Tag: finance

The value of overall bank lending in Japan was up 0.6 percent on year for the second straight month in December, the Bank of Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Japan logged a current account surplus of 897.3 billion yen ($7.8 billion) in November, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Among key components, the country had a goods trade deficit of 431.3 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan posted a current account surplus of 897.3 billion yen in November, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday - down 48.2 ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese manufacturers turned less positive about their business conditions in January, in a sign the economy faces pressure from the Omicron variant as well as rising energy and raw material costs, ... ( read original story ...)

Investments related to cryptocurrencies and digital assets are the top threat to investors "by far," according to a survey of securities regulators. ( read original story ...)

"Nobody from the government, law enforcement, utility company, or prize promoter will ever tell you to pay them with cryptocurrency," says the FTC. ( read original story ...)

Investments tied to cryptocurrencies and digital assets are by far the biggest threats facing individual investors in 2022, according to an annual survey of securities regulators by the North American ... ( read original story ...)

Digital assets' recent plunge in value underscores the need for risk management and regulation. Bit by bit, the pieces are coming together. ( read original story ...)

Dirk Van den Berghe helped run Walmart’s businesses in Canada, China, India and Japan, and oversaw the retail giant’s global sourcing ... ( read original story ...)

Shares of crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) have been an outlier, losing less than bitcoin. CoinDesk data show bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has lost over 39% of its value since ... ( read original story ...)

A small river in the middle of coffee plantations, sugar cane fields and a forest provides energy to a hydroelectric power plant in Costa Rica that feeds hundreds of computers wired up to the ... ( read original story ...)

One of the largest tech investors globally, SoftBank, is investing $146 million in the South Korean AI company Qraft Technologies to help it expand into the U.S. ( read original story ...)

While the market open looks positive, investors will want to take note of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee at 10 AM ET this morning. While Powell's ... ( read original story ...)

SuMi joins existing investors New Investment Solutions and NXC Corporation in the equity round, taking DMI Finance’s total equity base to $500 million (approximately ₹3,700 crore) ... ( read original story ...)

Rise in demand for smartphones, tablets, and other electronic devices drives the growth of the Japan mobile battery market. However, the offline segment held the largest share in 2020, accounting for ... ( read original story ...)

The world’s second-biggest gold miner is confident prices will hold firm this year, if not rise, as investors use the metal rather than cryptocurrencies to hedge against inflation and jewelry demand ... ( read original story ...)