At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average advanced 410.05 points, or 1.73%, to 24,105.28, marking its highest closing level since Oct. 3, 2018. The broader Topix index of all First Section ... ( read original story ...)
How a Japanese Rice Farmer Got Tangled Up in the Hertz Bankruptcy
A Japanese bank serving a system of cooperatives for farmers and fishermen has sought higher returns in the form of risky U.S. corporate loans. That meant trouble when Hertz filed for bankruptcy ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Is on a Hiring Spree in Japan
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is hiring in Japan, years after first saying it planned to launch services in the country. According to a tweet by the exchange’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, Coinbase has “a ... ( read original story ...)
Bain Capital won’t list Japanese chipmaker Kioxia in 2020, Jiji reports
Bain Capital said it would not list Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings this year, Jiji news agency reported on Thursday, citing a Bain executive in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)
Asia-Pacific stocks mostly higher as investors wait for U.S. election results; Ant Group IPO suspended
Pacific were mostly higher in Wednesday morning trade as investors in Asia-Pacific wait for the result of the U.S. presidential election. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Service Sector Continues To Shrink In October
Japan's service sector continued to contract in October but the pace of decline eased amid a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions, ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Nikkei share average opens up 0.34 pct
Japan's benchmark Nikkei average opened up 0.34 percent at 23,776.20 on Thursday, while the broader Topix gained 0.17 percent at 1,629.94. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Oct services sector moves closer to stabilisation – PMI
Activity in Japan's services sector moved a notch closer to stabilisation in October, contracting at the slowest pace since January as pressure on demand from the coronavirus pandemic eased. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s October services sector moves closer to stabilisation – PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) - Activity in Japan's services sector moved a notch closer to stabilisation in October, contracting at the slowest pace since January as pressure on demand from the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Conversation: With ReddCoin, It Pays to Be Social
ReddCoin is a community-driven project that uses blockchain technology to bring micro-payments to social media. Its native asset, RDD, allows users to reward others for the content they put out. The ... ( read original story ...)
Global Core Banking Software Market Size By End User, By Region 2020 | Overview, Growth, Economics, Demand And Forecast Research Report To 2026
The Core Banking Software market report provides a detailed analysis of global market size, regional and country-level market size, segmentation market growth, market share, competitive Landscape, ... ( read original story ...)
MobiePay Paves Way for PayPal by Solving Crypto’s Spending Problem
Cryptocurrency holders often talk about striving towards mainstream adoption, but only recently has this vision come into sharp focus. After months of fervent speculation, PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) has ... ( read original story ...)
The decline and fall of crypto-libertarians: influencing the crypto licencing map
At the birth of the modern internet in the 1990s, cyber-libertarians argued that it created a “free” World Wide Web ... ( read original story ...)
Alibaba falls after Ant IPO suspended; Asia-Pacific stocks higher as U.S. election results trickle in
Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba tanked in Wednesday trade after the anticipated initial public offering of affiliate Ant Group was suspended. ( read original story ...)
‘It’s a Joke’: Retail Investors Shocked as China Halts Ant Group’s IPO
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mom-and-pop investors who put in bids worth a record $3 trillion in China's Ant group - equivalent to Britain's annual economic output - were stunned after regulators abruptly ... ( read original story ...)
Some in Bank of Japan urged scrutiny on COVID-19 response – September meeting minutes
Some Bank of Japan policymakers called for deeper scrutiny on how to address the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic as the economic outlook remained highly uncertain, minutes of the central bank's ... ( read original story ...)