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LG Innotek was added to the MSCI Korea Standard Index based on the closing price on August 31, with the stock experiencing significant intraday volatility ranging from -5.73% to +2.78%. The inclusion follows MSCI's August 13 announcement of its regular review, which also removed four companies from

In the early hours of August 31, 2026, Beijing time, U.S. Central Command confirmed that the U.S. military had launched airstrikes on two rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island near the Strait of Hormuz. This was the first public acknowledgment by the United States of a military strike against targets inside Iran since late July. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps immediately announced that it had launched missiles at U.S. military bases, declaring that “the aggressors will inevitably be

The USD-KRW exchange rate closed at 1,372.50 won on May 28 in the Seoul foreign exchange market, marking its lowest level in 13 months since July 24 last year. The decline stems from sustained foreign investor selling pressure and export company dollar sales following a semiconductor boom that

Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Salesforce (CRM), and AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) dominated retail trader attention during the final week of August as AI-driven demand shaped stock performance across the tech sector. Nvidia and CrowdStrike rallied on strong

On Aug. 29, Russian forces attacked a Sandora company warehouse in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv Oblast with Shahed drones, triggering a large-scale fire; Ukraine’s State Emergency Service temporarily suspended firefighting operations due to the risk of further explosions at the site, and local authorities disclosed the details on Aug. 30. The Mykolaiv Oblast administration stated that a food-industry warehouse had been damaged, while the specific categories of products stored in the attacked warehouse had

Former St. Louis Fed President James Bullard estimated in an interview on August 29 that the FOMC was “almost completely 50-50” on whether to raise rates in September, with the split roughly standing at “10 to 9.” Bullard said that rising gold prices are a “scorecard” of the market’s assessment of the Fed’s credibility. Foreign central banks collectively hold more than 1 billion ounces of gold, and he emphasized that they prefer physical gold over bitcoin. Existing Voting Record of the FOMC’s In

Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song emphasized financial stability as a key consideration in future monetary policy decisions during a press conference at Jackson Hole over the weekend. Shin stated that while price stability remains the primary mandate, real estate is a very important factor,

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood bought 243,707 shares through her ARK funds on Aug. 28, the day NVIDIA (NVDA) stock pulled back after its earnings report, for a total value of approximately $53 million. NVIDIA announced better-than-expected second-quarter results on Aug. 26, with adjusted earnings per share of $2.22 (expected: $2.10) and revenue of $96.22 billion. NVIDIA Q2 Earnings Data: EPS of $2.22 Beats Expectations According to CNBC, NVIDIA announced its second-quarter results on Aug. 26, 2026:

According to internal screenshots obtained by Business Insider, Google’s next-generation model, codenamed “Gemini 3.8 Flash Preview,” has appeared on the internal development platform Jetski. One tester described it as feeling noticeably better than 3.7 Flash. By comparison, Google’s flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, has missed its launch target three times in a row and still has no model number, pricing, or launch date. Gemini 3.8 Flash Preview Appears on Google’s Internal Platform According to i

Dyna Robotics released a report titled “Not Just a Model, But a Product” on Aug. 30, announcing that Dyna-2 robots had been fully deployed at all Din Tai Fung locations in the United States and had surpassed the return-on-investment threshold. Din Tai Fung USA is a restaurant chain that officially describes itself as having the highest per-location sales of any restaurant chain in the United States. The contract requires the robots to fold 1,500 napkins during an 18-hour shift. Performance Bench

Jon Bessent, the U.S. Treasury representative, faces a significant diplomatic challenge at the upcoming G20 summit as he addresses issues including tariffs, the ongoing Iran conflict, and recent bond market instability. Markets are speculating that Bessent's involvement could influence the

Bitcoin (BTC) has pulled back from last week’s high and was trading at around $77,680 as of August 31. Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor posted the message “We’re back,” hinting that the company may resume buying Bitcoin. Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to expand its crypto-backed lending business and will accept Tether’s USDT stablecoin and Ethereum as collateral. Macro Events & Crypto Highlights CoinTelegraph reported that in his latest post on X (formerly Twitter), Strategy’s Michael Saylor

UK-based proprietary trading firm XTX Markets distributed £1.7 billion in dividends from its 2025 fiscal year trading profits, with founder Alex Gerko receiving £683 million and 23 core technology developers sharing £833 million, according to a filing with the UK Companies House. Gerko's payout

Fourteen financial institutions surveyed by Yonhap Infomax on the 31st forecast the USD/KRW exchange rate will trade between 1,350.93 won and 1,409.21 won in September, marking a significant downward revision from

MG Saemaul Geumgo's corporate loan delinquency rate reached 10.17% at the end of June. The institution disposed of nearly 3.5 trillion won in non-performing loans during the first half of this year. The delinquency rate rose 2.40 percentage points from 7.77% at the end of last year, even as corporat

Korea Housing Finance Corporation announced on the 31st it will temporarily expand guarantee ratios for real estate project financing (PF) sites to 100% to facilitate housing supply. The measure, which increases the ratio from the existing 90-95%, will remain in effect until the end of next year and

Saemaul Geumgo missed its Q1 2024 merger deadline set in the 2023 reform plan, extending insolvent institution consolidation into a third year. The South Korean cooperative network completed 21 mergers in the first half of this year and plans 30 more in the second half, yet new insolvencies

TKG Aegang, a KOSDAQ-listed penny stock designated as a managed stock on the 13th, surged to its daily upper limit following a tender offer announcement by major shareholder TKG Taekwang. The shareholder will purchase 31.04% of outstanding shares at 900 won per share from today through next

Lee Dong-hoon, CEO of SK Biopharm, disclosed on the 31st that he purchased 2,000 shares of the company at an average acquisition price of 90,898 won per share, totaling approximately 180 million won. The purchase occurred one day after SK Biopharm publicly announced the introduction of Opakalim at a

Cronos Network announced on August 31 that it had suspended operations after the on-chain lending protocol Tectonic was attacked. On-chain researcher Li Weilin estimated that the attacker increased the price of the low-liquidity TONIC token by approximately 100x within about 20 minutes, then used the overvalued TONIC as collateral to borrow other assets from Tectonic, involving approximately $75 million. Technical Mechanism of the TONIC Price Manipulation Attack According to an analysis posted b