The company priced its IPO above its previous target range of $32 to $34 apiece ... while the yen plumbed a fresh four-month low on expectations that policy in Japan will remain accommodative for a ...
Bitcoin Dropped Below $63K — Is BTC Going On Sale As Japan’s Government Pension Fund Asks For Information On It For New Investments?
Bitcoin has seen huge growth in 2024, primarily because of the approval of spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and the upcoming Bitcoin halving. The ETFs have attracted tens of billions in inflows, and ...
Bitcoin’s sudden fall is dragging down crypto stocks like Coinbase — and even Tesla
Tuesday, March 19, was bad for Bitcoin and other crypto-related stocks. A 7% dip in the cryptocurrency’s price led to the fall of other big-name stocks, including Tesla, MicroStrategy, Coinbase, and ...
The Carry Trade Has Been a Winner. Why the Bank of Japan Is Giving It a Handicap.
The Bank of Japan’s decision to raise interest rates for the first time in 17 years could have a big impact on a popular way for investment bankers to make money. It’s called a carry trade. Here’s a ...
Crypto firm Ledger to launch iPod-inspired crypto wallet in May, after months of delays
Pascal Gauthier, CEO of crypto firm Ledger, said that he expects the Ledger Stax to launch in two months' time. The Ledger Stax has been beset by a series of shipment delays over the past year due to ...
The bankrupt crypto firm Genesis will pay the SEC $21 million over its lending program
Genesis Global Capital, a bankrupt crypto lender, has agreed to pay $21 million to settle charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violating securities laws that are related ...
Japan shares higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 0.66%
Investing.com – Japan equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Paper&Pulp, Shipbuilding and Precision Instruments sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in Tokyo, the ...
Japan’s Trillion Dollar Pension Fund Considers Bitcoin For Diversification
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, one of the world's largest pension portfolios, has recently shown interest in exploring bitcoin.
The Bank of Japan just made a historic rate pivot. Here’s what could happen next
The decision Tuesday sparked a sharp selloff in the Japanese yen, sinking to more than 150 yen to the dollar — a level that's previously prompted intervention from Japanese authorities.Japan's central ...
Bank of Japan’s rate hike sets ‘positive backdrop’ for Japan equities
For the first time in 17 years, the Bank of Japan has hiked interest rates, up to a range of 0% to 0.1%. In response, the Yen has begun to slide against the US Dollar. The change to the nation's key ...
Bank of Japan Ends Eight-Year Negative Rates Regime; Bitcoin Slides to $62.7K
The BOJ hiked the benchmark borrowing cost by 10 basis points, abandoning the prolonged negative interest rate policy.Bitcoin extended losses following the rate hike even as the yen remained under ...
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund Explores Investment In Bitcoin
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world's largest pension fund managing over $1.5 trillion in assets, has announced it will explore diversifying a portion of its portfolio into ...
World’s largest pension fund explores bitcoin as an investment
Japan's government pension fund said it is requesting information on "illiquidity assets" such as bitcoin as part of research into potential new investments.
Crypto’s roaring comeback may be harder to undo: podcast
Bitcoin’s price broke its record, nearly two years after crypto exchange FTX went bust. In this Exchange podcast, Andreessen Horowitz’s Arianna Simpson explains why digital assets and the ledgers ...
Dow Holds Steady and Hang Seng Drops, but Nikkei 225 Rally Continues
Nikkei 225 rallies after Bank of Japan decision It would have required a much more hawkish Bank of Japan (BoJ) decision to unsettle the Nikkei 225. As it was, the move out of negative interest rates ...
Japan stocks choppy, yen slides to 150 after BOJ makes landmark policy shift as expected
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Japanese shares were volatile on Tuesday, while the yen fell to near 150 per dollar after the Bank of Japan in a widely expected move ended eight years of negative interest rates ...