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    China tightens scrutiny of offshore listings in certain sectors

    The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced the new rules on the clearances on Monday in a statement that also included an updated annual “Foreign Investment Negative List” that outlines business sectors where foreign direct investment is banned or restricted.The new rules now apply that list to companies issuing shares overseas for the first time, and come as China is tightening scrutiny over offshore share sales.Chinese companies in sectors prohibited for foreign investment “should get clearance from relevant Chinese regulatory bodies, if they seek share sales and list in overseas markets,” the NDRC said, plugging a regulatory loophole. In addition, “foreign investors must not participate in the operation and management of the companies” and their holdings are to be capped at 30%, in line with the rules regulating locally-listed companies. The latest Negative List includes prohibited sectors such as compulsory education institutions, news organizations and rare earth minerals.Additionally, overseas investment in industries ranging from publishing, nuclear power stations and telecom is restricted.Many Chinese companies use a so-called variable interest entity (VIE) structure to float overseas, skirting the foreign investment restrictions in areas such as media and education.The NDRC statement comes just days after China’s securities regulator published draft rules requiring filings by companies seeking offshore listings to ensure they comply with Chinese laws and regulations.Under the new filing system, VIE-structured companies will still be allowed to list as long as they are compliant. “The NDRC statement goes hand in hand with the filing system,” and will likely restrict the use of VIEs, said Zhan Kai, a lawyer at East & Concord Partners.However, China’s Ministry of Commerce framed the new rules as a gesture of policy relaxation. “China is exploring ways to allow companies in sectors off-limits to foreign investment to list overseas under certain conditions, expanding investment channels for foreign investors,” the ministry said in a separate statement. China’s new rules to manage offshore listings will likely ease the regulatory uncertainty that roiled financial markets this year and stalled offshore listings.Investors had previously feared that Beijing could ban all overseas listings using the VIE structure, after Didi Global Inc’s U.S. floatation in July sparked a major regulatory backlash from Chinese officials that were concerned over national security.The NDRC statement also formally scrapped foreign ownership restrictions in carmakers and removed a previous cap limiting the number of vehicle joint ventures a foreign investor can set up in China. More

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    Reasonlabs Warns Crypto-Malware Infection in Spider-Man ‘No Way Home’ Movie

    Cybersecurity firm Reasonlabs, warns crypto users to beware when downloading the new Spider-Man’s ‘No Way Home’ Marvel series from torrent websites.The company mentioned that it has detected a malicious crypto-malware infection in the Spider-Man ‘No Way Home’ movie. Notorious crypto miners are defrauding people through torrent files in Spider-Man ‘No Way Home’ series, according to Reasonlabs.Expanding further, Reasonlabs explained that it spotted Monero miners who were attached to Russian torrent files of the movie. This assures the firm that the malignant files originated from a Russian torrent website. Meanwhile, the Spider-Man: No Way Home series has hit the $1 billion mark at the box office. This makes it the top-grossing movie in 2021. To stop how people are immensely falling victims, Reasonlabs advises that users should always check properly and confirm if their downloaded extension matches the intended file. Alongside this, the company is working extra harder to fish out the ransomware criminal.Continue reading on CoinQuora More

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    Property’s Wants to Bridge the Gap Between Avatar Projects and the Metaverse

