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SK Hynix's US-listed ADR surged 27.29% on July 14 (local time), driving South Korea's KOSPI to recover 6.24% to 7284.41 on July 15. British investment bank Barclays set SK Hynix ADR target at $330, while IBM CEO Arvinds Krishna confirmed customers are reallocating capital expenditures to secure

Securities firms acting as liquidity providers for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds are disrupting South Korea's corporate bond market as extreme stock price volatility forces them to post additional margin requirements. The securities firms must supply s

Low-volatility exchange-traded funds in the Korean stock market showed divergent performance during recent market turbulence. Return gaps reached up to 7 percentage points over a one-week period. According to KOSCOM ETF CHECK data reported on the 15th, PLUS High Dividend Low Volatility 50

ARK Invest purchased 220,000 shares of Circle Internet Group (CRCL) across three actively managed exchange-traded funds on Tuesday, according to the company's daily trade disclosure. The purchase, worth approximately $13.9 million based on Circle's Tuesday closing price of $63.22 on the New York

Foreign investors have rapidly restructured their Korean bond portfolios toward government bonds following the country's inclusion in the World Government Bond Index (WGBI), according to an iM Securities report released on the 15th. Analyst Kim Myung-sil estimated the actual increase in foreign inve

South Korea's Financial Services Commission decided on amendments to the Electronic Financial Supervision Regulations at its 13th regular meeting on the 15th, requiring electronic payment operators and financial companies to provide detailed payment fee disclosures when signing or renewing

Japanese stock market indices posted strong gains on the 15th, driven by semiconductor sector strength. The Nikkei 225 rose 1,008.01 points (1.49%) to close at 68,751.51, while the Topix index gained 49.14 points (1.22%) to 4,088.12, according to Yonhap Infomax World Stock Index data. The rally

Kalshi launched GPU forward curves to provide AI companies with pricing benchmarks for compute infrastructure. GPU availability and pricing remain highly volatile due to new chip generations and supply constraints, creating demand for financial hedging tools similar to commodity markets. The move

Interactive Brokers has expanded its crypto offering with nine additional tokens and two-way stablecoin transfers. The company announced clients can now trade nine new tokens through Zero Hash: Aave, Aptos, Canton, Lido DAO, Monad, NEAR Protocol, Plasma, Pax Gold and Uniswap, with three assets (Aave

U.S. government-labeled seized-funds addresses moved roughly $12.9 million in crypto over a six-hour window, according to Arkham data cited by Wu Blockchain. The largest transfer came from an address holding funds seized in connection with the Bitfinex hack, sending about 5,939 ETH and 296,709