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German Economy Will Hardly Grow in 2025, Bundesbank Says

(Bloomberg) -- Germany’s economy will hardly grow in 2025 after shrinking again this year, according to fresh forecasts from Bundesbank.Most Read from BloombergHong Kong's Expat Party Hub Reshaped by Chinese InfluxBrace for a Nationwide Shuffle of Corporate HeadquartersCity Hall Is HiringAmerican Institute of Architects CEO ResignsHow California Sees the World, and ItselfGross domestic product will fall by 0.2% in 2024, it said Friday — slashing a June prediction for 0.3% growth. Output will exp

Chinese fund touts offshore crypto exposure in Alipay ad amid bitcoin boom

A Chinese fund manager has touted its fund's cryptocurrency exposure in an effort to draw investors amid a historic bitcoin boom, even as Beijing maintains a hostile stance towards the digital assets. A fund advertisement that read "Cryptocurrencies soaring, start investing with 10 yuan" was spotted on Alipay, Chinese fintech giant Ant Group's mobile wallet app, crypto-focused outlet Wu Blockchain reported on Thursday. The fund, a Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) fund operated by

Musk says US is demanding he pay penalty over disclosures of his Twitter stock purchases

Elon Musk says the Securities and Exchange Commission wants him to pay a penalty or face charges involving what he disclosed — or failed to disclose — about his purchases of Twitter stock before he bought the social media platform in 2022. In a letter posted by Musk on the platform now called X, his lawyer Alex Spiro tells the outgoing SEC chairman, Gary Gensler, that the commission's demand for a monetary payment is a “misguided scheme” that won't intimidate Musk. The letter also alleges that the commission reopened an investigation this week into Neuralink, Musk's computer-to-human brain interface company.