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CME Group plans to launch six E-mini equity factor futures on 21 September 2026, pending regulatory review, according to the exchange's announcement. The contracts will track growth, value, quality, momentum and low-volatility versions of the S&P 500, plus the Dow Jones U.S. Dividend 100 Index. The

IREN Ltd. shares fell more than 8% in overnight trading late Thursday after the bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company reported quarterly earnings below Wall Street expectations. The company posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $137.2 million, missing the $157.14 million analyst consensus, w

The United States lost 0.823% of its Bitcoin mining hashrate share between Q1 and Q3 2026, dropping from 37.523% to 36.7% according to hashrateindex.com data from Aug. 27, 2026. During this period, the U.S. lost approximately 55 EH/s of computational power. Meanwhile, Russia and China increased

The USD-JPY exchange rate rose 0.14% to 159.545 yen as of 2:23 PM on August 28, according to Yonhap Infomax (screen number 6411) charts. The pair traded in a narrow range before strengthening slightly in the afternoon session as market participants adopted a wait-and-see stance ahead of Federal

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on Friday warned that the AI-driven memory chip supercycle will eventually turn cyclical as excess profits attract innovation and cheaper production methods. Arora stated excess profits typically encourage technological innovation and efforts to reduce reliance on

President Donald Trump praised Nvidia Corp. and CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday after the chipmaker's stock rose nearly 9%, marking its best day in over four months. Trump congratulated the company on Truth Social for announcing record sales of $96.2 billion and forecasting a 70% revenue rise in

NextTrade, a Korean alternative stock exchange, is considering implementing a single-price opening auction system for its pre-market trading session starting in January, according to financial industry sources on May 28. The exchange is responding to repeated incidents where SK Hynix stocks

Three South Korean internet-only banks—Kakao Bank, K Bank, and Toss Bank—met their second-quarter mid-to-low credit lending target of 30%, according to a disclosure by the Korea Federation of Banks on the 28th. Kakao Bank supplied 520 billion won in Q2 and recorded the highest mid-to-low credit

New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu said Waymo's defense of its sensor-heavy robotaxi system made him more confident in Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) stocks' vision-based approach, even as shares are on track to snap a three-week winning streak. TSLA stocks jumped 3% on Thursday but remain down 2% for t

South Korea's KOSPI stock index fell below the 6800 level on May 28, declining 123.49 points (1.79%) to close at 6788.88, as investor sentiment weakened following reports that the United States is reviewing new tariffs on imported semiconductors. The decline occurred despite ongoing share buyback

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission held its first plenary hearing on May 27 regarding alleged government bond bid-rigging by 15 financial institutions, including 10 securities firms and 5 banks. The firms are accused of exchanging bid rate information from January 2020 to June 2023 during governmen

Bitcoin reached a weekly high of US$81,148 in early Friday trading hours before falling back to US$79,812 at the time of writing, as the cryptocurrency tested a resistance zone between US$80K and US$83K. Analysts are monitoring this range, which previously capped Bitcoin's rally in May, to

Bae Ho-jin, ETF Operations team leader at KB Asset Management, advised investors to avoid emotional attachment to stocks during an interview on August 19 at the company's center in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. The 38-year-old fund manager warned against overconfidence from past profitable trades,

Canada will impose 25% to 50% retaliatory tariffs on US toilet paper raw materials starting September 8, escalating the trade war triggered by the Trump administration's tariffs of up to 50% on Canadian products. The US imported approximately $328 million worth of toilet paper from Canada in 2024, m

Strive Inc. (ASST) shares gained more than 7.5% at close on Thursday and the stock is on track to post its best monthly gains since May 2025, following a strong quarterly print earlier this month and continued

Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an institutional repo transaction using USDM1, a sovereign digital bond issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as collateral on the Canton Network. USDM1 is backed 1:1 by short-term U.S. Treasurys and structured under New York law a

Hyundai Motor Securities published an analysis on August 28 concluding that the Bank of Korea's interest rate hike on August 27 was a preemptive response to core inflation trends. Economist Choi Je-min attributed the move to core inflation's inertial characteristics, with approximately 80% of core i

StarkWare announced Wednesday that a transaction using its Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB) method was confirmed in block 964,199, mined by MARA Pool at 8:48 p.m. UTC. The transaction represents Bitcoin's first quantum-safe spend on mainnet, designed to shield moved coins from future quantum attacks

Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, according to analyst firm The Kobeissi Letter, while validators entered the final epoch of the network's first formal governance vote on proposals that include cutting about US$1.5 billion in new SOL issuance over six years. Voting opened

Nvidia filed paperwork Thursday to establish the Nvidia Corporation Employees Federal Political Action Committee as lawmakers and the Donald Trump administration move closer to defining AI rules. The new PAC will be funded by voluntary employee contributions capped at $5,000 per year and will