    For instance, there are several metaverse projects in which users can acquire virtual land and property, but are left to decide what to do with the property, or how to even get it done by themselves.Certainly, not everyone is a software developer, and so, it is only expected that, beyond the acquisition of property, users are still required to have the technical know-how to make the best use out of their acquisitions. As a result of this, most people end up buying into avatar projects, such as images of a popular character, which often come in the form of headshot digital profile pictures. On the other hand, these avatar projects are homeless, implying that they only reside in their owners’ wallets and might as well remain archived until they are put up for resale. One project that seems to have been able to figure this out is Property’s. The NFT project is on a mission to give avatar projects a home; explained in other words, to migrate Avatar projects from the wallet in which they would ordinarily reside, into the metaverse, a more befitting virtual world.In an exclusive interview with DailyCoin, Konrad Probst, and Joseph Effendy, two of the creators behind the Property’s project, unveiled some of the mystery around the unique NFT solution.To begin with, Property’s, unlike most currently available metaverses, makes the process of developing a virtual estate next to seamless. Technically, users are required to collect several cards, which are otherwise known as the ecosystem’s utility token, “Bricks.” These Bricks, when put together, form virtual property such as housing, real estate, e.t.c, in which users can house their various avatars.According to Probst, the process of collecting these cards can be compared to that of a game of Monopoly.“So we have color coded cards which are meant to be collected. The more you collect of the same color, the closer you are to forming your streets, districts, and cities. Even so, the more cards you are able to collect, the more utility tokens – namely ‘Bricks’ – you will be able to claim,”
    Probst explained.Primarily, Property’s is ladened with the role of creating a real estate for the metaverse in NFT form, while giving homes to metaverse projects. On the other side of this, end users are tasked with collecting NFT cards which are then used to develop their virtual properties, and in doing so, getting rewarded with utility tokens known as ‘Bricks.’‘Bricks’ as they are natively called, fuel the ecosystem and, according to Probst, do not have any monetary value other than for the purchase of avatars in the metaverse.“Token holders can buy new outfits, interiors and exteriors for their homes; participate in games; watch content, or any of the stuff that you can do in a metaverse, either from the activity side, or from a cosmetic standpoint,”
    Probst underlined.The “Peter Property” NarrativeGiven the surge in the number of NFT projects of late, it has become increasingly challenging to build something that stands out. As a result, backing up an NFT project with a genuine narrative is a firm way of setting oneself apart from the crowd. In this way, the creator of Property’s chose to front the NFT project using the tag phrase “Peter Property.” According to Probst, Peter Property is what the project uses to put a story behind the virtual houses that are being sold.As Probst explained, People often fall in love with the design or the architecture of a house, but done on a digital level, it can be difficult to pull at the same emotions people would usually connect with.“We connected a whole storyline where Peter Property is portrayed as the boss of the real estate agency; as such the name becomes the leading figure which the whole narrative revolves around,”
    Konrad explains.Social Media Platforms May Soon Adapt to the MetaverseAccording to Probst, the current social media experience may soon evolve to become more immersive. In his words, “the metaverse is the next natural progression of what a social network is set to become and it is the same for the overall digital experiences.”Probst further noted that the likes of YouTube, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and Instagram are already positioned in such a way that the metaverse can really integrate them into a new setting. Without saying much, Facebook is already treading new ground, having rebranded as Meta, with part of its long term plan being to build a future in which people have more ways to interact and connect in the metaverse.While the world gradually shifts towards the metaverse, Probst believes there are also negative aspects to the innovation. For instance, people may find it difficult to find an appropriate balance between their real life experiences, and those of the metaverse.“So, I believe the metaverse will help people cultivate friendships and new relationships, but people will still need to meet in person, and I think there’s this entire gloomy idea of people being at home and everything being so immersive that they can just remain at home and touch, feel, smell, and taste everything,”
    Probst noted in conclusion.Ultimately, Property’s is approaching the metaverse by turning over all the stones, and more importantly, prioritizing providing a safe space for all users.On The FlipsideWhy You Should Care?Property’s is a blend of metaverse and GameFi, implying that users can anticipate an entirely new experience, one that is vastly different from the majority of currently available projects.EMAIL NEWSLETTERJoin to get the flipside of cryptoUpgrade your inbox and get our DailyCoin editors’ picks 1x a week delivered straight to your inbox.[contact-form-7]
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    Turkish lira slides almost 8% after intervention-driven surge

    ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The lira tumbled almost 8% against the dollar on Monday amid persisting investor concern over Turkey’s monetary policy, having surged more than 50% last week after billions of dollars of state-backed market interventions.The lira was also supported last week by a government move to cover FX losses on certain deposits. It weakened to as low as 11.6 against the greenback on Monday before trimming losses to trade at 11.35 by 0800 GMT. “The main exchange rate resistance is at 11.45 and 12.0, with support levels of 10.57 and 10.25,” QNB Invest said in a daily bulletin.Last week’s rally brought the Turkish currency back to mid-November levels.Last Monday, it had plunged to an all-time low of 18.4 per dollar, after a months-long slide due to fears of spiralling inflation driven by a succession of interest rate cuts engineered by President Tayyip Erdogan. At current levels the currency is still 35% weaker than at the end of last year.Erdogan unveiled late last Monday a scheme under which the Treasury and central bank would reimburse losses on converted lira deposits against foreign currencies, sparking the lira’s biggest intraday rally.Turks did not sell dollars in large quantities on Monday and Tuesday of last week, according to official data that suggested they had played little role in the gains. State interventions, meanwhile, cost the central bank more than $8 billion last week, according to traders’ calculations.The central bank sold $1.35 billion in direct forex interventions on Dec. 2-3 to support the lira when it stood around 13.5 per dollar, according to data.In an interview with broadcaster AHaber, Erdogan said Turks showed confidence in the local currency and deposits increased by 23.8 billion lira after the anti-dollarisation plan announcement.But data from the BDDK banking watchdog showed that after heavy accumulation of dollars the previous week, Turkish individual depositors held $163.7 billion of hard currencies last Tuesday, virtually unchanged from Monday and Friday, when the total was $163.8 billion. The lira got a big boost last week from what traders and economists called backdoor dollar sales by state banks, supported by the central bank. Under pressure from Erdogan, the central bank has slashed its policy rates by 500 basis points to 14% since September, despite inflation that has risen to more than 21%. Price rises are set to exceed 30% next year in part due to the lira depreciation, economists predict.The main BIST 100 stock index in Istanbul rose 2.6% on Monday morning. More

