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According to Real Trump Coins' official statement on Saturday, the entity denied launching, promoting, or authorizing the Trump Digital GOLD token that appeared across its online presence before collapsing. The company blamed the promotion on third-party bad actors and said it was working with authorities to investigate. Lookonchain reported the GOLD token exhibited highly concentrated supply, with the developer and newly created wallets controlling 82.45% of total tokens. According to blockchai

According to Korea Credit Finance Association, card loan balances fell 460 billion won between May and July, but cash services and revolving credit increased by 600 billion won during the same period. As of July 31, the combined balance of nine major card issuers' card loans reached 42.796 trillion won, down from 43.253 trillion won in May. Meanwhile, cash service balances rose to 7.025 trillion won from 6.504 trillion won, and revolving credit balances increased to 6.876 trillion won from 6.800

According to Asia Economics, KB Investment, the venture capital arm of KB Financial Group, announced a strategic partnership with AI semiconductor company Rebellion in May. The collaboration integrates Rebellion's domestically developed AI chips into KB Financial's broader infrastructure. KB Investment led Rebellion's Series A funding in 2022 and continued through subsequent rounds alongside KB Securities, establishing a scaled-up structure where early-stage venture investments transition into g

According to LS Securities on August 31, SK Hynix saw its 2027 HBM (high-bandwidth memory) operating profit margin forecast cut to approximately 60% from the previously projected 80%, prompting a target price reduction from 3.3 million won to 2.4 million won. The downgrade reflects intensified competition as Samsung enters the HBM4 market and competitors expand production capabilities. LS Securities analyst Jung Woo-sung noted that while SK Hynix's HBM shipment growth remains solid, supplier div

According to Intel CFO David Zinsner at Deutsche Bank's 2026 Tech Conference, the company's next-generation 14A process shows defect density improvements exceeding its original target and matching the best performance since the 22nm generation. The 14A is on track for risk production in H2 2027 and full-scale production in 2028. Customer sentiment has shifted notably. Intel's internal design teams are already developing products on 14A, while external foundry customers have progressed from revie

According to Bloomberg, ECB executive board member Isabel Schnabel called for the European Central Bank to move its reserves onchain on August 28, citing that central bank money can provide liquidity assurance during financial stress better than private stablecoins. Project Pontes, due to launch in September 2026, will synchronize the ECB's TARGET Services payment infrastructure with distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms used by market participants. The initiative will eventually support

According to Choson Biz Money Move, Appten convertible bond investors achieved over 3.5x returns approximately two years after investment as of August 30. The gains were triggered by the company's recent equity financing, which caused conversion prices to reset downward, enabling investors to profit despite the original CB structure making gains appear impossible when issued.

According to current and former Meta workers, the company is currently testing robots from multiple vendors, including Kinova, ABB, and Watney Robotics, to automate various tasks within its data centers. The robots are being evaluated for power cycling servers, swapping networking cables, and restarting devices remotely. One worker estimates that if successful, the technology could replace up to 80 percent of some workers' physical workloads. Meta is conducting experiments with a Kinova Gen3 rob

According to Newsis, Fed Chair Kevin Powell's hawkish remarks at the Jackson Hole conference on August 28 sparked a sell-off in U.S. semiconductor stocks. Powell signaled potential rate hikes in September if inflation fails to reach the Federal Reserve's 2% target. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plummeted 3.47%, with Nvidia falling 4.57% and Marvell Technology declining 10.28%. CME data showed the probability of a 0.25% rate increase at the September FOMC meeting surged to 57.5% from 35.4%

South Korea's seasonally-adjusted industrial production grew 0.2% month-on-month in July, falling short of the 0.3% forecast and significantly below the prior month's 6.4% expansion.

According to Edaily, on August 31, DB Insurance announced new shareholder return targets as part of its corporate value enhancement plan. The company raised its standalone shareholder payout ratio target from 35% by 2028 to 50% by 2030. Additionally, DB Insurance committed to increasing dividends per share (DPS) by at least 10% annually. The annual shareholder payout ratio increase was expanded from 1.7 percentage points to 4 percentage points, according to Kiwoom Securities analyst An Young-jun

South Korea's industrial production expanded 3.6% year-over-year in July, falling short of the forecasted 4.4% and marking a slowdown from June's 5.8%, signaling a recent deceleration in manufacturing activity.

According to HyperliquidNews, Outcomexyz became the first permissionless HIP-4 to surpass $1 million in trading volume, with $894,000 generated in the past 24 hours.

According to Jin10, the platform will release its Gold ETF holdings report on Monday, August 31, 2026.

According to CNBC reporting Evercore ISI analysis, on August 28, the investment firm raised Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) price target from $315 to $355, a 12.7% increase, citing Agent AI as a powerful catalyst for e-commerce revenue growth. The firm maintained its "Outperform" rating and said the new target implies approximately 40% upside from the previous close. Analyst Mark Mahaney cited Evercore's annual e-commerce survey showing that autonomous shopping agents are delivering material sales lift

According to Bitcoin.com News, Solana (SOL) climbed 46% in August, reaching $110.38 on Aug. 27, its highest level since late January. The token traded near $106 on Aug. 30, with its market valuation near $61 billion, snapping ten consecutive monthly declines. U.S. spot SOL exchange-traded funds have collected $1.34 billion in cumulative net inflows since launching in October 2025, while Charles Schwab announced plans to add SOL access across its platform serving roughly 39 million brokerage acco

According to HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs), the UK's tax authority disclosed its first official statistics on taxable crypto asset gains for the 2024-25 tax year on August 30. A total of 240 people each reported more than 1 million pounds in capital gains, collectively accounting for 717 million pounds, representing over half of the 1.38 billion pounds reported by 16,000 filers. The data showed that among all crypto reporters, approximately 87% were male and 13% were female, with an a

According to CME's Fedwatch Tool, odds for a 25-basis-point federal funds rate hike on September 16 surged to 57% as of August 30, up sharply from just 39.9% on August 21, following Federal Reserve official Christopher Warsh's Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium keynote on August 28. Warsh highlighted persistent inflation as a key concern, noting the Fed's preferred 12-month PCE inflation gauge running at 3.7% and six-month reading at 4.1%, both well above the central bank's 2% target. While

According to LS Securities, on August 31, Samsung Electronics' target price was raised 12.5% to 450,000 won, driven by expectations of improved profitability from higher high-bandwidth memory (HBM) contribution. LS Securities analyst Jung Woo-sung noted that HBM4's shipment mix within Samsung's total HBM shipments surged from approximately 5% in Q1 2026 to about 35% in Q2, while yield rates improved more than 5 percentage points quarter-over-quarter, indicating stronger production maturity compa

According to Bizwatch on August 26, Korean Advanced Materials, a KOSDAQ-listed company, completed a small-scale public offering valued at KRW 2.999 billion this week after exploiting a regulatory threshold change. The company set the offering size just below KRW 3 billion to qualify for expedited small-offering procedures that bypass standard Financial Services Commission review. After the company's share price fell from KRW 2,310 to KRW 1,901 during the offering process (August 24-26), it incre