial liquidity. This includes such things as stocks, commodities, or virtually any other construct that has an associated value. By extension, illiquid or non-liquid assets are not able to be quickly converted into cash. These assets,…