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Korean stock market analysts expect cautious trading during the week of 18-21 as investors assess Federal Reserve policy direction. US July Consumer Price Index rose 3.4% year-over-year, matching expectations, while Producer Price Index showed stable trends, easing inflation concerns. The Federal

Listed companies in South Korea's M&A market face deal disruptions as stock price volatility widens valuation gaps between buyers and sellers. Investment banking industry sources report that recent market cap fluctuations have caused transaction setbacks and structural modifications. When stock pric

Korean securities firms issued 16.9876 trillion won in equity-linked securities through a specific date this year, approaching 2023's full-year total of 21.8156 trillion won. The market structure shifted following regulatory changes in February last year that restricted bank sales of complex

Seven Korean securities and asset management experts analyzed the Korean stock market following July's 22.19% KOSPI decline, the third-largest monthly drop in the index's history. The experts, responding to inquiries from Sidae media, concluded that while the downturn has largely ended, a rapid

South Korean construction stocks surged in August following the government's August 13 announcement of real estate supply measures. The KOSPI construction index jumped 25.15% and the KRX construction index rose 21.72% during the month, according to Korea Exchange data. The government's plan to suppl

Leading US artificial intelligence labs cut average inference prices by nearly 25% between mid-July and mid-August, according to Silicon Data analysis reported by the Financial Times. The price reductions came as Chinese AI providers DeepSeek and Moonshot applied competitive pressure with models

Jeff Booth, a Canadian entrepreneur and founding partner at Ego Death Capital, spent approximately 15,000 hours attempting to break Bitcoin's network security. Booth, who also serves as a director at Core Scientific and authored the 2020 book 'The Price of Tomorrow,' concluded the network cannot

China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) issued guidance in mid-September 2025 barring major technology firms from purchasing Nvidia AI chips, directing them toward domestic alternatives. Companies including ByteDance and Alibaba were instructed to suspend acquisitions of Nvidia hardware such as the

Nvidia H100 GPU rental costs increased roughly 40% between October 2025 and March 2026, with average rates climbing from $1.70 per GPU-hour to $2.35 per GPU-hour according to data from SemiAnalysis. The price surge stems from inference workloads and multi-agent AI systems pushing compute

Economic analyst Daniel Moss warned that the global economy is poised to face heightened economic shocks and inflationary pressures, stating that inflation targets should not be abandoned despite strain. U.S. inflation figures for July showed a year-over-year increase in the Consumer Price Index

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled 'Policy on the AI Exponential' directly confronting the growing backlash against artificial intelligence. Amodei argues the AI industry is facing a crisis of trust rather than a crisis of communication, asserting that public anxiety about AI

South Korean stocks surged last week, with the KOSPI index closing at 6977.94 on the 14th, up 11.49% as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix led gains. The rally followed easing geopolitical tensions and subsiding concerns over artificial intelligence investment slowdowns. The KOSDAQ index rose 8.24% to

Justin Sun, founder of TRON and advisor to HTX, clarified on August 14 that Binance's restrictions on HTX-related transactions apply only to users in the United Kingdom and the European Union. The clarification followed Binance's announcement that it would suspend transactions involving HTX and 10 o

Pearl Abyss closed at 31,250 won on May 14, declining 5,650 won (15.31%) over three trading days following its Q2 earnings announcement on May 11. The Korean game developer reported Q2 revenue of 192.6

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix credit balances rose as of the 14th, driven by investor expectations for upcoming shareholder return announcements. Samsung Electronics' credit balance reached 4.882 trillion won, up 9.4% from the end of last month, while SK hynix recorded 4.812 trillion won, a 20.9%

Two copper-themed ETFs listed in South Korea recorded divergent 1-month returns as of the date stated in source, with KODEX Copper Futures (H) gaining 3.07% while TIGER Copper Physical declined 0.51%. The performance gap emerged as the US considered tariff measures on refined copper imports,

A meme coin trader converted $120 into more than $205,000 within hours, according to on-chain data documented by tracking account Lookonchain on August 16, 2026. The trader purchased 19.1 million Niu Lai tokens when the project's market cap stood at $6,270, then sold 9.1 million tokens for $25,900 w

Bitcoin fell 46% over the past year while gold rose 32% as global bond yields reached levels last seen in July 2008. A Bloomberg gauge tracking long-dated government debt hit its highest yield in May. The cryptocurrency has never traded through borrowing costs this high — Bitcoin's first block was m

An Ethereum wallet from the Genesis era moved 2,680 ETH worth $5.03 million on Tuesday, Aug. 11, after 11 years of dormancy, while Tether received an unqualified audit opinion from KPMG U.S. for its 2025 financial statements. Arthur Hayes warned Bitcoin may fall to $50,000 before reaching $1 million

StablecoinX disclosed holdings of 3 billion ENA tokens, approximately 20% of Ethena's total ENA supply, in its quarterly operations report for the period ended June 30. The New York-based company reported the $218.4 million ENA treasury one day after completing its merger with TLGY Acquisition