The thieves beat, bound and robbed the man looking to swap cash for cryptocurrency at the Sonder Battery Park Hotel.
BlackRock’s IBIT Has 1st Outflows as Crypto Fervor Dips
The outflows have dovetailed with a decline in bitcoin’s price. The largest crypto by market cap has dropped 2.8% over the past week, according to cryptocurrency data provider CoinMarketCap. Still, not all signs were pointed downward in the space as the ...
Singapore Diplomat Suspended For Allegedly Filming Unclothed Teen at Public Bath In Japan; Tokyo Police Launches Investigation
Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed the report and said that it would extend its cooperation to the Japanese authorities. ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka Channels Zendaya After ‘Challengers’ Screenwriter Says He Used Her as Inspiration
Naomi Osaka is doing her best Zendaya impression. In a video posted to TikTok on Thursday, May 2, the four-time Grand Slam champion, 26, paid playful homage to Challengers, the hit romantic drama starring Zendaya as a tennis phenom caught in a steamy love ... ( read original story ...)
Dallas to Tokyo flight canceled after Japan Airlines pilot’s booze-fueled 2 am hotel rager
Japan Airlines grounded a flight from Dallas to Tokyo last week after a hotel room noise complaint exposed the captain's excessive drinking the night before its scheduled takeoff. The airline ... ( read original story ...)
Dallas to Tokyo flight grounded after airline said pilot drank too much
A Japan Airlines flight from Dallas to Tokyo was reportedly grounded after the pilot drank too much before the plane was scheduled to take off. ( read original story ...)
Summers Says Currency Interventions Fail Even at Japan’s Scale
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that currency interventions are ineffective at shifting exchange rates, even at the large magnitude that Japan has been thought to have deployed recently. ( read original story ...)
Asia Pacific Commercial Property Investment Leads the World, Spikes 13 Percent
Private student accommodation will be a new investment property asset and attract the attention of the investors," said Oscar Chan, Head of Capital Markets, JLL, HK. "Uncertainty surrounding interest ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s finance minister says yen intervention may be necessary when there are ‘excessive’ moves
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Friday backed currency interventions by his country's policymakers if the yen moved in sharp directions.
Japan’s Suzuki Keeps Traders Guessing Whether or Not Intervened
Japan’s finance minister declined to confirm whether Japan stepped into the market to support the yen with intervention earlier this week, keeping traders guessing.
Yen Rally Takes Pressure Off Japan to Prop Up Battered Currency
To stem losses, the Ministry of Finance probably bought the yen twice this week, though Japan’s top currency official Masato Kanda has declined to comment on whether the authorities had intervened.
URGENT: Japan finance chief sees need for stable forex moves amid weak yen
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Friday stressed the need for foreign exchange rates to move stably by reflecting economic fundamentals, saying that excessive fluctuations should be ...
Vested crypto tokens worth over $3B to be unlocked in May
Sui, Pyth Network, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Aptos are set to release vested crypto tokens in May, according to data tracker Token Unlocks. Vested crypto assets worth over $3.1 billion will be released ...
Analysis-Japan Faces a Tough Tug-Of-War With Yen Bears
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japan appears to have bought some time and respite for ... Hirofumi Suzuki, chief currency strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Tokyo, reckons Japanese ...
Japan’s yen had a roller coaster week amid suspected intervention. Here’s what you need to know
Until the yen hit 160, several analysts had estimated levels between 155 and 160 to be the "line in the sand" for the BOJ and Japan's Ministry of Finance to intervene. The weakness in the yen had ...
Naver says Tokyo’s order to sell off Line ‘highly unusual’
An administrative directive demanding a reduction in control [over a company] is highly unusual,” Naver chief Choi Soo-yeon said during the company’s conference call that day. Related ... ( read original story ...)