Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA The yen tumbled to 142 against the dollar on Tuesday, its weakest since August 1998, as the Bank of Japan continues to pursue aggressive monetary easing even as other central banks in advanced economies raise rates to fight inflation. […]
Backlink: THE BL China National Railway Group Co., Ltd had a total debt of 6 trillion yuan ($874.79 billion) and a net loss of 80.4 billion yuan ($11.72 billion) in the first half of this year, more than the total losses of the three major airlines on the mainland. The financial report for the first […]
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Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Friday it accidentally exposed but has since removed the confidential financial information of about 120,000 taxpayers. In a letter to Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Treasury Department acting Assistant Secretary for Management Anna Canfield Roth wrote that the IRS “recently identified an inadvertent and […]
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Backlink: THE BL One of China’s richest men is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for money laundering. An exception to the almost absolute anonymity behind cryptocurrency transactions are centralized exchanges, such as Binance. Because of this, in 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice asked Zhao and 12 other company executives and […]
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Backlink: REUTERS Europe’s largest economy and manufacturing powerhouse is among the most vulnerable to any cut-off in energy supplies or rising costs as its industrial sector relies heavily on Russian gas. The Aug. 29 – Sept. 1 Reuters poll showed Germany would see three consecutive quarters of negative growth, surpassing the definition of a […]
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Backlink: REUTERS The dollar edged back from a 20-year high on Friday as traders digested a report that showed the pace of hiring rose slightly more than expected in August, giving the Federal Reserve some wiggle room in how aggressively it hikes interest rates later this month. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 315,000 jobs in […]
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Backlink: THE BL Since the Chinese regime came to power, it has used all measures to implement its policies, and propaganda and disinformation have been great tools. Although in the economic field, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allowed foreign brands to enter the Chinese market, recently, the famous brands Adidas and Nike suffered […]
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Backlink: REUTERS U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, adding to last week’s sharp losses on nagging concerns about the Federal Reserve’s determination to aggressively hike interest rates to fight inflation even as the economy slows. […]
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Backlink: THE BL China has been developing and experimenting with a digital yuan, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with China’s blockchain. China, one of Bitcoin’s biggest opponents, has taken the lessons being learned around the new technology and appropriated it to service its population. A blockchain is a secured public ledger that tracks every […]
Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Spate of profit warnings reveals extent of risk to broader financial system. Troubling news continues to flow from China’s property market as a series of mainland developers report sharp slowdowns and even reversals from last year’s robust first-half profits before the current crisis unfolded. As the government struggles to shore up […]
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Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Authorities pounce on the cases, highlighting the sector’s risk factor. China’s banking regulator announced on Friday that two local banks in the northeastern province of Liaoning have entered bankruptcy procedures. The cases seem relatively modest, but the careful handling by authorities highlights the latent risks carried by the country’s smaller lenders. […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES The National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA) was paraphrased as describing the situation as “the worst crisis the group has ever documented” in Aug. 23 comments to Bloomberg revealing the statistic. Data shared illustrated that the total overdue utility balance across all households piled up to $16 billion, up from $14 billion from January and […]
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Link: THE BL Major banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America are collectively facing more than $1 billion in regulatory fines, after employees used unapproved communication tools, such as private email and messaging apps like WhatsApp. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discovered the violations after probing several banks’ record-keeping practices […]
Link: THE EPOCH TIMES The injunction applies to the 13 states that sued the Biden administration over the moratorium in March 2021, including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Terry Doughty, the U.S. district judge for the Western District of Louisiana, ruled that the White […]
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