Tag: finance

Just over half of the Japanese public supports holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo next month as long as hard limits are placed on the number of spectators, a Nikkei-TV Tokyo survey for the month of ... ( read original story ...)

The morning before he took his own life, he quietly said “thank you” to his wife as she left. “His face was full of despair,” she recalls. “I think he’d been crying.” Suicides by middle-aged men are ... ( read original story ...)

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority issued a consumer warning against Binance Markets Ltd., banning the cryptocurrency exchange from undertaking any regulated activity in the country. ( read original story ...)

Serena Williams will not appear at the upcoming Tokyo Olympic games, but the four-time gold medal winner declined to state why. Speaking at her pre-Wimbledon press conference, Williams said: “I’m ... ( read original story ...)

The Minister of Finance and National Economy, HE Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, today received the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Bahrain, HE Miyamoto Masayuki. HE the ... ( read original story ...)

Blockchain-based currencies are making inroads in the Middle East with Dubai’s first-of its-kind crypto listing and the Bank of Israel’s trial of a digital shekel. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike will extend her convalescence for fatigue for a few more days on orders from her doctor, the city's government said on Sunday, just weeks before the Olympics are due to ... ( read original story ...)

Companies are racing to public markets like never before, cashing in on record-high stock prices.An all-time high of almost $350 billion has been raised in initial public offerings in the first six ... ( read original story ...)

The new online classes, along with cost-cutting measures, have helped make the startup profitable for the first time. For the fiscal year ended May, its sales rose 25% from the previous year. ( read original story ...)

In a big morale boost ahead of the Tokyo Games, India’s Amit Panghal was on Saturday ranked as World No. 1 boxer in his men’s flyweight (52kg) category by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ... ( read original story ...)

Michael Saylor, the chief executive of business intelligence software company-turned bitcoin accumulator Microstrategy, has warned China’s crackdown on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies could be a ... ( read original story ...)

Digital currencies are making their way from the margins to the mainstream, and that’s something to celebrate — once we understand it. ( read original story ...)

Fundstrat Global Advisors has issued a word of caution to its bitcoin and crypto investing clients, advising them to take some risk off the table, or ... ( read original story ...)

Katie Haun, a co-chair of Andreessen Horowitz’s new $2.2 billion crypto fund, is betting that the blockchain will be as big as the internet. ( read original story ...)

The digital currency’s latest selloff from heady highs points to a possible period of flat trading. ( read original story ...)

Olympic and Paralympic Games organisers will give all 70,000 volunteers working for the Games an opportunity to receive a COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)