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Japanese investment banks are selling government bonds at a loss after 10-year yields hit 3%, the highest since 1996. Yamaguchi Financial Group leads the sell-off driven by faster-than-expected Bank of Japan rate hike expectations, prompting banks to dump long-term bonds and shift to maturities

Strive Asset Management financed its Bitcoin purchases through SATA stock for nine consecutive trading days, buying another approximately 104 Bitcoin on September 1. According to an 8-K filing submitted on August 31, the company purchased 1,800 Bitcoin at an average price of $79,431 between August 24 and 28, increasing its holdings to 23,156 Bitcoin. SATA Stock Structure: Nasdaq-Listed, 13% Annualized Yield SATA is the ticker for Strive’s Series A floating-rate perpetual preferred stock, which t

Korea Exchange (KRX) launches an after-hours stock trading market on the 14th, enabling real-time stock transactions from 4 PM to 8 PM. The new market replaces the existing after-hours single-price trading system, which operated from 4 PM to 6 PM with batch execution every 10 minutes, and applies a

South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance rescheduled the September 20-year treasury bond auction from September 22 to September 9, according to a notice issued the afternoon of September 1. The auction will feature the 26-10 series bonds instead of the current benchmark 25-9 series. The schedul

Capital Research and Management Company disclosed holding 23,568,346 shares of Shinhan Financial Group stocks as of the 26th of last month, representing a 5.02% ownership stake. The disclosure establishes Capital Group as the third-largest institutional shareholder in Shinhan Financial, following th

The South Korean government reversed its Individual Savings Account (ISA) tax reform policy on the 1st of the previous month, one month after the initial announcement. The reversal removes the proposed 5-year contract limit and annual contribution carryover restrictions that had drawn significant

Sept. 1 marked a coordinated round of price increases in China's smartphone market, with the three major brands—Huawei, Xiaomi, and HONOR—simultaneously raising prices on multiple flagship models. The most significant increases were seen in the Huawei Mate 80 series: the base model rose from 4,699 yuan to 5,499 yuan, while the top-end version increased from 8,999 yuan to 9,999 yuan. Starting prices for the entire Xiaomi 17 series rose by at least 300 yuan, and HONOR also adjusted the price of it

Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) attracted $3.5 billion in net inflows during August 2025, marking the strongest monthly performance since July 2024. The surge reflects heightened institutional demand for regulated Bitcoin exposure, according to commentary from analyst Nate Geraci. The infl

The Trump administration will deploy all available measures to prevent US 10-year Treasury yields from exceeding the 5% threshold, according to a forecast by Oxford Economics released on local time September 1. As of that date, 10-year yields had climbed to 4.79%, driven by investor inflation

Korea Federation of SMEs announced on the 2nd (Korean time) that stablecoins can serve as a tool to improve transaction efficiency and reduce costs in trade settlement and clearing processes for exporting small and medium-sized enterprises. Oh Ki-woong, Standing Vice Chairman of Korea Federation of

Tencent released and open-sourced “Hunyuan Hy4 Preview” on Aug. 31. It uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 770 billion total parameters and a context window exceeding 1 million tokens. In a blind test involving 203 engineering tasks and 163 Tencent experts, Hy4 Preview averaged 2.99/4.00, slightly outperforming GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3. Core Specifications of Hy4 Preview: 770-Billion-Parameter MoE Architecture According to Tencent’s release materials, Hy4 Preview uses a mixture-of-exper

On September 1, the decentralized exchange token Uniswap ($UNI) rose more than 12% at one point during the day, reaching approximately $5.88. Tokenized stocks are an important source of trading volume on Robinhood Chain—Uniswap processed approximately $1.5 billion in tokenized stock trades on Robinhood Chain in about six weeks. DeFi TVL Reaches $87.35 Billion As of September 1, 2026, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols was approximately $87.35 billion, up 0.51% over 24 hours. The tota

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has scheduled a key procedural vote on the crypto market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, for Sept. 15. Once the Senate reconvenes, passage of this step could pave the way for a subsequent full Senate vote. The Senate did not vote on the bill before its August recess, and it still faces two core disputes: stablecoin reward arrangements and ethics provisions related to the crypto asset interests of Trump and his family. The CLARITY Act’s Legislative Goals an

People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok called for a National Assembly investigation and special prosecution into alleged lobbying involving single-stock leveraged ETF approvals during a press conference at the National Assembly on September 2nd. Jang labeled the controversy 'ETF Gate' and cited t

Anthropic signed a $35 billion cloud computing agreement with Lambda, a cloud computing provider backed by Anthropic and NVIDIA, with some of the capacity located at the Beacon Point campus being built by Hut 8 (HUT) in Nueces County, Texas. HUT shares initially rose after the news emerged before retreating, closing at $77.57 on Sept. 1. Anthropic and Lambda’s $35 Billion Agreement Anthropic signed a $35 billion agreement with NVIDIA-backed cloud computing provider Lambda to build data center co

Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) will receive 850 billion won in government support under next year's budget, marking the first major cash injection from the government. The Ministry of Climate and Environment allocated 500 billion won for direct equity investment and 350 billion won for

According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records dated Sept. 2, Fairshake affiliate Protect Progress PAC spent slightly more than $189k on media expenses in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District, supporting Democratic incumbent Jake Auchincloss in his reelection campaign. Democratic challenger Jason Poulos said some of the funds were used to produce “AI-generated junk campaign mail.” Protect Progress PAC’s Massachusetts Spending According to FEC records date

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that G20 members reached a consensus on key economic issues during recent discussions. The agreement involved 19 of the 20 G20 members and focused on multilateral development initiatives and inclusive growth strategies. The consensus underscores