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According to Citi economist Jin-Wook Kim on November 2, South Korea's current account surplus is set to expand structurally, driven by continued chip export growth and robust merchandise trade, supporting further won appreciation. Citi projects the current account surplus will average 22.8% of GDP from 2026 to 2028, a significant increase from 4.2% during 2016-2025. Citi forecasts the USD-KRW exchange rate will decline to 1,300 within three months and further to 1,270 over the next 6-12 months.

According to MSX announcement, the platform launched AMGEN (Amgen Inc.) stock token trading on November 2, 2026 (UTC+8), opening both spot and futures markets.

According to Odaily, BTCPay Server's incident response investigation identified attack vectors targeting version 2.4.1 (released July 23, 2026) or earlier instances. The team reported no credible incidents of hot wallet theft among users running the latest 2.4.7 version. The project recommends all u

According to Commerzbank economist Dr. Christoph Waltz, Democrats are likely to secure control of both the U.S. House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. Trump's approval rating stands at 38%, with 60% disapproving, leaving Republicans vulnerable. Betting markets reflect over 90%

According to Yonhapinfomax, the Korean won weakened to 1,341.10 against the US dollar on November 2, up 6.80 won from the previous trading day's close of 1,334.30 won, as of 11:15 a.m. in Seoul's foreign exchange market. The KOSPI equity index rose 1.5% or more, with the currency and stock market

According to Seoul bond market data, South Korea's government bond yields rose on November 2 as of 11:04 a.m., with the 3-year benchmark yield up 3.4bp to 3.744% and the 10-year yield gaining 4.2bp to 4.047%. The 30-year yield increased 4.8bp to 4.160%. Foreign investors countered weakness in the

According to ChainCatcher, Solana's p-ATA improvement proposal has been merged and will replace the existing associated token account program to lower compute unit consumption.

According to Japan Electric Power Exchange, Tokyo and Chubu spot electricity prices reached 36.11 yen and 36.29 yen per kilowatt-hour on Sunday, marking the highest levels since September 2022, with increases of 1.1% and 7.2% respectively. Liquefied natural gas spot prices surged to

According to Guru Club, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong released its first AI readiness survey on November 2, finding that 30% of surveyed institutions have already adopted agentic AI. The survey results will inform the SFC's development of AI regulatory guidelines.

Tencent Cloud announced on November 2 a strategic partnership with OmniOps, a Saudi Arabia-based AI infrastructure company, to support enterprise AI development and deployment. Under the agreement, Tencent Cloud will provide cloud infrastructure and technical expertise, while OmniOps will contribute model inference technology and local deployment capabilities for customers running AI models.

According to a post by Noah Shinn on X, Instinct, a no-app AI agent accessible through WhatsApp, experienced an outage on Nov 2 morning due to a payment processing configuration issue with its service provider. The service interruption prevented

According to Ember Alert, the Pando Rings hacker address recently transferred 4000 ETH to Tornado Cash. The address had previously acquired 7548 ETH in total.

According to ChainCatcher, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Chief Executive Leung Fung-yee announced at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026 that the SFC plans to establish a cybersecurity framework for licensed institutions and impose stricter requirements on higher-risk firms to enhance their resilience against AI-driven cyber threats.

According to Yonhap News, South Korea and Japan's vice foreign ministers will hold talks on Monday. The meeting is expected to cover bilateral relations as well as regional and global affairs, according to an official.

According to the Bank of Japan, the central bank recently announced that inflation has reached its long-sought target for the first time in 13 years. However, the Japanese yen gained only 0.4% following the announcement and subsequently retreated, signaling a muted market response to the policy

According to Jin10, emerging market currencies declined 0.2%, hitting a one-month low on November 2, amid ongoing Middle East tensions and ahead of U.S. economic data releases later this week.
South Korea's won weakened as foreign capital outflows from equities offset export gains. The

According to Bernstein research published on November 2, the firm warned that a wave of Neocloud (AI compute cloud) companies will face bankruptcy within 1-3 years due to a structural mismatch in their rental contracts. Data center legal expert Jeffrey Moerdler highlighted the core issue: Neocloud f

According to Autodesk, the company and JTC Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding on November 2 to explore AI-enabled digital transformation across Singapore's built environment. The collaboration will focus on connected data, AI-enabled project delivery, carbon analysis, and software

According to Ukrainian and European officials, the United States is supporting the restoration of Russian natural gas exports to Europe via pipelines transiting Ukraine as part of ongoing negotiations for an energy ceasefire before winter, as reported by CCTV

According to a Reuters survey cited by Jin10, Deutsche Bank is the sole economist among 32 predicting the Reserve Bank of Australia will hold rates steady on Tuesday, while the other 31 expect a 25 basis point hike to 4.85%.