Tag: finance

The glitz and glamour comes with the financial responsibility young men are going to have to deal with when they sign rookie contracts. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei closed lower on Monday to post its largest drop in more than six weeks, as the index tracked Wall Street’s losses after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated near-term ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese government bond yields were hemmed into narrow ranges on Monday by the Bank of Japan's bond buying operation, alongside a respite in the selloff in the yen and in U.S. Treasuries. Benchmark ... ( read original story ...)

Shares in Asia-Pacific fell on Monday following a sell-off on Wall Street on Friday. Australia and New Zealand markets are closed for a holiday. Chinese telecommunications company ZTE and South ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency booms are often fueled by dreams of life-changing riches. In Afghanistan, buyers are instead snapping up digital coins in hopes of preserving what wealth they have -- and keeping it out ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase continues to have a "bull thesis" even amid a crypto market sell-off, according to one analyst. ( read original story ...)

The top 4 of 10 DeFi protocols account for 49% of total value locked of the entire DeFi market on the Ethereum blockchain. ( read original story ...)

Also on Sunday, Japanese media outlet Nikkei revealed that Japan and the US will hold joint military drills in Hokkaido this fall, with the two-week exercises expected to involve more than 4,000 ... ( read original story ...)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its forecast for global economic growth in 2022 to 3.6 percent, and slashed its growth forecast for Japan by 0.9 percentage points to 2.4 percent, ... ( read original story ...)

Traders around the world watch the yen’s rise and fall not just to follow Japanese markets but also to gauge how investors globally are feeling. Usually, when markets are rallyi ... ( read original story ...)

Startups are offering people a way to buy stakes in rental homes for as little as $50 through blockchain-based tokens. ( read original story ...)

Laws and regulations for foreign exchange should be amended if needed to cover crypto alongside traditional assets, the global stability watchdog said. ( read original story ...)

Ukraine's central bank has announced new restrictions on purchases of crypto (and other such "quasi cash'" transactions). ( read original story ...)

Russia's financial intelligence unit met in Moscow with the regional head of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. The Russians wanted Binance to agree to hand over client data, including ... ( read original story ...)

The chief of the International Monetary Fund's Japan mission believes the yen's rapid recent slide could hamper the pandemic-str ... ( read original story ...)

North Korean hackers who last month carried out one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever are still laundering their haul more than a week after they were identified as the thieves. ( read original story ...)