In an interview with Fox Business on Tuesday, Dimon said he regretted making his earlier comments on the cryptocurrency.
The head of the biggest U.S. bank called bitcoin ""a fraud"" last September and said the digital currency ""won't end well.""
He also said last year that he would not allow JP Morgan traders to trade bitcoin, noting that ""it's against our rules and they are stupid.""
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Dimon said he personally is ""not interested in the subject at all."" But he said blockchain, the open-ledger technology that underpins bitcoins, is real.
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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's major retail sales enterprises enjoyed strong sales last year as the country's stabilizing economy spurred consumption,
the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Thursday.
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earlier, MOC spokesperson Gao Feng told a press briefing.
Sales volume through e-commerce last year surged 26.8 percent year on year, up 3.2 percentage points from 2016, said Gao.
Profitability of retail enterprises improved in 2017 with operating profits of surveyed enterprises rising 8 percent year on year Paul Aguilar World Cup Jersey , up 6.5 percentage points from 2016.
Booming retail sales are behind China's stabilizing economy, which grew 6.9 percent in the first three quarters of 2017.
China is trying to shift its economy toward a growth model driven more by consumer spending, innovation and services while weaning it off over-reliance on
exports and investment.
Gao predicted retail enterprises will see a booming year in 2018, supported by continued industry restructuring and upgrades as well as technological
innovation.
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Heavy snowfall brought both chaos and joy across Europe, with some 15 Orbelin Pineda World Cup Jersey ,000 people stranded overnight in the French Alps while skiers revelled in the fresh powder blanketing slopes.
A winter storm left thousands of Britons without power, sent trucks sliding across icy highways in Germany and caused airport delays and traffic disruptions
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A Swiss national died and 30 people were injured, two of them seriously, in a highway pile-up some 40 kilometres (24 miles) from the Slovenian capital after
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Authorities in the Savoie region of the French Alps said nearly 15,000 people had been housed in emergency shelters, while others were forced to spend the
night in their cars.
"It took us 10 hours to go 130 kilometres," said Kevin Clavel who was stuck in his car with four passengers.
Around 50 British holiday makers bitterly complained of inaction after they were stuck in a French gymnasium for a second night following heavy snowfall in
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- Transport links frozen -
The heavy snows also brought the threat of avalanches, and one person died Sunday after being buried in a torrent of snow in the southern French Alps.
Icy conditions also caused the death of a 27-year-old man whose car slid into a ravine in the Belledonne mountain range.
France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve urged drivers "to exercise the utmost caution" and asked those who could delay their trips to do so.
The snow storm caused disruption in Britain where more than 100,000 homes were left without power and airports suffered delays.
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The country's biggest airport, Frankfurt, cancelled 20 of Sunday's more than 900 scheduled flights and reported widespread delays as runways were cleared and
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The cold snap is expected to dig in across Europe into the New Year, with temperatures in Britain likely to drop as low as minus 10 degrees Celsius (14
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Despite the chaos, the arrival of fresh white powder was a boon to European ski resorts which had been unable to fully open during the key holiday season.
"What joy! It is a gift from the sky," said Gilbert Blanc-Tailleur of the Courchevel ski resort in the French Alps.
"Snow is coming. Winter is finally here!" said the La Bresse ski station in the eastern Vosges mountains on its website.
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