Over a one-hour stretch on Saturday, when the stock markets were closed, the price of Bitcoin plunged by nearly $10,000 to $42,296. There's the typical headwinds of Omicron and Fed tightening, ... ( read original story ...)
Marathon Digital, Riot Lead Crypto Stocks Lower as Bitcoin Sinks
Stocks exposed to cryptocurrencies plunged in premarket trading on Monday as Bitcoin’s retreat from the record high it reached last month ballooned to nearly 30%. ( read original story ...)
BitMart: Crypto-exchange loses $150m to hackers
Crypto-currency exchange BitMart says hackers have stolen about $150m (£113m) worth of tokens from its "hot wallets". Those affected, one storing Ethereum and one Binance Smart Chain tokens, "carry a ... ( read original story ...)
From How To Get a Raise to Investing in Crypto: The Financially Savvy Female’s Top Columns of the Year
GOBankingRates launched "The Financially Savvy Female," a column dedicated to empowering women to take control of their finances. We believe that financial literacy can help women ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto has had a rough few days. The biggest test is still to come, Morgan Stanley strategists say.
Putting the last week’s events to the side, crypto is heading to a challenging time — a Federal Reserve rate-hike cycle. Morgan Stanley strategist Michelle Weaver said it’s one of the four major ... ( read original story ...)
The Station: Didi delists, a plea for the Chips Act and crypto for in-car purchases
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, ... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank shares tumble as portfolio companies experience setbacks
SoftBank portfolio companies including Alibaba, Arm and Didi Chuxing are all experiencing periods of uncertainty that has hit their market value. ( read original story ...)
Japan Nikkei falls on Omicron concerns
At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average declined 102.20 points, or 0.36%, to 27,927.37. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange dropped 10.32 points ... ( read original story ...)
Japan needs to ditch balanced budget goal, says head of LDP fiscal panel
Japan's government should ditch its target to balance the budget and instead spend more to achieve the central bank's 2% inflation target, the head of the ruling party's new panel on fiscal policy ... ( read original story ...)
MapmyIndia IPO: GMP strong ahead of issue opening this week. Know price band, other details
The public issue is expected to fetch ₹1,039.6 crore at the upper end of the price band. As per market observers, MapmyIndia shares in the grey market are commanding a strong premium of ₹780. The ... ( read original story ...)
SenseTime launches HK$6bn IPO
SenseTime Group, an artificial intelligence software company, has opened its long-awaited Hong Kong IPO with pre-deal orders from state-owned cornerstone investors. IPO sponsors CICC, Haitong ... ( read original story ...)
A gathering storm: why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in 1941?
Japan’s relentless empire-building in the 1930s put the US on red alert – but could Roosevelt convince a reluctant public to stand against the Rising Sun? Francis Pike considers the tensions between ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. embassy in Tokyo warns of ‘suspected racial profiling’ by Japanese police
Japan is a mostly ethnically homogeneous country where some people equate more immigrants with a rise in crime, although foreign labour is increasingly needed to make up for a declining and ageing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Calls For Extra Budget To Parliament For Economy Impacted By COVID-19
Japan’s govt submitted to parliament a draft extra budget for the fiscal year 2021 worth a record $320 billion for partial financing of its economic package ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Govt Submits Extra Budget Bill to Diet
The Japanese government on Monday submitted to the Diet, the country's parliament, a fiscal 2021 supplementary budget bill that calls for general-account spending of 35,989.5 billion yen, a record ... ( read original story ...)
Editorial: Japan govt’s 20,000-yen handout misses the point on slow ‘My Number’ ID uptake
The Japanese government is trying to boost the uptake of "My Number" personal ID number cards by offering up to 20,000 yen (about $177)-worth of points that can be used for shopping. The incentive is ... ( read original story ...)