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According to Nikkei, Japan's long-term interest rates reached their highest levels in 30 years on August 18, amid rising U.S. Treasury yields. The surge has reignited concerns over potential yen carry trade unwinding, as investors may exit leveraged positions funded in low-yielding yen. Rising rates in both markets increase borrowing costs for carry trades, prompting liquidation fears and potential volatility in global financial markets.

According to trading data and RBC Capital Markets analysis, on Monday (Aug 17), Tesla stock fell 0.9% to $339.30 while SpaceX surged 4.5% to $146.23, underscoring a significant shift in investor focus. The two companies' stock movements have shown high correlation in recent weeks, moving in the same direction approximately two-thirds of trading days. This correlation reflects growing Wall Street speculation that Tesla and SpaceX could merge, potentially creating an integrated AI ecosystem spanni

According to DefiLlama data, real-world asset (RWA) deposits in DeFi protocols have grown from 12 million dollars three years ago to nearly 4 billion dollars today, representing a 300-fold increase.

According to Saidie Institute, on August 14, a conference on AI advanced substrate materials technology roadmap was held in Beijing, co-hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's key laboratory and the AI Industry Committee. Attending experts identified key bottlenecks including lack of coordination across material-equipment-process-device chains, absent standards, and missing pilot platforms. The shortage of reliability data and unified testing standards creates hesitation

Foreign investors returning to South Korea's stock market are concentrating on so-called S7 stocks last week, with Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, SK Square, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung C&T, and Samsung Life Insurance all seeing net inflows. S7 shares accounted for 76.6% of total net purchases by foreign investors in the kospi market during the period.

According to Yonhapinfomax, Kakao announced today that its open-source lightweight language models Kannada-2 achieved top safety ratings. In comprehensive evaluations using the AssurAI benchmark, Kannada-1.3B scored 0.70, surpassing Google's Gemma (0.68) and Alibaba's Qwen (0.58), while Kannada-3B also scored 0.70, outperforming Gemma (0.66) and Qwen (0.62). The AssurAI framework was jointly developed by Kakao, the Korea Information and Communication Technology Association, and KAIST in November

According to Jung Won-taek, head of Mirae Asset Daewoo's equity division, KOSDAQ has confirmed its bottom and entered a phase of stock differentiation, marking the end of liquidity concentration in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The TIGER KOSDAQ Active ETF, which launched on June 2, gained 20% through mid-August, outpacing the KOSDAQ index's 17% rise and posting the highest return among actively managed KOSDAQ ETFs during the same period. Jung attributed the outperformance to early positionin

According to the Korean Exchange, KOSDAQ surged 10.98% during the first week of August (August 3-7), marking the best weekly performance among major global indices. The index closed at 864.65 on August 14, up 0.38 from the previous trading day, and has gained 34.10% since hitting a recent low of 644.78 on July 30. The rally was driven by improved liquidity following regulatory tightening on single-stock leveraged ETF trading starting July 31, which sharply reduced leverage transaction volumes fr

Nvidia partnered last week with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish an AI chip financing platform, mobilizing over $500 billion to help enterprises fund AI infrastructure and GPU purchases. The partners will package computing power as investable assets for institutional investors. DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeff Gundlach criticized the initiative, comparing it to issuing 30-year asset-backed securities backed by a warehouse of bananas. He questioned whether

According to ChainCatcher, HSG (formerly Sequoia China) is in preliminary discussions with investors to raise at least $1.2 billion for its first dollar-denominated fund after the split, targeting investments in artificial intelligence, healthcare, and consumer sectors. As of January 2025, HSG managed approximately $55 billion in assets and had invested in over 1,700 companies, with at least 180 portfolio firms having gone public.

According to Goldman Sachs, S&P 500 companies' second-quarter earnings per share grew 31% year-over-year as of August 18, with AI infrastructure-related stocks contributing nearly half the increase, Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Ben Snider said in a report. The analysis shows AI profit concentration remains in infrastructure—chips, memory, servers, and power equipment—rather than across companies adopting AI tools. Only 11% of S&P 500 companies quantified productivity improvements from AI in codi

According to Coinglass, 39.05 million USDT transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase on August 18 at 10:37 UTC.

Synchrony, a consumer finance company that issues store cards for Amazon, Walmart, and Lowe's, has announced a partnership with OpenAI to allow consumers to purchase goods directly within ChatGPT using their retail store cards. The collaboration represents one of the first attempts by a U.S. consumer credit institution to integrate lending, payments, and rewards mechanisms into an AI chatbot. Synchrony plans to extend support to general-purpose credit cards, with implementation expected within 6

According to financial investment circles, SK Hynix is pushing to list its U.S. NAND flash memory subsidiary Solidigm on Nasdaq by the end of August 2026. The move aims to raise capital for future competitiveness investments, though market observers remain divided on whether the spinoff represents prudent financing or the dilution of shareholder interests through a partial divestiture. Market attention is now focused on SK Hynix's shareholder return policy expected as early as August 18.

According to Guru Club, Bitcoin broke above $64,000 on August 17, rising 1.83% during the day.

According to Reuters, World Liberty Financial, a Trump family-backed crypto company, partnered with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw. The integration allows WorldClaw users to pay for AI models using USD1, a stablecoin issued by World Liberty and pegged to the US dollar. Of WorldClaw's 90 AI models, 43 originate from Chinese suppliers including Alibaba and Baidu, which the Pentagon lists as Chinese military companies. While using these models domestically is generally legal, the arrangement

According to Guru Club, today (August 18), China's CSI 500 stock index futures (IC) main contract fell below the 8,000-point level, declining 0.85%. Separately, the CSI 1000 stock index futures (IM) main contract slipped below 7,800 points, down 0.75% on the day.

According to Yonhap Infomax, South Korea's reserve money surplus totaled 12.4 trillion won on Aug 18, with the prior day's (Aug 14) reserve money sufficiency surplus at 22.9 trillion won. The overnight call rate stood at 2.776%, with trading volume of 12.3 trillion won.

According to Guru Club, Stripe announced on August 18 that it will expand multi-currency settlement to enterprises across 37 markets by the end of 2026. Businesses will be able to collect and settle revenues in up to 18 different currencies based on their operating locations. The company also introduced a real-time currency exchange feature supporting transfers between 15 currencies with transparent pricing at market-leading rates.

According to Jin10, on August 18, 2026 at 10:30 AM, gold bar prices at major Chinese banks and brands mostly rose compared to the previous day. Ayione Gold Shop and Laomiao Gold saw the largest gains, each rising 10 yuan per gram.