Category: FINANCE

Staunch supporters of bitcoin on Wednesday night were questioning Elon Musk's crypto bona fides after the CEO of Tesla Inc. said that the company would ... ( read original story ...)

By Eimi Yamamitsu and Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) -Dozens of Japanese towns have abandoned plans to host Olympics athletes due to concerns they will overburden already stretched medical resources ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, extending a rout on Wall Street following US inflation data that fuelled worries about a sudden shift in monetary policy.The benchmark Nikkei 225 index ... ( read original story ...)

The surplus of the travel balance, showing the amount of money foreign tourists spend in Japan versus Japanese spending abroad, shrank to ¥264.5 billion. ( read original story ...)

The project will also relocate from Switzerland to the US, as it scales back its global cryptocurrency ambitions. ( read original story ...)

Dozens of Japanese towns have abandoned plans to accept overseas athletes competing in the Olympics from July due to concerns about inadequate resources amid a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's bank lending slowed sharply in April as corporate fund demand stabilised from last year's pandemic-driven spike, data showed on Thursday, a sign the wall of money pumped by the central bank is ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's travel surplus in fiscal 2020 plunged 89.2 percent from the previous year, as the number of inbound visitors nosedived due to ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's current account surplus stood at 2.65 trillion yen ($24.16 billion) in March, Ministry of Finance data showed on Thursday. That compared with economists' median forecast for a surplus of 2.8 ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese technology and telecoms conglomerate Group Corp has transferred its 40% shareholding in mobile ad services platform InMobi - its oldest investment in India - to Softbank Vision Fund (SVF) 2, ... ( read original story ...)

In just a matter of weeks, millions of sports enthusiasts will be glued to their screens for one of the biggest sporting events of the year: the Tokyo Olympics. After a ... ( read original story ...)

Japan posted a current account surplus of 2,650.1 billion yen in March, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday - up 37.3 percent on ... ( read original story ...)

The cryptocurrency that shot to a more than $45 billion valuation since it began trading on Monday could be just the tip of the iceberg for a new type of blockchain that hopes to remake how people ... ( read original story ...)

Women account for 53% of Americans interested in getting into the crypto market in the near term, according to a study by crypto exchange Gemini. ( read original story ...)

The Diem Association, a group of Facebook Inc. and 25 other companies and nonprofit groups once known as Libra, is moving its main operations to the U.S. and partnering with a bank to issue a ... ( read original story ...)

American comedy shows are not the only ones having a hard time defining what crypto assets are. Dogecoin is perhaps their most bizarre manifestation: starting as a gimmick, its value has surged more ... ( read original story ...)