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According to financial sources, South Korea's central bank raised its key rate by 0.25 percentage points to 2.75% on July 16, signaling further hikes ahead. The move prompted the country's five major banks—KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana, Woori, and NH Nonghyup—to tighten household lending as they have al

According to ETF Check and the financial investment industry, SK Hynix ADR was rapidly incorporated into 11 domestic active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as of July 16, shortly after its U.S. Nasdaq listing on July 10. The ADR inclusion began on July 13, allowing asset managers to directly add SK Hyn

According to Guru Club, Singapore's benchmark Straits Times Index fell 1.2% on June 4, closing at 5,076.81 points.

According to ChainCatcher and Onchain Lens, whale 5bro.eth deposited 1.5 million USDC and placed a long order for 2,000 ETH (approximately $3.73 million) on Hyperliquid today (July 19). If executed, the position will reduce its short from 6,500 ETH to 4,500 ETH.
The address has generated a

According to monitoring by Beating platform, blogger leo recently questioned whether DeepSeek V4 Pro's official API routes complex programming requests to Claude Fable 5, potentially to collect outputs for model distillation—training a smaller model using a stronger model's answers.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on July 18 called Japan's cooperation with Ukraine in the drone sector an openly hostile action. The statement marks Russia's official position on Tokyo's involvement in military support for

According to Consensys legal head Matt Corva, on July 19, MetaMask discovered that a North Korean hacker named Tyler Knapp had infiltrated the team as an outsourced contractor and participated in developing the wallet's fiat on-ramp and off-ramp features. The hacker was employed for one month

Gate News message, a Hyperliquid whale with $34.7M in lifetime profits is moving to reduce its $12M ETH short position. 5bro.eth (@0x58bro) deposited 1.5M $USDC and placed a limit order to long 2,000 $ETH (~$3.73M).
If the order is filled, the trader's position would reduce from 6.5K $ETH short to

According to Iran's state television, the Banking Coordination Committee of Khuzestan Province announced on Sunday that all banks in the province will close on Monday.

According to Onchain Lens, pension-usdt.eth, the largest Ethereum shorter, held 50,000 ETH short positions worth approximately $93.3 million with an unrealized loss of $8.31 million on July 19.
The whale has accumulated $35.6 million in lifetime

According to CCTV Finance, on July 14, molybdenum ferroalloy prices jumped 15,000 yuan per ton compared to the previous day, reaching 332,000 yuan per ton. The metal, known as the "industrial vitamin," is widely used in steelmaking, high-end equipment, and new energy sectors. Molybdenum ferroalloy s

According to Sinovation Ventures research unit, DeepSeek V4 official version is expected to launch as soon as tomorrow, July 19. Two variants are available: DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Pro. Some users have already gained early access to the grayscale testing version.

According to Musk's recent comments, Tesla's Full Self-Driving system is shifting from a one-size-fits-all approach to personalized driving based on individual car owner habits. The neural network will now record how drivers manually intervene and adjust its behavior to match user preferences,

According to Onchain Lens, an Aster whale (address 0x89C3E5068d29Bdc3F25EC1044169C5CC7fd4A013) holds approximately $5.67 million in ESPORTS long positions while maintaining a short position of about $1.44 million on the token. The short position has incurred a loss of approximately $442,000 as of to

According to Beating, Kimi K3's launch sparked widespread debate over why the US failed to retain Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI. The model's performance in coding and agent tasks now approaches leading American AI systems, prompting questions from industry figures including Khosla Ventures fou

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell nearly 6% over two days as concerns persist that the industry cycle has peaked. Memory prices and capital flows remain stable, indicating recent weakness may be excessive, according to market observations. U.S. major tech companies' earnings announcements at

According to CNBC on July 19, the semiconductor sector experienced a sharp decline this week. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 8% weekly and 17% monthly, potentially ending three consecutive months of gains. The Roundhill Storage ETF (DRAM) dropped 17% on the week, while VanEck Semiconducto

According to Coinbit Research Center on July 19, real-world asset (RWA) perpetual futures have surged to $2.9 billion in open interest as of July 2, 2026, exceeding Bitcoin perpetual futures' $2.1 billion on Hyperliquid. The expansion marks a rapid shift beyond cryptocurrency markets, with major

According to South Korea's Ministry of Finance, the government announced measures on July 16 to address volatility in single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The basic margin deposit requirement for trading single-stock leveraged ETFs will increase from 10

According to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), South Korea's financial regulator issued an inspection opinion to Dunamu, operator of crypto exchange Upbit, on July 19, launching formal sanctions procedures related to a 44.5 billion won ($33.4 million) hacking incident that occurred on