Users of decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket are betting that Trump will pardon Sam Bankman-Fried within 100 days of taking office. In November 2023, Bankman-Fried was charged with seven criminal counts, including wire fraud, and later sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison for his role in the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. On Polymarket, he has a 4% chance of receiving a presidential pardon.
Trump will be sworn in at 12 noon Eastern Time on the 20th (1 am Beijing time on the 21st) under the auspices of Chief Justice Roberts of the United States, and Trump will then deliver an inaugural address. The three richest Americans, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, attended the same frame. Two sources said that Trump is preparing to issue a large number of executive orders and directives on his first day in office, with a total of more than 100 items likely to be involved.
On January 19, after the TikTok announced that it would suspend service in the United States, it was found that the Jianying overseas version CapCut, also owned by ByteDance, was also suspended. CapCut official announcement said: "We regret to inform you that a law prohibiting the use of CapCut in the United States will take effect on January 19, which will force us to temporarily unable to provide services. We are working to resume service in the United States as soon as possible, thank you for...
On January 17, the Central Political and Legal Committee Chang An Jian issued a document on the WeChat official account, saying that the 2025 Central Political and Legal Work Conference pointed out that the Ministry of Justice should take the initiative to study and propose legislative proposals, and study new issues such as unmanned driving, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, virtual currency, and data ownership. It is reported that Chang'an Jian of the Central Political and Legal C...
January 15th news, Qichacha APP shows that recently, Wang Jianlin added 1 equity pledge information, the pledged equity target company is Dalian Wanda Group Inc., Ltd., the pledgee is Zhuhai Wanying Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., the amount of pledged equity is 2.40 million shares. Qichacha information shows that Dalian Wanda Group Inc., Ltd. was established in September 1992, the legal representative is Wang Jianlin, the registered capital 1 billion RMB, business scope including commercial re...
Luo Zhuojian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a consulting expert of the Ministry of Finance, issued a document calling for the active development of stablecoins to protect the advantages of Hong Kong's financial center. He pointed out that Hong Kong can cooperate with Financial Institution Groups in other regions in the application of stablecoins to explore its potential in international settlement and cross-border application mod...
On January 13, Li Jiachao, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said at the 18th Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong that Hong Kong will explore new growth areas, including the establishment of an international gold trading center, providing world-class gold storage facilities, adding insurance, testing and certification, logistics and other supporting services, and eventually forming a complete gold trading center and related industrial chain to provide investors w...
South Korea's National Assembly failed to pass the "Civil Unrest Special Prosecution Law" and the "Kim Jianchi Special Prosecution Law".
Class A share pension concept was initially active, and Yuexin Health rose by more than 8%. Aojiahua, Reliable Shares, Jiahe Meikang, Innovative Medical, Xiangyu Medical, etc. followed suit. On the news, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform and Development of Elderly Care Services".
Sichuan Neijiang City Public Security Bureau held a press briefing to announce that the Neijiang police recently cracked a case of illegally obtaining computer system data supervised by the Ministry of Public Security and arrested 5 people. It is reported that the gang are all high-end "hackers" engaged in network technology. One of them is still a staff member of a large cyber security company. He overstepped his authority to obtain personal information of citizens by writing a hacking program....
The official account of the Fujian High Court announced a typical case of cracking down on the new type of illegal and criminal governance of telecommunications networks, among which the trial organs of Longyan City tried a large cross-border telecommunications network fraud case according to law, and the public security organs seized the cash involved and a large number of houses, cars, gold, precious watches, virtual currencies, etc. worth nearly 200 million yuan; the trial organs have decided...
On December 31st, local time on December 31st, South Korean Acting President Choi Sang-mu exercised veto power over the "Civil Unrest Special Prosecutor Law" and the "Kim Jian-sik Special Prosecutor Law".
The State Administration of Market Supervision has implemented listing supervision on the investigation and rectification of the false standard content of cashmere sweaters in Zhejiang and Inner Mongolia.
The Ministry of Finance has decided to carry out pilot work in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Fujian, Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zones and Hainan Free Trade Port to promote the resolution of the problem of abnormal low prices in government procurement. This notice shall come into force on February 1, 2025.
Small Commodity City rose, rising more than 3% to 14.38 yuan; on the news, Zhejiang Province held a press conference to promote "Yiwu City Deepens Comprehensive Reform of International Trade", and the meeting plans to land the first order of import positive lists of toys and other commodities tomorrow.