Osaka Matsui Management have said Gold prices have reached record highs as the US-China dispute continues to intensify whilst hammering the dollar. ( read original story ...)
Ethereum as Lifestyle Brand: What Unicorns and Rainbows Are Really About
Ethereum is more than a technology, it’s a lifestyle. Beyond cryptocurrency, the software has attracted a diverse community of contributors. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Biggest Banks May Stave Off Bad Loan Surge, for Now
Japanese banks face sharply higher bad loan costs due to the pandemic, but the damage is unlikely to show through in first-quarter earnings reports.The three largest lenders have already forecast ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo, Sydney aim to lure edgy HK financial firms, but Singapore a top draw
Japan, Australia and some other nations are readying incentives to attract banks and asset managers in Hong Kong that are worried about the new security law imposed by China, but finance sector ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s ‘Zombie Olympics’ Should Be Delayed Or Left For Dead?
What we’ve seen in Tokyo over the last seven years is policy distraction of Olympian dimensions. It’s now culminating in a deepening recession. ( read original story ...)
Asian stocks mixed amid US-China feud, economic unease
Wall Street ended last week down after a new diplomatic flare-up between Washington and Beijing and mixed earnings reports. ( read original story ...)
China-Backed Crypto Guru Wants to Unify the World’s Blockchains
The blockchain world today is thousands of disparate platforms that can’t talk to each other. So a little-known startup hatched one of the most ambitious plans yet to bridge all the divides -- and ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Long & Short: Where Fintech Ends and Crypto Begins
She asked: “Is crypto fintech?” My instinctive answer was “no!” For me, fintech is technology applied to finance, while cryptocurrency is a technology unto itself. That technology is giving rise to a ... ( read original story ...)
Trading Day: Australian shares turn higher after early dip, amid COVID case concerns
Welcome to the Trading Day blog for Monday, July 27. Australian shares turned higher after an early dip, amid rising tensions with China and ongoing concerns over coronavirus case numbers. The nations ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Revises Down First-Quarter Corporate Capex to 0.1% Year-On-Year Increase: MOF
Japan's economy, the world's third-largest ... to the first-quarter GDP figures on Aug. 3 reflecting the revised capital spending data from the finance ministry. (Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Writing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan revises down Q1 corporate capex to 0.1% yr/yr increase – MOF
Japan’s economy, the world’s third-largest ... to the first-quarter GDP figures on Aug. 3 reflecting the revised capital spending data from the finance ministry. (Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Writing ... ( read original story ...)
Pandemic Forces Digital Change on Japan’s Businesses
The coronavirus pandemic may be a drag on economies across the globe, but in Japan it’s bringing long-overdue change in work habits and tools.About 90% of Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co.’s ... ( read original story ...)
RPT-Twenty years on, Japan government’s digital ambitions still stuck in piles of paper
Two decades after Japan rolled out an ambitious plan to go digital, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the government's deeply rooted technological shortcomings as ministries remain stuck in a ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Jan.-March business spending revised down to 0.1% rise
Capital spending by Japanese companies rose 0.1 percent in the January-March quarter from a year earlier, revised downward from an earlier result of 4.3 percent growth, the government said Monday. ( read original story ...)
G-20 finance chiefs to hold teleconference over virus pandemic
(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging countries will hold a videoconference Saturday to share their recognition of current economic situations hit hard ... ( read original story ...)
Japan defense agency holds first auction of discarded SDF equipment
The first-ever auction of discarded Self-Defense Forces equipment, including items from a training vessel decommissioned in spring, was held Sunday by an agency affiliated with Japan's Defense ... ( read original story ...)