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SK Securities saw its stock price fall by half in 37 trading days after exiting penny stock status through a reverse stock split, closing at 2505 won on the 30th of last month according to Korea Exchange data. The reverse split and treasury stock buyback initially improved investor sentiment, but an

Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office indicted HD Hyundai Oilbank and two pricing department employees for violating fair trade laws through coordinated gasoline price increases with SK Energy, following collusion that began in July 2024. The indictment stems from prosecutors' findings that

The Australian Securities Exchange has been ordered to pay a A$20.5 million civil penalty after Australia's Federal Court found the market operator misled investors about the progress of its troubled CHESS replacement programme. The ruling follows ASX's admission in June that its market

HashDex Chief Investment Officer Samir Kerbage and Charles Schwab's Head of Digital Currency Research Jim Ferraioli analyzed Bitcoin's recent underperformance despite US stock markets reaching all-time highs, attributing the divergence to capital rotation rather than fundamental deterioration. Kerba

Offshore cryptocurrency exchanges are facilitating perpetual futures contracts tracking Korean stocks, with SK Hynix-linked products (SKHYNIXUSDT) recording daily trading volumes averaging approximately 1.0972 trillion won during the 15th-28th of last month across eight major platforms. This volume

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has ordered a complete ban on employees using Anthropic's AI programming tool Claude Code starting July 10, classifying it as high-risk software, and requiring employees to switch to the group's self-developed Qoder tool. The ban covers Alibaba's global employees. According to reports from Reuters, Dow Jones and other foreign media, the reason behind it is related to concerns over "backdoor risks." Details of Alibaba's Ban: Claude Code Listed as High-Risk S

On July 6, NVIDIA officially announced the launch of a new Revenue-Sharing Model, allowing AI startups to exchange future revenue for GPU computing power without bearing the upfront huge hardware procurement costs; Sharon AI and Firmus are the first partners. First Partners: Sharon AI Deploys Up to 40,000 GB300 GPUs According to the official NVIDIA announcement, the first partners to respond to this business model are: Sharon AI, which is deploying up to 40,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs;

Samsung Electronics is conducting price negotiations for Q3 2026 general-purpose DRAM. According to South Korean media outlet Korea ZDNET, citing industry sources, the company aims to increase the average selling price (ASP) of general-purpose DRAM by up to 20% quarter-on-quarter; for LPDDR, due to "severe bottlenecks" in both server and mobile sectors, the target increase exceeds 20%. Samsung's Q3 Price Negotiation Targets: General-Purpose ASP Up to 20%, LPDDR Over 20% According to Korea ZDNET

India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a stern notice to Meta on Saturday over Child Sexual Exploitative & Abuse Material in paid advertisements on Instagram, according to Indian state broadcaster DD News. The government directed Instagram to immediately disable all advert

AT&T Inc. (T), Mattel, Inc. (MAT), and Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (HTZ) stocks slumped to 52-week lows last week amid challenging market conditions. T stock hit a low of $19.89 on Thursday but recovered to close up 0.49% after reports of SpaceX's direct-to-consumer mobile expansion triggered

The KOSPI index experienced extreme volatility on the 6th, surging to the 8300-level before reversing sharply and falling below 7900. As of 1:20 PM, the index traded at 7968.49, down 118.54 points (1.48%) from the previous session, after hitting an intraday low of 7815.53. Foreign investors and

Kim Ki-wan, a private banker at Korea Investment & Securities, won the 2025 Hankyung Star Wars competition with a 53% return but underperformed the KOSPI index in the first half of this year. His top performer was SK Hynix. Kim attributed the underperformance to misjudging large-cap rally

Vanadi Coffee, a Spanish coffee franchise that pivoted to a bitcoin treasury strategy, faces shareholder revolt over board member fees on bitcoin purchases. Vallecid, a Canarian conglomerate owning nearly 10% of Vanadi Coffee, demanded dissolution of the current board due to fees reaching up to 5% o

Hong Kong stocks face an unprecedented wave of lock-up share expirations as multiple IPOs from the past year reach their restriction periods, with brokerages warning of intensified selling pressure on the already struggling market. Morgan Stanley identified July and September as peak months for

The ECB announced on the 6th that its T2 payment system experienced a temporary disruption but has returned to normal operations. The outage occurred during a non-optional maintenance period, delaying the opening of settlement windows for the euro (EUR) and Danish krone (DKK). T2 serves as core paym

In its semi-annual report submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in July, SpaceX confirmed that it deorbited 260 Starlink satellites between December 2025 and May 2026. The FCC has proposed classifying space activities as "extra-territorial activities," arguing they should be exempt from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This proposal has not yet been approved and has sparked strong opposition from environmental groups. FCC Semi-Annual Report Data: 260 Deorbited, 34

Coinspect Security disclosed on July 6 that a wallet generation vulnerability named "Ill Bloom" is being actively exploited by attackers, rooted in an insecure pseudo-random number generator used in the recovery phrase generation process, resulting in lower-than-expected encryption strength of the mnemonic phrase, allowing attackers to control affected wallets and steal funds. The first known on-chain evidence of exploitation dates back to May 27, with total losses exceeding $5 million. Ill Bloo

South Korea's National Assembly Finance Committee Chairman Yoo Dong-soo stated on the 6th that virtual asset legislation must be addressed as a priority issue. During the committee's full meeting, Yoo declared that the Digital Asset Basic Act and related regulatory matters require deep examination a

Bitcoin miners held 1,802,814 BTC as of July 5 at 2 PM, while the network's hashrate fell to a two-week low of 933,560,256 TH/s on the same date, according to data from CryptoQuant and Blockchain.com. The hashrate decline of approximately 65,651,082 TH/s week-over-week marked the lowest level