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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) closed at $10.76 on 14 August 2026, positioned between analyst price targets ranging from $8.50 to $21.00 as the market weighs accelerating AI infrastructure demand against rising memory-chip costs. The company reported Q2 2026 net sales of €4.82bn, up 8%, with AI & Cloud order

Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) closed at $277.68 on 14 August 2026, carrying a $76.11bn market capitalization that trades at 56.0 times trailing twelve-month sales—a figure that obscures the company's 506.9% revenue growth over that period. The stock's valuation controversy centers on a forward-looking

Fermi (NASDAQ: FRMI) signed a 15-year, approximately $6.5 billion binding lease with TensorWave on 10 August 2026, converting 222 MW of its Project Matador data centre campus into contracted revenue. The agreement—announced three days before SanDisk disclosed eight customers under long-term contract

Peter Thiel's investment fund Thiel Macro purchased approximately 1% of Vista Energy, an Argentine oil producer, according to a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated Aug. 14. The fund paid roughly $76 million for about 1.2 million American depositary shares,

Roman Storm, founder of Tornado Cash, called out Google and OpenAI as enablers following his August 2025 conviction for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. Storm argued that the U.S. Department of Justice applied flawed logic in his case, pointing to North Korean IT

Zijin Gold International (stock code 02259) announced interim results for the six months ending June, reporting shareholder profit of USD 1.451 billion, up 1.79 times year-on-year, with earnings per share of USD 0.54 and the company's first interim dividend since listing of HKD 1.5 per share. The pr

Ethereum developers are currently reviewing 66 proposals as part of scoping the Hegotá upgrade, the network's next major protocol enhancement. The review process aims to narrow down proposals for inclusion, with several focused on integrating privacy capabilities into the Ethereum protocol. FOCIL cu

South Korean authorities announced plans to expand mortgage lending capacity by up to 7.5 trillion won through five major banks after lenders suspended loan applications due to exceeding annual growth targets. The five major banks surpassed their household loan annual growth targets set with

The European Central Bank surveyed 8,205 companies across eurozone countries to assess payment method adoption, finding cryptocurrency and stablecoin acceptance at 0.2% for online purchases and 1% at physical points of sale. The survey aimed to determine cash's standing among modern payment

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban stated on August 15 that chips as an asset class will become the new crypto, drawing a comparison based on scarcity and surging demand for advanced processors. The remark comes weeks before CME Group launches the first regulated futures contracts on computing power, s

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor published a one-year performance chart on Sunday showing that Strategy Preferred Stock STRC outpaced Bitcoin. STRC gained 9% while Bitcoin fell 47% over the period from August 14, 2025, through August 14, 2026. The comparison measured four Strategy credit instruments a

Semiconductor exchange-traded funds in South Korea swept all top 10 weekly return positions during May 10-14, led by SOL Semiconductor Front-End ETF's 20.53% gain. The rally occurred as capital equipment investment expectations spread to front-end equipment stocks while the KOSPI recovered toward th

Barings Asset Management introduced the Barings K-Growth Leaders Fund as an investment option concentrating on South Korea's core growth industries. As of the 14th, the fund recorded a year-to-date return of 75.51%, according to financial data provider FnGuide. The fund targets sectors including

Foreign investors net purchased 8.07 trillion won in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix stocks over four trading days from the 11th to the 14th, according to Korea Exchange data released on the 16th. The buying spree marks a reversal from the previous trend, during which foreign investors net

South Korea's equity-linked securities market recorded 3.5266 trillion won in issuance last month, marking the largest monthly volume since April 2023, according to Korea Securities Depository data released on the 16th. The resurgence follows the 2024 Hong Kong H-index crisis that triggered

South Korea's National Pension Service significantly reshuffled its domestic stock holdings between the end of 2024 and the end of 2025. SK Square, which climbed to 4th place in market capitalization, jumped from 40th to 7th position in NPS's portfolio valuation rankings during this period. The

Multiple South Korean semiconductor fabless and equipment companies are pursuing stock market listings as global artificial intelligence semiconductor demand drives production facility investment expansion. Hatchtech, a sensor IC design company, is set to list on the KOSDAQ on January 25, while

Korean investors concentrated purchases on Japanese semiconductor stocks from the 3rd to the 14th. Data from Korea Securities Depository showed Murata Manufacturing led net purchases at $5.319 million, followed by Tokyo Electron at $2.262 million. The buying shift occurred as Korean investors, who h

Fortinet, a cybersecurity company operating the FortiGate firewall platform, saw its stock close at $160.01 on August 14 (local time), marking a 105.46% increase from its January 2 closing price of $77.88. The surge follows the company's Q2 revenue reaching $2.05 billion, representing 26%

South Korea's financial authorities recently announced expanded real estate financial support measures, increasing the total from 26.3 trillion won to 47.8 trillion won+α, with the real estate investment banking (IB) industry focusing more on the policy signal that normal project financing (PF)