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    Cheems Inu – The New Dog In Town

    Market OverviewThe previous surge in popular meme coins; Shiba Inu and Dogecoin has inspired a lot of developers to pursue projects similar projects that can secure soaring high market caps, among the list of potential upcoming moonshots that can prove their mantle in the ongoing bull run is Cheems Inu, $CINU at its core is a meme coin, but unlike other meme coins, it has a native utility, Cheems Inu is a meme in itself that hopes to inspire others by combining Memes and Crypto to bring both fun and money to masses.The 100x potentialCheems Inu has been listed on multiple coin trackers and was recently found trending on CoinMarketCap- which is the world’s most-referenced price-tracking website for crypto assets in the rapidly growing cryptocurrency space. Its mission is to make crypto discoverable and efficient globally by empowering retail users with unbiased, high quality and accurate information for drawing their own informed conclusions, moreover, Cheems Inu has been listed on multiple centralized exchanges such as Hotbit and BKEX with more to come. BKEX is a digital asset trading platform, also famous as the world’s largest blockchain financial derivatives service platform, BKEX has been online for less than one year, providing services to 1.8 million+ users in 208 countries around the world, BKEX is currently ranked 29th in the world.With almost 40,000 holders and the soaring all-time high market cap of just shy of 67 million, $CINU has proven its mantle as a true moonshot and a possible DOGE and SHIB competitor. Cheems Inu, $CINU was launched at a $4,000 market cap and currently, the project is holding well above $30 million in market capitalization.After being featured by Stockwits and trending multiple days above fortune 500 companies such as General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), $CINU was a trending topic on the largest social network for investors, which attracted a lot of attention and further helped in the upward price trend of Cheems Inu.TokenomicsCheems Inu has a ridiculously large supply of 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 with the supply burning at an exponential rate with our hyperdeflationairy burn function implemented within our tax system where 50% of all buy and sell taxes are burned!$CINU itself is subjected to a buy tax of 10 percent on the transaction and a sell tax of 15% on the transaction; the taxes are allocated to liquidity, marketing, as well as burning. Apart from that, there is a 3 percent limit on the total supply that an individual can hold at any given moment; this generous amount doesn’t hinder large investments like some other tokens.Generation 1 and Generation 2 NFTs Completely sold out (500 of ea)Cheems Inu successfully sold its first batch of NFTs and now has opened the sale for the second batch of the NFTs, Version one of the Cheems NFTs launched on November 23rd, 2021. These original version one Cheems have been minted and completely sold out the selling price for these NFTs was originally sold at 0.3BNB each. They are however available for sale from members of the community on NFTKey. Generation two of the Cheems NFTs was launched on November 30th, 2021. These special pixel versions are currently completely sold out however, still available for purchase on marketplaces. Although more expensive than the originals, keep in mind resale value will also be higher! Some of the original Cheems NFTs are selling for over 15BNB now!Cheems Meme Tools UtilityMerging all crypto meme tokens on a single social media is one of the goals that the team behind this project has in mind, $CINU will be the native token for the meme tools and a burn will be added to the existing tokenomics, providing easy and fun to use media editing tools to create best memes on the blockchain itself. Meme Tools utility is currently in development, these meme tools will be the central hub for everything “meme” in the crypto space. A platform featuring advertising spaces for other meme projects, an upvote system, and a fully functioning swap where all meme tokens can be traded along with live tickers for popular meme tokens, and top gainers and losers section inspired by CoinMarketCap the Cheems social media will be unlike any other platform out there, they also plan to have a memepedia.Even when the crypto market was bleeding in the last few days, Cheems Inu continued its journey to the moon, backed by a very strong community, $CINU has already achieved a milestone of $50 million in market capitalization and continues to move up to set even more such milestones.Social Links Website: https://cheemsinu.net/ Telegram: https://t.me/cheemstokenbsc Twitter (NYSE:TWTR): https://twitter.com/CheemsInuDisclaimer: Any information written in this press release does not constitute investment advice. CoinQuora does not, and will not endorse any information on any company or individual on this page. Readers are encouraged to make their own research and make any actions based on their own findings and not from any content written in this press release. CoinQuora is and will not be responsible for any damage or loss caused directly or indirectly by the use of any content, product, or service mentioned in this press release.Continue reading on CoinQuora More

