TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan posted its largest-ever trade deficit of 3.5 trillion yen ($26 billion) in January after energy import prices jumped and export growth slowed, with record red ink logged with ...
Japan is talking about mass suicide today because they didn’t have enough babies for three decades
Japan has the highest old-age ratio in the world: about 30% of its population is over 65. A very old population is bad for many reasons. One is the inability to finance its public pension system.
If You Invested $10,000 in The Trade Desk’s 2016 IPO, This Is How Much You Would Have Today
The company's initial public offering (IPO) was in hot demand and it immediately started trading at over $28 per share. It finished its first day of trading at $30.10 per share. For simplicity ...
Asia markets set to trade higher as U.S. retail sales stronger than expected
The Nikkei futures contract in Chicago was at 27,645 while its counterpart in Osaka was at 27,610 against the Nikkei 225's last close at 27,501.86. Japan is set to release its trade numbers – ...
Crypto Stocks Jump Despite Looming Regulatory Pressure
The gains suggest investors are taking a proposed SEC rule on digital-asset platforms in stride.
IPO drought will continue, market ‘too risky’
Initial public offerings (IPO) were down in 2022 amid inflationary pressures and economic downturn, and experts don’t predict the market to improve in 2023.
Reddit aims for IPO in second half of 2023 – The Information
Social media platform Reddit Inc is looking to go public later this year, likely in the second half, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The top 100 biotech VCs: Who’s staying at the table and what do they want now?
As we all know only too well, the old playbook on biotech investing got thrown out the window with the end of the IPO boom at the beginning of 2022. We recently tracked VCs' performance last year and ...
Shionogi Advances Ensitrelvir Fumaric Acid COVID-19 Antiviral Clinical Program
Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Chief Executive Officer: Isao Teshirogi, Ph.D.; hereafter "Shionogi") today announced progress on its comprehensive clinical development program for ...
SEC proposes rules that would change which crypto firms can custody customer assets
SEC chair Gary Gensler proposed amending federal custody requirements, expanding the rules to include assets like crypto, a change that would require crypto exchanges to gain further regulatory ...
Crypto index platform Alongside raises $11M led by a16z
Alongside raised $11M led by a16z after launching a crypto index token which gives people broad exposure to the entire crypto asset market ...
Crypto Regulations Update: The SEC Goes After Unregistered Securities
The SEC intends to examine whether crypto companies meet appropriate standards of care when “making recommendations, referrals or providing investment advice.” This shouldn’t be surprising after the ...
SEC Chair Gensler proposes sweeping changes that would require crypto firms to register in order to custody assets
SEC chair Gary Gensler proposed sweeping reforms that would alter the nature of crypto exchanges' institutional and investor custody programs.
FTX bankruptcy judge rejects call for new investigation into crypto exchange’s collapse – court hearing
REUTERS/Marco Bello Feb 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday denied calls for a new, independent investigation into the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, saying that the proposed ...
KDDI Uses Wind River Studio for Its Commercial Deployment of 5G Open vRAN Sites in Japan
Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, today announced that Wind River Studio is being used by KDDI for its O-RAN–compliant 5G virtualized base ...
Japan’s PM Kishida vows to boost child-rearing budget to 4% of GDP
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Wednesday to boost Japan's budget for child-rearing to 4 percent of the country's gross domestic ...