Bitcoin Could Reach $300,000 in 2025, HashKey Survey Predicts Amid Growing Institutional Interest Bitcoin’s price has attracted significant attention, with many analysts predicting substantial growth in 2025. A survey by HashKey Group, based in Hong Kong, revealed that 50% of respondents expect Bitcoin to surpass $300,000 this year, driven by increasing institutional adoption. Bitcoin recently […]

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates next week barring any market shocks when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, and maintain a pledge to keep pushing up borrowing costs if the economy continues to recover, said five sources familiar with its thinking. However, the central bank

Key Takeaways The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, heading into a three-day weekend on a high note as prospects rebounded for additional interest-rate cuts in 2025. Intel shares took off following reports that the semiconductor giant could be an acquisition target. Freight shipper J.B. Hunt posted lower-than-expected sales and profits for

In an aerial view, a customer enters a Walgreens store on Jan.4, 2024 in San Pablo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Department of Justice said Friday that it sued pharmacy giant Walgreens for allegedly dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions. The DOJ said that Walgreens from August 2012 until the present “knowingly” filled those

Tesla (TSLA 3.06%) stock saw significant gains Friday thanks to multiple catalysts. The company’s share price closed out the daily session up 3.1% and had been up as much as 6.3% earlier in trading. The gains took place in conjunction with a 1% gain for the S&P 500 index and a 1.5% gain for the

BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s economy ended 2024 on better footing than expected helped by a flurry of stimulus measures, although the threat of a new trade war with the United States and weak domestic demand could hurt confidence in a broader recovery this year. For the full-year 2024, the world’s second-largest economy grew 5.0%, meeting the

U.S. entrepreneurs formed a record 4.38 million new businesses in 2020, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. That total has been topped every year since, including in just the first 11 months of 2024. In the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, urgent factors like job losses helped spur business

WuXi AppTec’s leadership played down concerns about reduced demand for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) manufacturing after leading obesity player Eli Lilly released lower-than-expected revenue projections. On 15 January at the 43rd JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, WuXi AppTec Co-CEO Minzhang Chen told the audience that if global demand for GLP-1 drugs is lower, then WuXi’s

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million over errors tied to consumer credit reports, alleging the company failed to conduct proper investigations of disputed information, the federal watchdog announced Friday. Equifax is one of three major credit reporting agencies in the U.S., a group that also includes Experian

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