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According to the Housing Industry Research Institute, Seoul's apartment occupancy rate declined to 86.4% in June, down 4.6 percentage points from May. The capital region overall fell to 83.0%, with Incheon and Gyeonggi registering 81.4%. The institute attributed the decline to insufficient improvement in actual move-in conditions due to existing property sales delays and mortgage loan issues. Outlook for July showed marked improvement. Seoul's move-in prospect index rose to 118.7, up 16 points f

According to Yonhap Infomax, South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy brought formal complaints to the World Trade Organization's Technical Barriers to Trade Committee on July 9 regarding trade barriers affecting semiconductor, chemical, battery, display, and cosmetics exports. The government raised concerns over the EU's packaging waste regulations, single-use plastics directive, and PFOA restrictions, alongside eight additional overseas technical regulations including Indonesia's t

BNB Chain announced plans to launch a new Layer 1 blockchain in early 2027 specifically designed for agentic trading, targeting transaction pre-confirmation times below 50 milliseconds and transaction throughput exceeding 100,000 TPS with sub-second finality. The chain will eliminate public mempools to reduce front-running risks, route transactions directly to block producers via TxStream, and rotate block producers every 200 milliseconds. PriorityLane reserves block space for oracles, liquidati

According to Seoul Economic Daily, Samsung Electronics reported Q2 operating profit of 89.4 trillion won on July 8, beating market expectations and overtaking Nvidia in market capitalization, but the stock fell 6.25% to 277,500 won due to divergent analyst views. KB Securities and IBK Investment Securities raised price targets to 600,000 won and 460,000 won respectively, citing expanded AI memory demand and prolonged supply constraints. However, Kiwoom Securities cut its target to 390,000 won, c

According to China Central Meteorological Administration, Typhoon Bawei is expected to brush or make landfall in the northern Taiwan area on the morning of July 11, then approach central Fujian to southern Zhejiang. The typhoon is forecast to make landfall along the coast between Fuqing, Fujian and Wenling, Zhejiang on the evening of July 11.

According to Reuters and The Warzone, NATO announced on July 7 at its defense industrial forum in Ankara, Turkey, that it would adopt Sweden's Saab Global Eye as its next-generation airborne early warning and control system. The decision will replace some of the alliance's aging Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft. Boeing's E-7 Wedgetail was previously the leading candidate; however, NATO abandoned that plan last year. NATO emphasized the decision represents transatlantic industrial cooperation, with con

According to Guru Club, the Container Shipping Index (Europe line) main contract fell 8% intraday on July 9, now trading at 2,342.0 points.

According to Financial News reports on July 9, Hyundai Motor Group's target price was raised from 740,000 to 840,000 Korean won. Additionally, APR (Hyundai Motor affiliate) reported record-high quarterly sales in the U.S. market, marking its strongest quarter to date in that region.

According to Yonhap Infomax, South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung attended a Korea-Mongolia Business Forum in Ulaanbaatar on July 9 (local time) alongside Mongolia's President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh. The forum, jointly hosted by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Mongolia's Foreign Ministry, discussed economic cooperation across critical minerals, infrastructure, distribution, and digital sectors. Approximately 180 Korean business representatives from firms including LS, PO

On July 8, professional ETF terminology including NAV, premium-discount ratios, liquidity providers, and leveraged and covered call ETF strategies appeared in questions 14-17 of South Korea's national high school college entrance mock examination for 2026. Question 15, which asked students to apply different ETF operational strategies to real investment scenarios, recorded the highest error rate at 73.9%, while question 16, which required analyzing ETF arbitrage opportunities based on price-iNAV

According to NCS, the Singapore-based technology services company recently expanded its Sunshine.AI suite with tools for building AI agents and no-code application development. The enhanced platform targets enterprise AI deployments with built-in governance, safety, and data controls. The expansion builds on the original suite launched in July 2025 as part of a S$130 million (US$101 million) three-year AI initiative. NCS announced partnerships with IHH Healthcare, NHG Health, Ngee Ann Polytechni

According to ChainCatcher, citing Coinglass data, whales on Hyperliquid currently hold $5.059 billion in open positions, with a long-to-short ratio of 0.97. Long positions account for $2.485 billion while short positions stand at $2.574 billion. Wale address 0x082e..88 opened a 5x leveraged long position in HYPE at $38.6755, with unrealized gains currently at $39.5 million.

According to South Korea's Finance Ministry, the country raised 1.7 billion euros in foreign exchange stabilization bonds today (July 9) at historic low spreads. The issuance marks a benchmark for the nation's external debt management.

According to Hyundai Card, on July 9, the company and Hyundai Motor completed a proof-of-concept for stablecoin-based cross-border remittance between the automaker's U.S. and Mexico subsidiaries. The first phase involved transferring $20,000 in USDT (Tether) from Hyundai Motor America to Hyundai Motor Mexico, with the entire process including verification completed in an average of 7 minutes—significantly faster than traditional bank transfers, which typically take 3 to 4 hours or longer. The Po

According to JPMorgan Chase, Broadcom received a maintained 'buy' rating on July 8, as the bank confirmed key product milestones from an investor meeting with Broadcom CEO H.C. Chen. Google's TPU v9 is proceeding on schedule for 2028 production, while Broadcom's partnership with Apple has been extended through 2031 with new AI accelerator projects added. OpenAI's next-generation XPU is expected to tape out soon. JPMorgan also noted that Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 switching chips are sold out, undersc

According to Odaily, a federal court rejected an emergency challenge to Tennessee's cryptocurrency ATM ban on July 1, 2026. Public Chapter 766 remains enforceable during ongoing constitutional litigation filed by CoinFlip and Private IT Corporation. Under the law, knowingly installing, permitting, placing, or operating a virtual currency self-service terminal in Tennessee constitutes a Class A felony. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti stated that crypto ATMs are tools used by fraudste

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored by PANews, a smart money address closed 8,400 SKHX positions at $1,510.3 on July 9 at 08:22 UTC, booking a small loss of $344. Including funding fees, the total loss reached $97,000, though this significantly narrowed the account's previous peak floating loss of $1.64 million. The address continues holding 10,358 MU tokens (valued at approximately $9.86 million at average entry price $1,014.9) with a floating loss of $656,000.

According to governance.aave.com, Aave DAO approved native GHO stablecoin deployment on Arbitrum on July 8. The move aims to deepen stablecoin liquidity in the Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem and expand GHO's use cases beyond its initial launch markets. Arbitrum's active DeFi environment is expected to provide meaningful adoption pathways for GHO lending and liquidity provisions.

According to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited disclosures, Shenuo Medical (688108.SH), a medical device maker already listed on Shanghai's STAR Market since October 2019, recently submitted its Hong Kong main board IPO application with China Bohai Bank International as sole sponsor. The company aims to establish an A+H dual-listing structure to expand financing channels and boost international market presence. As of July 7, 2026, its A-share market value stands at approximately 7.4 billi

According to Reuters, Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group is developing an open-weight language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, expected for release in the third quarter of 2026. If released, it would surpass China's current largest models, including Meituan's LongCat-2.0 and DeepSeek's V4-Pro, both at 1.6 trillion parameters, and exceed publicly disclosed open-weight models such as Llama 3.1 405B.