Category: FINANCE

The price of bitcoin is once again on the ascendency, jumping by nearly 10 per cent overnight to take it back above $35,000 on Monday morning. Other leading cryptocurrencies have benefitted from a ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's industry ministry said Monday it will launch a probe into two of its officials who were arrested last week for allegedly swin ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin pushed higher Monday as proponents took the U.K.’s crypto crackdown in their stride after the token traded above a key technical level over the weekend. ( read original story ...)

The cryptocurrency aficionados’ mantra that Bitcoin is equivalent to digital gold is winning converts among the world’s biggest holders of the precious metal. ( read original story ...)

Sweetgreen Inc., the West Adams-based salad and grain bowl restaurant chain, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a publicly traded company. Sweetgreen isn’t disclosing much ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group will invest about 10 billion yen ($90 million) in Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., a Philippines-based commercial banking group, Nikkei has learned. It aims to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is set to invest around 10 billion yen ($90.3 million) in Philippine bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, taking a 5% stake, the Nikkei financial daily ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's key Nikkei 225 index closed slightly lower Monday on profit-taking, with few fresh market-moving events following a mixed close on Wall Street.The benchmark Nikkei 225 index inched down 0. ( read original story ...)

A former head of an egg production firm on Monday admitted giving 5 million yen in bribes in 2018-2019 to then Japanese agriculture minister Takamori Yoshikawa. Yoshiki Akita, 87, the former boss of ... ( read original story ...)

Binance, the world's biggest crypto-currency exchange, has been banned by the UK's financial regulator. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ruled that the firm cannot conduct any "regulated ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei index ended flat on Monday, weighed down by chip-related stocks tracking a muted Nasdaq trade in the previous session, while investors were also cautious ahead of key U.S. ( read original story ...)

Bunmei Ibuki, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight who served as speaker of the House of Representatives, said Monday he wil ... ( read original story ...)

Binance, the world's biggest crypto-currency exchange, has been banned by the UK's financial regulator. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ruled that the firm cannot conduct any "regulated ... ( read original story ...)

The cryptocurrency aficionados’ mantra that Bitcoin is equivalent to digital gold is winning converts among the world’s biggest holders of the precious metal. ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei index slipped on Monday, weighed down by losses in chip-related stocks following a muted Nasdaq session on Friday, while investors were also cautious ahead of key U.S. ( read original story ...)

According to a three-day telephone survey conducted from Friday on about 1,000 voters in the nation's capital, 31.8% said they have decided to vote for the LDP or will most likely do so. ( read original story ...)