Category: FINANCE

Defending champion Naomi Osaka advanced to the US Open third round after Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic withdrew ahead of their second-round match on Wednesday due to illness, tournament ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin prices have declined by almost 7% since Friday, to levels of around $42,000 a unit although it recovered a bit over the weekend. The cryptocurrency also remains down by about 11% over the past ... ( read original story ...)

MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) today announced that MGM Japan, together with its joint-venture partner ORIX, has been selected by Osaka as the region's integrated resort partner. Osaka's ... ( read original story ...)

Alibaba will also prohibit the sale of cryptocurrencies themselves and ban any tutorials, strategies, and software for obtaining digital assets. ( read original story ...)

Investment in bitcoin hit its highest in four months in the week to September 24, when China announced it would ban most crypto activities. ( read original story ...)

China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies came to a head on Friday with an announcement that all crypto-related activities would now be illegal. The reasons for China’s increasingly severe bans on crypto ... ( read original story ...)

Real-time crypto market data providers CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap were blocked by the country's firewall on Tuesday, according to tests conducted. ( read original story ...)

Traditional foreign exchange companies will need to change their revenue models, which currently rely heavily on transaction fees, or risk becoming obsolete. ( read original story ...)

Alibaba, China’s largest online retailer, will stop selling cryptocurrency mining machines, according to an announcement published online Monday. The ban comes after the Chinese government made its ... ( read original story ...)

Binance, owned by billionaire Changpeng Zhao, has scaled back its services for Singaporeans as the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange seeks to comply with the regulatory standards issued by the ... ( read original story ...)

Fitch Ratings has placed the 'A' Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) Rating of Hong Kong-based FWD Life Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited (FWD Life HK) on Rating Watch Evolving (RWE). Fitch has also ... ( read original story ...)

At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average declined 56.10 points, or 0.19%, to 30,183.96. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 5.97 points, or ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s ruling party picks a new leader Wednesday to replace outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and guide the world’s third-largest economy as it tries to recover from the pandemic. Candidates ... ( read original story ...)

The AUKUS deal between the US, Australia and the UK to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines to tak ... ( read original story ...)

(hereafter "Shionogi") today announces that 11 abstracts on FETROJA ® (cefiderocol) will be shared at IDWeek. The meeting will take place virtually from Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 2021. "The data presented at ... ( read original story ...)

Virgil Griffith, a developer of Ethereum, admitted Monday that he conspired to coach North Korea on how to evade economic sanctions by using the cryptocurrency technology to conceal illegal ... ( read original story ...)