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The National Pension Service faces reduced pressure to sell domestic stocks as the KOSPI decline has lowered the proportion of Korean equities in its total assets, though its domestic stock holdings remain above the year-end target ratio. The fund's total assets recently fell to around 1,700

Bae Jae-kyu, CEO of Korea Investment Trust Management, urged investors to stop investing in single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through a Facebook post. The warning came as SK Hynix-based leveraged ETFs showed massive discrepancies between theoretical and actual performance during re

U.S. spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds recorded net inflows on Friday July 17, with Bitcoin ETFs attracting $132.3 million and Ethereum ETFs posting $36.7 million. The combined $169 million reflected continued investor allocation to regulated digital-asset vehicles. Institutional demand

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited is preparing to let investors pay stamp duty and trading-related charges in renminbi when buying shares through Hong Kong's RMB counters, following the publication of the Stamp Duty (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 2026 in the Hong Kong Government Gazette on

South Korea's retirement pension assets grew by 57.1 trillion won in H1 2025 to reach 553.9 trillion won, according to the Financial Supervisory Service's integrated pension portal. Defined benefit (DB) pension balances

Input Output will transfer development of six core Cardano software components to independent specialist firms from August, continuing into 2027. The transition includes the Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, Daedalus wallet, Hydra layer-2 system, Mithril protocol, and developer

DL Group is pursuing the sale of its subsidiary DL Motors through individual contact with select potential buyers, with domestic auto parts manufacturers reviewing acquisition proposals at a transaction size discussed in the mid-100 billion KRW range based on 100% equity. The conglomerate is also

Cardano activated its van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, completing the network's first protocol upgrade whose final approval and execution were determined entirely through its decentralized onchain governance system. The upgrade took effect at 21:44:51 UTC at the boundary of epoch 644,

Germany's Federal Statistical Office announced on July 20 (local time) that the country's Producer Price Index (PPI) for June rose 1.8% year-over-year, a deceleration from May's 2.2% increase. The slowdown was driven primarily by intermediate goods price increases, which expanded to 5.1% year-over-y

Cryptocurrency payments company BitPay announced that its Dutch subsidiary, BitPay B.V., has received authorization as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. The authorization enables BitPay t

Rapper Drake lost a $1.5 million USDT bet on Argentina after Spain defeated the South American team 1-0 in the World Cup final on July 19. The wager, placed through crypto casino Stake at +245 odds, would have returned approximately $5.175 million if Argentina had won. Spain's Ferran Torres scored t

Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer gained 0.4% and 0.8%, respectively, in early premarket trading on Monday after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk denied a report that the rocket company had placed a $52 billion order with Foxconn for Nvidia-powered AI servers. Musk called the report 'fake news' in resp

The 2026 World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico ended with Spain lifting the trophy in the west—but the data trails left in Crypto prediction markets are still fermenting. The two major platforms Polymarket and Kalshi have combined for a total trading volume of $5.5 billion on World Cup final contracts; Polymarket’s World Cup champion contracts alone have累计成交 $4.28 billion. This makes the World Cup champion prediction the platform’s highest-volume single event contract in history, surpassing th

Franklin Templeton expanded its BENJI tokenized money market fund, valued at approximately $1.5 billion, to BNB Chain, marking another step in the asset manager's broader blockchain strategy. The move extends one of the world's largest tokenized investment products to an additional public blockchain

GCEX, an institutional digital asset and FX prime broker, has appointed Mohammed A. Mulla to the board of its Dubai entity, GC Exchange FZE. The appointment strengthens the company's leadership team as it expands its regulated digital asset business across the Middle East. Mulla, who spent 16

Hugging Face disclosed on July 16, 2026, that its production infrastructure had been breached by an autonomous AI agent system. The attack exploited two code-execution vulnerabilities in the platform's data-processing pipeline: a remote-code

Binance and Bybit recorded combined stablecoin outflows exceeding $2.3 billion over the past 30 days, according to data reported by Coinpedia. Binance accounted for approximately $1.55 billion of the outflows, while Bybit recorded roughly $786 million during the same period. The outflows reflect a b

Bitcoin whale wallets holding between 1,000 and 10,000 BTC accumulated approximately 66,700 BTC over the 60 days ending July 19, representing one of the strongest buying waves of the year. The accumulation occurred while Bitcoin price remained stable between $64,500 and $64,700 in mid-July,