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Samyang Packaging received buy orders totaling KRW 900 billion for its KRW 600 billion corporate bond issuance, achieving 1.5 times oversubscription according to investment banking industry sources. The bond offering aims to refinance KRW 600 billion in unsecured bonds maturing next

LG Group faces divergent impacts from AI expansion across its business portfolio, according to analysis presented at a Korea Ratings web seminar on the 28th. Ha Hyun-soo, senior researcher at Korea Ratings Corporate 3 Division, stated that while AI-driven data center growth creates opportunities

SK Group's credit risk has eased due to strong semiconductor division performance, according to Ha Hyun-soo, senior researcher at Korea Ratings, who presented at a web seminar on May 28. The improvement comes despite continued weakness in petrochemical and battery divisions, with the group's total d

Asahi Shimbun editorial board member Kiyohide Inada published an analysis on the 28th warning that South Korea's record-breaking semiconductor export boom may deepen social inequalities rather than resolve structural economic problems. The column cited data showing semiconductor exports in the

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