Tag: finance

Bitcoin prices have plummeted from levels of around $62,000 in mid-April to just about $35,000 as of Sunday. The sell-off is driven by factors including Tesla’s decision to not accept the digital ... ( read original story ...)

Is Bitcoin really usable as a currency? A lot of businesses are starting to accept it and some are figuring out ways to scale transactions. ( read original story ...)

Goldman Sachs, HSBC and the Bank of England are among institutions to take different stances on the cryptocurrency. ( read original story ...)

Coinbase was a big beneficiary of the crypto boom, with revenues in Q1 rising over 9x year-over-year to about $1.8 billion, as users flocked to its platform to cash in on soaring cryptocurrency prices ... ( read original story ...)

Transfers of cryptocurrencies worth more than $10,000 (£7,000) are at the centre of a crackdown by Joe Biden ’s administration. A report from the US treasury late last week warned that crypto ... ( read original story ...)

The Biden administration on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for Tokyo's plan to hold the Olympic Games this summer and for U.S. athletes competing there despite a new wave of coronavirus cases and a U. ( read original story ...)

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO's tweet followed a period of significant decline for the cryptocurrency market over the past week or so. ( read original story ...)

A BitPay study found US consumers are increasingly interested in making purchases with cryptos, creating a growth opportunity for payment providers. ( read original story ...)

Takahide Kiuchi, executive economist at Nomura Research Institute and a former Bank of Japan board member, said that the first nationwide state of emergency last spring had caused an estimated 6.4 ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday the government will stick to a pledge to achieve a primary balance surplus in its fiscal blueprint due next month. Suga made the remark at the ... ( read original story ...)

News; Japan's External Assets Hit Record at End of 2020; Japan's External Assets Hit Record at End of 2020. News from Japan. Economy May 25, 2021 ... ( read original story ...)

The latest dip was brought about by China announcing yet another crackdown on crypto mining, though more positive news in the space has helped boost the crypto market. The market rebound at the start ... ( read original story ...)

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he chose Dogecoin over other cryptocurrency tokens because it "has dogs and memes." ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government will create a new fund to offer payouts to low-income households hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday. The government's new fund will be around ... ( read original story ...)

United States citizens have been warned against travelling to Japan a little over eight weeks out from the Olympics. With public opinion in Japan increasingly turning against the Games going ahead as ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Cumulative global cases have reached 167,104,468, according to Johns Hopkins ... ( read original story ...)