Crypto News
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The Bank of Japan fell further behind its global peers on efforts to promote gender equality as it returned to an all male lineup of executive directors after reshuffling its senior positions. Tokiko Shimizu, the central bank’s first and only female director, will be replaced by Kazushige Kamiyama after finishing a four-year term, the BOJ said Monday. All ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried has swapped crypto for a new kind of currency behind bars: bags of rice. The disgraced FTX founder has been jailed at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he waits to be transferred to a federal prison to serve a 25-year sentence. Bankman-Fried was convicted for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy last year. The 32-year-old ...
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When the yield curve flattens and eventually inverts, you worry. But it’s when a recession hits, the Fed cuts rates and the curve steepens that you become s**t scared. Yield curve dynamics represent a crucial macro variable, as they inform us on today’s borrowing conditions and on the market future expectations for growth and inflation. An inverted yield ...
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video Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu be appointed as the secretary of the Russian Security Council. Russia's presidential office made the announcement on Sunday. Putin has been working on a Cabinet reshuffle since he was sworn in for his fifth term on May 7. He has submitted new appointment proposals to the ...
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Bitcoin Suisse, the Swiss-based pioneer in crypto-financial services, is pleased to announce the addition of Starknet (STRK) trading and custody to its platform. This latest development underscores Bitcoin Suisse’s commitment to “providing its clients with access to innovative blockchain projects and investment opportunities.” Starknet is a described as a ...
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Kato is described as a "ruling party heavyweight". He is a former chief cabinet secretary and is seen by some analysts as a candidate to become future prime minister. Kato spoke with Reuters: • Japan is seeing conditions fall in place for the central bank to normalise monetary policy. • Bank of Japan must keep a close eye on economic conditions and ...
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Nothing has been setting the US bond market’s direction this year more than the monthly inflation figures. This week will be no exception. The release of the April consumer-price ...
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So far, 2024 isn’t going quite how it was supposed to for the US economy: Inflation has been higher than expected and household spending seems to have lost some momentum. Those ...
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Not long ago, economists argued in public over basic economic policy issues. Foremost among the debates was the clash over equity and efficiency. Efficiency promotes economic ...
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Kato is described as a "ruling party heavyweight". He is a former chief cabinet secretary and is seen by some analysts as a candidate to become future prime minister. Kato spoke ...
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In the week ending May 4, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 231,000, an increase of 22,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's ...
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Crypto strategist Michaël van de Poppe believes that Ethereum (ETH) is close to witnessing a big trend shift. Van de Poppe tells his 717,600 followers on the social media platform X that he doesn’t expect the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve pending applications for spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the coming weeks. The ...
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Grayscale Investments’s first-quarter revenue was flat after the issuer of the world’s largest cryptocurrency investment vehicle decided to hold the line on fees for its flagship Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. The operator of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust had $156 million in revenue, little changed from the fourth quarter, according to a shareholder letter ...