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    What To Expect From Global Markets In 2022: Growth and the Rise of Small Caps

    Investing.com – The year 2021 may have marked a real turning point in the markets. The coronavirus continues to spread via a new variant, while the threat of high inflation is increasing. Cryptocurrencies are back in the forefront of investors’ minds, commodities have soared and currencies are facing volatility. Equity markets, on the other hand, have continued to rise, or at least the major indices.2022 could mark a new market era: inflation, tightening of policies by central banks, etc. To prepare, Investing.com brings together their journalists and analysts from around the world to give you an overview of what’s to come.During the holiday period, we will be publishing our team’s perspectives on the markets across the board, from currencies to stocks, from cryptocurrencies to commodities, from Europe to Asia to the Americas, and more.In this article, we are going to focus on the experts’ outlook for markets globally in 2022.Starting with economic forecasts, Giacomo Barisone, director of sovereign ratings at Scope Ratings, sees the global economy continuing its uneven recovery. The 2022 projections are solid, with growth of around 4.5%, but down from 5.8% in 2021 and with downside risks.New variants of Covid-19, high inflation and the withdrawal of fiscal and monetary support pose risks to the recovery, Scope Ratings explains. “GDP growth will normalize somewhat next year, but will remain above trend. Scope forecasts growth of 3.5% in the United States and 4.4% in the Eurozone, 3.6% in Japan and 4.6% in the United Kingdom. China will experience growth closer to its long-term trend of 5%,” says Barisone.Focusing on financial markets, Chris Iggo, CIO Core Investments of AXA Investment Managers, points to the new Covid variant as a continued key risk in 2022. “The beginning of the year is going to be complicated,” warns the expert, who describes the current situation as “continuous confusion” with “contradictory signals.””Over the past few months, the conversation in economic circles has revolved around reversing stimulus policies, and 2022 was shaping up to be the year of rate hikes and some fiscal tightening,” Iggo explains. “But the question now is: Should rates be raised to address inflation or should we remain in accommodative mode to offset any further negative impact from Covid?”In this regard, the expert considers that, “the worst-case scenario is that central bankers think they need to crush inflation: real yields would increase and economic growth would respond negatively,” although he adds: “This is a possible outcome, but we have to wait and see a little more about what the data brings.””2021 has been a great year for many companies on the stock market. Without needing to go too far, some of the biggest ones, such as Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) are closing the year near their all-time highs, pulling the market along with it and causing the main benchmark indices to continue their upward trend,” explains Jerónimo Gómez, founder of invierteconsentido.com.This expert warns that, at a technical level, some of these companies are already very extended in the short term. “They are trading at prices well above their 40-week averages, so they could correct over the next few months and remain sideways for some time. If so, these corrections could be reflected in the major indices such as the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ.”On the other hand, Gómez explains that “small cap companies are in a very different situation. Many of them, despite having strong business models, growing revenue, and being solidly profitable, have suffered a lot at a technical level during 2021 and could flourish in the stock market in the coming months. Whoever puts the focus on these companies during 2022 you will be able to find very good opportunities.”Ingrid Kukuljan, Head of Impact & Sustainability and a Lead Portfolio Manager at Federated Hermes, agrees, adding, “Global equity markets have experienced significant volatility in 2021, driven by price inflation, interest rate expectations and commodity shortages.””While these trends can persist and lead to periods where market performance is driven by style factors, we remain focused on companies’ fundamental values and their long-term prospects. Indeed, market volatility can offer us the opportunity to buy into companies exposed to impactful megatrends at attractive valuations,” says Kukuljan.While the main investment bets are on Wall Street and technology companies, analysts believe that European equities can also offer good opportunities as part of a diversified portfolio, especially depending on one’s investing style and risk tolerance.Schroders also wants to take a special look at China. “Asian equities (excluding Japan) had a choppy 2021. Chinese equities, in particular, faced a number of headwinds and their effects are likely to extend into 2022.” explain Robin Parbrook and Toby Hudson, co-head of Asian equity alternative investments and the manager’s Asian ex-Japan equity investment manager, respectively.For these experts, China still has the right ingredients for strong growth in certain segments of the economy. “The problem we see is the increasing prominence of SOEs or state regulation in most of the country’s key sectors. Even those that are not dominated by state-owned enterprises – such as the Internet sector – are forced to accept a much greater degree of state involvement in their operations,” they conclude.Read also: Can Chinese Stocks Rebound in 2022?See our full outlook series here. More