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The Australian dollar (AUD/USD) reached 0.71 today, gaining 0.25% intraday.

According to Financial Supervisory Service filings reported by Yonhap Infomax on August 17, Kumho E&C reported H1 2026 operating profit of 28.7 billion won, up 30.6% year-over-year, with operating margin improving to 3.0% on sales of 965.1 billion won. The South Korean construction company also reduced debt to 128.6 billion won from 157.1 billion won at end-2025. However, underlying liquidity metrics deteriorated. Operating cash flow swung to negative 6.4 billion won, while cash and equivalents

India's 5-year government bond yields widened by 8 basis points recently following the Reserve Bank of India's announcement to prematurely close its special dollar deposit facility for overseas residents.

According to OpenAI Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux, ChatGPT account users can now manually set the context window for GPT-5.6 Sol to 1 million tokens. Previously, this configuration was limited to API Key users only. The 1 million tokens refer to the context budget allocated by Codex to the model, not an expansion of GPT-5.6 Sol itself. The model supports up to 1.05 million tokens maximum; Codex had defaulted to using a lower portion, currently around 272,000 tokens.

According to ZhiTong Finance APP, the Hang Seng Index rose 1.61%, or 405 points, to 25,521 on August 17 in early morning trading, while the Hang Seng Tech Index gained 2.01%. Morning turnover reached 118.2 billion Hong Kong dollars. Storage-related stocks led gains as revaluation momentum strengthened, with SK's leadership warning of a potential severe memory shortage next year. Multiple semiconductor and technology-related sectors also advanced significantly during the session.

According to ARK's Q2 2026 holdings data, Cathie Wood's ARK Invest significantly shifted its portfolio, investing approximately $443 million in SpaceX while cutting semiconductor holdings. NVIDIA holdings fell 17.47%, AMD dropped 5%, and TSMC declined 16.15%. SpaceX became a top 10 holding at 2.87% of total portfolio. ARK's total holdings value reached $15.456 billion in Q2, up 20.2% from Q1, with the fund delivering 29.06% quarterly returns. The reallocation reflects ARK's strategy pivot from A

According to 21st Century Business Herald, Yang Meng, Global Commercial President of Ding Talk, will step down from his position and join Ant Group.

China's 10-year sovereign bond yield slides to 1.68% on Aug 17, down 0.1 basis point from the previous close. The intraday low of 1.677% marks the lowest level since July 2025.

According to Maria Llerena, head of financial research at Domini Impact Investments, the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield reached its highest level since 2001 when it was sold at auction on Aug. 13. Long-end yields remain near levels last seen in 2007, adding pressure on technology stocks whose valuations depend heavily on future earnings discounted to present value. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft collectively plan capital expenditures of $740 billion in 2026 and an estimated $1 trillion in 20

According to SoSoValue data, XRP spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $2.25 million during the trading week ending August 14 (U.S. Eastern Time). Bitwise ETF XRP led the gains with weekly net inflows of $2.25 million. As of press time, the total assets under management for XRP spot ETFs reached $933 million, representing 1.49% of XRP's total market capitalization.

The New Taiwan Dollar strengthened to 31.874 against the U.S. Dollar, marking its highest level since July 2.

According to Hugging Face, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B topped the global large language model trending leaderboard on August 17, with over 1 million downloads in just two days. The latest Hugging Face report indicates that Alibaba's Qwen has become a foundational model for the global open-source community.

According to Al Jazeera, Israeli occupation forces launched two airstrikes on Tuffah area in eastern Gaza today, causing multiple people to be injured.

According to market sources, KiwiMoore, a domestic Chinese chip design company, has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO with a target valuation of approximately $2 billion (about 156 billion Hong Kong dollars), according to Zhitong Finance. China Citic Securities and Agricultural Bank International are joint sponsors of the listing. The company completed a 700 million yuan financing round in July with a post-investment valuation of 8 billion yuan, with investors including China's state-owne

According to the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing survey released on August 17, in the week of August 10-14, 2026, 32 of 50 tracked major commodities (64%) rose in price, 15 (30%) fell, and 3 (6%) held steady. By sector, non-ferrous metals gained 1.0%, chemicals up 0.6%, energy up 0.5%, and agricultural products up 0.1%. Minerals declined 0.9%, while ferrous metals edged down 0.02%. Among individual commodities, lithium carbonate led gainers with a 5.0% rise, followed by ethylene glyco

According to Jin10, offshore Chinese Yuan Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate (CNH HIBOR) on August 17 showed mixed movement across main tenors. Overnight HIBOR declined 1 basis point to 1.36833%, marking the lowest level since January 2. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Monetary Authority's 30 billion yuan one-day repurchase agreement facility liquidity has been drawn over 30%.

According to SoSoValue data, Hyperliquid (HYPE) spot ETFs saw net inflows of $2.7422 million during the trading week ended August 14. Bitwise ETF BHYP led with $1.5574 million in weekly inflows, bringing its cumulative net inflows to $112 million, while Grayscale ETF HYPG recorded $1.1848 million in weekly inflows with cumulative net inflows reaching $128 million. Total assets under management for HYPE spot ETFs reached $266 million, with cumulative historical net inflows totaling $284 million.

According to Deutsche Bank's August 13 report, gold is in its fifth major bull phase since 1979, with a fair value range of $4,700–$5,100 per ounce. The bank's base model shows current fair value at approximately $4,700, implying around 20% upside from current levels. The rally, running for about 24 months since August 2024, is driven by four overlapping factors: central bank gold purchases, de-dollarization trends, geopolitical risks, and interest rate cut expectations. Unlike previous bull pha

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said today that some AI company CEOs deliberately amplify doomsday narratives as a marketing strategy, as fear itself can make products appear more powerful. Vance does not believe AI will cause widespread unemployment and said current data shows no evidence of this. He suggested the more likely outcome is increased productivity and changes to certain job roles, rather than mass job losses.

According to SoSoValue data, Solana spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $10.26 million during last week's trading days (Aug 10-14). Bitwise's BSOL led with $8.83 million in weekly inflows, bringing its total historical inflows to $900 million. Morgan Stanley's MSOL followed with $1.43 million in weekly inflows, accumulating $22.29 million in total.