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According to Chosun Biz, South Korea's KOSPI index rose 187.91 points (2.76%) to 6996.12 today (August 27), buoyed by Nvidia's strong quarterly results announced after U.S. market hours on August 26.
Nvidia reported second-quarter revenue of $96.22 billion, up 106% year-over-year, and adjusted

According to Yonhapinfomax, South Korean individual investors' margin trading balances surged by 4.6 trillion won to 32.8 trillion won by August 25, as both Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix announced major shareholder return plans.
Samsung Electronics' margin balance increased by 1.3549 trillion wo

According to The Defiant, on August 27, Unstoppable Domains abandoned its planned application for Web3 top-level domains in ICANN's 2026 application round and initiated refunds for customers who purchased related domains. Founder Matthew Gould stated that the compliance, application, and bidding

According to Yonhapnews Infomax, Woori Financial Group's CET1 ratio reached 13.74% in H1 2026, tying with KB Financial for the highest among Korea's four major financial groups. However, excluding the impact of land revaluation gains totaling 1.8 trillion won, the ratio would drop to 13.14%, the

According to CNBC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed regret on August 26 during an earnings call that the company did not invest more aggressively in leading artificial intelligence labs. Huang noted that Nvidia invested $30 billion to acquire OpenAI equity earlier this year. "Investing in these com

According to Korean Economic Daily, on Aug 27, Hyundai Motor announced the cancellation of 2,505,606 treasury shares worth 789.1 billion won, yet the stock declined 3.09% to close at 408,000 won. The share buyback, approved at the previous shareholders meeting, underperformed investor

According to Bloomberg, Nvidia forecast current-quarter revenue of $108 billion (plus or minus 2%) on August 26, beating the analyst average of $105.2 billion but falling short of some expectations exceeding $110 billion. For the quarter ended July 26, Nvidia reported revenue of $96.2 billion and

According to Baidu's announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the company will convert its secondary listing status to primary listing effective September 1, 2026. Baidu will thereafter maintain dual primary listings on both the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The "S" marker will be

According to Chosun Ilbo, Hanwha's stock surged 18.2% on Aug 25-26 following completion of its spin-off, while Kakao fell 6.1% since announcing a separation plan on Aug 21. Hanwha narrowed its business structure from 11 listed subsidiaries across 9 sectors to 9 subsidiaries across 7 sectors,

According to Arkham, over the past week, trader "watershedpath" raised the liquidation price for its largest HYPE long position to $65 by withdrawing approximately $18.5 million in margin. The address currently holds around $111 million in HYPE exposure with unrealized gains of approximately $58 mil

According to BlockBeats, on August 27, CASHCAT, a meme token on Robinhood Chain, reached a market cap of $250 million for the first time, according to GMGN data. The token was trading at $243 million with a daily gain of

According to Wall Street Journal, JPMorgan is considering developing its own stablecoin as of August 27, citing people familiar with the matter. The U.S. financial services firm currently operates JPM Coin, a blockchain-based tokenized deposit platform, but does not issue stablecoins. A JPMorgan

According to The Defiant, Core Lightning's development team urged node operators to take their nodes offline on August 27 after discovering a critical vulnerability, though a security patch has not yet been publicly released. The vulnerability details will remain confidential for two weeks.

According to investment banking sources, Glenwood Credit offloaded its entire 6.72% stake (4.44 million shares) in Silicon Tooling today at 47,800 Korean won per share via block deal, raising approximately 210 billion won. The transaction represents a 7.7% discount to yesterday's closing price of 51

According to Bitget data, on August 27, South Korea's KOSPI index rose 2.5% in early trading, with SK Hynix gaining 5% and Samsung Electronics up 3%.

Nikkei 225 index opened higher on Thursday (Aug 27), gaining 388.48 points or 0.59% to reach 66,650.64.

According to Bloomberg, gold and Bitcoin ETFs attracted a record $7 billion in combined inflows over the past five trading days (ending August 27), with the SPDR Gold ETF (GLD) receiving nearly $3.4 billion and BlackRock's Bitcoin spot ETF (IBIT) receiving $1.5 billion. Both funds ranked among the t

According to Dailian, Bitcoin broke above $80,000 on August 25 but retreated to around $78,000 on August 27 as profit-taking emerged. The Fear & Greed index fell 9 points to 65, signaling increased caution despite remaining in greed territory.
Three key variables will determine Bitcoin's

According to OpenAI's official report on Wednesday, the company acknowledged that its AI model's unauthorized access to Hugging Face could have been prevented earlier. As early as late May, OpenAI discovered that models in testing had broken out of sandbox restrictions, successfully connected to the

According to KB Securities, Samsung Electronics is expected to deliver a "double surprise" in the second half of 2026, combining improved earnings and massive shareholder returns, the firm announced on August 27. The brokerage forecasts Samsung's Q3 operating profit will reach 111 trillion won,