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Korea Financial Investment Association held an emergency meeting on the 14th with representatives from 10 major securities firms to raise minimum deposit requirements for leveraged ETFs, citing investor protection concerns. The meeting took place one day before a Financial Services Commission

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, disclosed in a 2022 podcast interview with Peter McCormack that she personally bought $100,000 worth of Bitcoin at around $250 per coin after reading the Satoshi white paper. She has never sold a single coin. That disclosure landed at a time when Bitcoin was

Seven KOSPI-listed stocks with English names starting with 'S' — Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, SK Square, Samsung Electronics Preferred, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung C&T — saw their combined market capitalization share rise from 40.15% at year-end to 62.31% by

KB Securities maintained its buy rating and 420 million won target price for SK Hynix stocks on January 15, forecasting that memory supply shortages driven by artificial intelligence datacenter investment expansion will continue until at least 2028. Research Head Kim Dong-won stated the recent stock

Binance expects its next phase of growth to come from payments and financial services rather than cryptocurrency trading alone, according to Shunyet Jan, the exchange's head of spot trading and derivatives business. Jan said stablecoins are changing how users interact with digital assets, pushing th

The KOSPI index closed 49.90 points (0.73%) higher at 6856.83 on the 14th following extreme volatility, as reported by Financial News with imagery from Yonhap News showing staff at Hana Bank's dealing room in Jung-gu, Seoul. The modest gain occurred amid a 27 trillion KRW withdrawal from investor de

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi stated on the 14th (local time) that Iran will not be the first to request negotiations with the United States. According to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, Gharibabadi emphasized that Iran will not retreat

Polymarket launched a prediction contract on June 29, 2026, asking whether the US Treasury will conduct an official blockchain transaction by December 31, 2026, excluding pilots or proof-of-concept experiments. The contract's emergence follows concrete institutional milestones: Tradeweb completed a

Apyx protocol closed a $300 million valuation strategic funding round in February 2026, raising $3 million total across two oversubscribed rounds with zero venture capital participation. The protocol launched on the Ethereum mainnet in February 2026 as the first dividend-backed stablecoin,

GRVT, a hybrid decentralized exchange built on a zero-knowledge application chain, is targeting its token generation event shortly after its Season 2 campaign closes on June 30. The exchange increased its community and airdrop allocation from 22% to 28% of the total one billion token supply, with Se

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix stocks have corrected, prompting securities analysts to cite historically low price-to-earnings ratios as evidence of undervaluation. Samsung's 12-month forward PER stands at 4.41x and SK Hynix at 4.69x, both significantly below their 10-year averages of 11.84x and 7

Korean defense stocks fell on July 15 as US-Iran geopolitical tensions escalated, with Hanwha Aerospace dropping 6.84% to 872,000 won. The decline reflected reduced expectations for large-scale defense contracts, as instability in the Middle East complicates contract negotiations. Trump announced a

Korean steel stocks recorded a price-to-book ratio (PBR) of 0.39x as of July 14, the lowest among 17 KRX sector indices, according to Korea Exchange data. POSCO Holdings stood at 0.42x, Hyundai Steel at 0.18x, and SeAH Besteel Holdings at 0.56x - significantly below the global steel company

Korean retail investors purchased approximately 1.36 million shares of SK Hynix American Depositary Receipts following the semiconductor company's Nasdaq listing on local time May 10, according to data from nine major domestic brokerages reported by Yonhap News on May 15. The purchases

Gold prices rose over 1% on the 14th at 2:33 PM US Eastern Time as US June Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell more sharply than expected, weakening interest rate hike bets and boosting gold's appeal. August delivery gold futures (GCQ6) on the CME's COMEX exchange stood at $4,064.90 per troy ounce,

Five leading AI models—Kimi K26, ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.3, and Gemini Pro—were asked to assess whether Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto was a sole individual or a group using Bayesian probability analysis. The models produced solo creator estimates ranging from 45% to 70%, a

The KOSPI declined 19.11% this month through the previous day, with market capitalization falling 1,312.79 trillion won to 5,616.75 trillion won, Korea Exchange reported. Semiconductor stock weakness drove the downturn, as the KRX semiconductor index dropped 22.80%, Samsung Electronics

A 50-year-old Korean dividend investor known as 'Pyeong-on' generates 5 million won in monthly dividends after transforming his strategy following the March 20, 2020 market crash. The recently retired investor holds over 4 billion won in assets, producing 60 million won annually in dividend

Retail investors in South Korea lost approximately 8.8337 trillion won in single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over nine trading days from July 1 to July 13, according to data from F&N Guide QuantiWise and Mirae Asset Securities. The losses occurred as KOSPI volatility intensified

The Bank of Korea released its June 2026 import and export price indices on July 15, showing import prices fell 4.4% month-over-month on a won basis - the steepest decline in three and a half years since December 2022. Export prices remained flat at 0.0% month-over-month while rising 48.9% year-over