Category: FINANCE

Olympics organisers have pledged to prioritise sustainability at the Tokyo Games in an attempt to demonstrate how countries such as Japan -- a top carbon emitter -- can work towards a greener future. ( read original story ...)

Not a great week for bitcoin as it’s squeezing into a tight consolidation range in the low-$30,000s. The cryptocurrency, promoted as a hedge against inflation but still seen as a risky asset, took a ... ( read original story ...)

The 48-year-old Canadian has had a security team since 2017, and mostly been accompanied on his travels, Bloomberg said. ( read original story ...)

Rising global commodity prices are likely to push up Japan's consumer inflation, though only for a temporary period, and to a smaller extent than in Western economies, the Bank of Japan said on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

A third athlete at the Olympic Village in Tokyo has tested positive for COVID-19 with the Czech Republic team reporting the latest case Monday. Beach volleyball player Ondřej Perušič's opening game in ... ( read original story ...)

Nikko Asset Management's Chief Global Strategist, John Vail, makes his bullish case for the Japanese market. ( read original story ...)

OPEC and its allies reached a deal on Sunday to phase out 5.8 million barrels per day of oil production cuts by September 2022. ( read original story ...)

Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Cumulative global cases have reached 190,284,516, according to Johns Hopkins ... ( read original story ...)

Saito, a 43-year-old former head of the finance section of the Osaka prefectural government, was supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai. ( read original story ...)

Panama expects the cooperation in the fields of investment and finance to help in the recovery of its economy, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the foreign ministry said. ( read original story ...)

Anthony Di Iorio, one of ethereum's eight cofounders and an early bitcoin adopter, has said he's quitting the world of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei average opened down 1.21 percent at 27,663.40 on Monday, while the broader Topix shed 1.00 percent at 1,912.85. T Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is ... ( read original story ...)

The definitive collection of the best investing stories Business Insider published during the week ended July 17. ( read original story ...)

Taihei Shigemori, deputy general manager in Nikkei’s digital transformation office, thought a US$40 monthly subscription price might be too much. But 800,000 subscribers disagreed. Now Nikkei is ... ( read original story ...)

On the day of one of the cryptocurrency market’s worst routs, Alex Holland woke up to a wave of messages from friends and family. They knew he had made a big wager recently that prices would fall. ( read original story ...)

For cryptocurrency enthusiasts who typically rebel against traditional approaches to finance, the digital trend presents an opportunity to create virtual money for a whole nation. ( read original story ...)