Japan's central bank target interest rate is 0.5% until January 24, expected to be 0.50%, and the previous value is 0.25%.
The Bank of Japan raised its target interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.50 per cent from 0.25 per cent as expected, the biggest increase since 2007 and the highest since October 2008. The BoJ has raised rates three times in less than 12 months since it restarted in March last year.
The CEO of crypto exchange Phemex said that reports of suspicious transactions in its hot wallet are under investigation, and stressed that cold wallet assets are safe and users can check the relevant address for themselves.
According to the first financial report, in response to market rumors that ByteDance plans to invest 12 billion US dollars in the development of AI infrastructure, including 40 billion yuan for the purchase of AI chips in 2025 and 6.80 billion US dollars in overseas investment, ByteDance officials denied it. Company officials said that although the company attaches great importance to the development of AI field, the specific budget planning in the rumors is not true.
On January 21st, Vitalik Buterin responded to the community's discussion about ETH holders' participation in the governance of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) by supporting the establishment of an anonymous voting tool similar to an "anoncast" for ETH holders. Through zero-knowledge proof (ZKP), users can verify the amount of ETH they hold and set the frequency of their voices according to the proportion. For example, users who hold N ETH can express their opinions once every (120 million/N) second...
ANZ raised its short-term price target to... but still doesn't think oil prices will escape this range for too long this year, and any move above this level is relatively short-lived.
In response to Jupiter's load issues, co-founder Meow posted on X: "I apologize for the system instability and scaling issues. Over the past few months, the team has been working hard to stabilize and scale all these subsystems, but under extreme market conditions, we obviously still have a lot of work to do. Due to the high volatility in the market earlier, many of our on-chain and off-chain components were affected.
In response to the possible quality risks of some centrally purchased drugs, the National Medical Insurance Administration took the lead in the investigation.
On January 20, the National Medical Insurance Bureau said today (20th) that during the recent "two sessions" in Shanghai, some members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and medical experts reported that some collectively purchased drugs may have quality risks and other issues, and the National Medical Insurance Bureau attaches great importance to them. In order to effectively accept democratic supervision, widely listen to the voices of the clinical front line, give full ...
The lobbyists who have long roamed Congress and federal agencies are taking aim at a new target: a shadowy federal department controlled by Musk. The program, led by Musk, is called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and is designed to advise President-elect Trump on spending cuts and regulatory reform. So far, its members have organized and coordinated in secret meetings several blocks away from the White House. Companies and industry groups have begun organizing and coordinating.....
In response to Trump's launch of Meme Coin TRUMP, SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci said it was bad for the industry and compared it to the level of corruption of former Ugandan President Idi Amin. Meidas Touch co-founder Ben Meiselas believes Trump should focus on more urgent matters. Meanwhile, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy compared the matter to Internet celebrity Haliey Welch's alleged Meme Coin HAWK pumping scheme.
On January 18th, Arthur Hayes said about "Trump issued Meme TRUMP": This is the launch of the political memecoin market. Any politician who is not afraid of public opinion will launch his own memecoin. These token economics are fugazi (note: derogatory, fake stuff), but this "shit" reaches 10 billion dollars.
On January 16, Citi released a report that the Hang Seng Index's forecast for earnings growth per share this year has been reduced to 5.1%, compared with 9.4% in January last year and 6.8% in August last year. MSCI China's earnings growth forecast also fell to 9%, down from 14.2% a year ago. The current valuation of Hong Kong stocks gives the Hang Seng Index a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.8 times the forecast price-to-earnings ratio for the coming year, or 1 times the price-to-book ratio, which ...
The Federal Reserve's Barkin said that inflation is falling back towards its 2% target and can see a possible path for inflation to firm up or continue to progress towards the target. He was encouraged by the unemployment rate in December, and the current job market appears to have stabilized. There is not much evidence to support the claim that the economy is weakening.
In response to the question raised by X users "why the cryptocurrency field has not come forward to acquire TikTok", TRON founder Sun Yuchen replied on the social platform: "Okay, I can propose to acquire TikTok, so everything is solved."