On January 24th, the Paris prosecutor held a press conference on Thursday evening, saying that Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife were kidnapped from their home in central France early Tuesday morning and taken to two different locations by car to be imprisoned. During the kidnapping, the kidnappers contacted another Ledger co-founder and demanded a ransom payment in cryptocurrency, which has been partially paid. This...
According to South Korean media NEWSIS, South Korean prosecutors asked the court on Thursday to extend Yoon's detention.
According to foreign media reports, some netizens posted on the X platform on Thursday, Eastern Time, saying that when Google searches for keywords such as "US Presidents" and "US Presidents in order", the term of former US President Biden is completely ignored. The search results show that Trump is the last two presidents of the United States, while Biden's name is nowhere to be found. The list of presidents before Trump took office in 2016 is correct, including...
US President Donald Trump questioned Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell's interest rate decision on Thursday local time and said he planned to speak with the Fed chairperson "in due course". "I think I know more about interest rates than they do, and I think I certainly know more about interest rates than the people who are primarily responsible for making interest rate decisions," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, apparently referring to Powell. "If I don't agree, I will...
U.S. stocks closed on Thursday, with the Dow initially closing up 0.92%, the S & P 500 up 0.53% to a record high, and the Nasdaq up 0.22%.
Ted Peake, Morgan Stanley's chief executive, said on Thursday that the bank would work with US regulators to see whether it could engage deeply in the cryptocurrency market. "The key for us is whether we, as a highly regulated Financial Institutions Group, can act as traders," Mr. Peake told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We will work with the Treasury and other regulators to see how we can provide this service in a safe way."
According to CNBC, US President Donald Trump will deliver his Davos speech in video format at 11:00 am EST on Thursday (0:00 am Beijing time on Friday).
On January 22nd, according to the AXIOS website, Fox News host Sean Hannity will interview President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday local time. This is Trump's first interview since taking office. The interview will be pre-recorded and will be broadcast on the "Hannity" program starting at 9:00 pm EST on Wednesday (10:00 am Beijing time on Thursday). Fox News confirmed that Trump is expected to discuss his second presidential term, recent executive orders and what to expect in his first 1...
AgRural, an agricultural consultancy, said that as of last Thursday, Brazil's 2024/25 annual soybean harvest rate was 1.7%; the first crop of corn in the central and southern regions was 4.1% and the second crop of corn was 0.3%.
Stock News 1. Air China (00753.HK): December passenger turnover rose by 14.1% year-on-year. 2. China Eastern Airlines (00670.HK): December passenger turnover rose by 17.33% year-on-year. 3. China Southern Airlines (01055.HK): December passenger turnover rose by 10.07% year-on-year. 4. Concord New Energy (00182.HK): Proposed to sell 100% stake in Yilan County Concord for 506 million yuan. 5. Zijin Mining (02899.HK): The company and some owned enterprises in Xinjiang were included in the UFLPA ent...
President-elect Donald Trump will deliver an online speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday afternoon.
According to a report in the Korea Economic Daily on Thursday, Kang Seung-kon, the largest shareholder of Cube Entertainment, is suspected of encouraging real-world friends and colleagues to invest in Nestree, a cryptocurrency owned by South Korean blockchain company Nestree Media Group. Cube reportedly invested 100 million won (approx. $68,376) in Nestree Media Group through a capital increase in March 2022. After news of Cube's investment in the company broke, the price of the Nestree cryptocu...
Bowman, the Fed governor, said on Thursday that she supported last month's rate cut as the "last step" in the Fed's monetary policy adjustment and that caution was needed in the future because of rising inflation risks. "We should also avoid prejudging the future policy of the new administration," Bowman said in remarks to the California Bankers Association.
Ms Britten, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said on Thursday that recent evidence supported a gradual rate cut but that measuring the appropriate pace of easing was tricky. "Recent evidence further supports the removal of policy constraints, which I expect to continue to be phased out over time," said Ms Britten, deputy governor for financial stability and seen as a centrist on the monetary policy committee, in a speech at the University of Edinburgh. She said that at this stage "...