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POLAND – 2024/04/25: In this photo illustration Crypto coins bubbles are displayed on a smartphone … [+] with stock market percentages on the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Bitcoin crossing the $100,000 mark last week was undeniably a historic milestone. Yet, as the leading cryptocurrency celebrated its achievement, many altcoins were already outperforming it, signaling the onset of an altcoin season. Since the start of the year, 20 of the top 50 cryptoassets by market cap have outpaced Bitcoin’s impressive 124% gain. Rising altcoin market caps, growing media interest, and the…

GERMANY – 2024/12/01: In this photo illustration, a Meta Platforms Inc. logo seen displayed on a … [+] monitor. (Photo Illustration by Valera Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images META Platforms stock (NASDAQ: META) is up 5% in a month, with investor optimism around the TikTok ban. A federal appeals court recently upheld a law requiring TikTok’s owner ByteDance to find a new owner for its U.S. operations, outside of China, by January 19, 2025, or face a ban. If TikTok were to be banned in the U.S., it would have been a positive for Meta, with…

Binance confirms itself as the leading crypto-exchange in the 2024 market, recording 40% more inflows compared to the sum of the next 10 exchanges. Not only that, the platform has totaled 21.6 billion dollars in deposits, against the 15.9 billion overall of the other reference exchanges, with a difference of +36%. Binance is the most performing crypto-exchange of 2024: the achievements of the year Binance, the largest crypto-exchange in the world, confirms its position as the market leader with the best performance of 2024. First and foremost, Binance recorded fund inflows from users that are 40% higher than the 10…

整理：Fairy，ChainCatcher Important News: “What important events happened in the past 24 hours” DWF Labs announces the establishment of a $20 million fund to support autonomous AI agent development Cryptocurrency market maker and investment firm DWF Labs announced the establishment of a $20 million special fund focused on the development of Web3 autonomous AI agent solutions. The fund will provide selected projects with up to $100,000 in cloud service credits, as well as strategic consulting and support for blockchain ecosystem integration. DWF Labs Managing Partner Andrei Grachev stated that autonomous AI agents will reshape the technology interaction model between businesses and…

Supporting Our Ongoing Decarbonisation Efforts Towards Net-ZeroWe secured a US$100 M sustainability-linked Islamic Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) from Maybank Singapore. This is the first such facility in the shipping industry in Southeast Asia. The RCF can be used to fund more low-carbon initiatives and decarbonisation efforts including financing LNG dual-fuel tankers and the ongoing development of Ultra-low Emissions Vessels.14 October 2023: AET and Maybank Win Two Awards for Best Sustainability-Linked Financing at The Asset’s Triple A Islamic Finance Awards30 May 2024: AET and Maybank Awarded EuroMoney’s Islamic Finance Deal of the Year – Singapore 2024Toggle cookies policy Close panel Our CookiesWe use…

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Hong Kong CNN  —  Chinese leader Xi Jinping has warned the United States against restarting a trade war, saying there would be “no winners” even as he vowed to defend the country’s economic interests. Xi made the remarks on Tuesday during a meeting with the heads of several global financial institutions, including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, a day after Chinese regulators announced an antitrust investigation into American chip maker Nvidia.…

Hope usually springs eternal for the S&P 500 this time of year. But analysts are already sounding specific warnings for next year. ↑ X NOW PLAYING Beating The Market: How To Find Outperforming Stocks Analysts think 10 stocks in the S&P 500, including Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Tesla (TSLA) and Super Micro Computer (SMCI), will sink 10% or more in the next 12 months, says an Investor’s Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSurge. That would be quite a disappointment — following such a strong year for the S&P 500. Analysts think the average S&P 500…

Raj Sharma, Director at ITOCHU and Corporate M&A expert based in New York. getty C-suites often make strategic decisions to sell assets that no longer fit a company’s future growth strategy and might be distracting the management team from focusing on its core business. It is critical for the management team to prepare for a sale in order to extract the best value for the assets. Here are the top five things to plan for a successful sale of a non-core business unit of a company. 1. Have An Experienced Management Team In Place When a large corporation is looking…

Small business owners tend to lean Republican and the sharp increase in confidence had been widely anticipated by economistsUS small-business confidence surged to the highest level in nearly 3½ years in November amid post-election euphoria.The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) said on Tuesday (Dec 10) its Small Business Optimism Index jumped 8.0 points to 101.7 last month, the highest level since June 2021. Donald Trump won the race for the White House and his Republican Party clinched control of the US Congress in last month’s elections.Small business owners tend to lean Republican, and the sharp increase in confidence had…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.An opera performer turned celebrity make-up artist has just become China’s newest billionaire. On the first day of trade for Mao Geping’s namesake cosmetics company, the first Chinese beauty brand to list in Hong Kong, shares rose as much as 87 per cent. That pop highlights a growing trend among Chinese consumers: a shift from European brands to domestic alternatives.Tuesday’s gains give Skincare and cosmetics firm Mao Geping Cosmetics a market value of more than $3bn. The first day surge is notable…