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Hanwha Ocean disclosed on the 27th that its Q2 operating profit surged 98% year-over-year to 736.1 billion won, doubling the prior-year quarter and significantly exceeding market expectations. The performance was driven by high-profit commercial vessels including LNG carriers and ongoing cost

Engendro Velho farm in Paraná, Brazil secured a loan of nearly $20K using 10 tokenized cows as collateral, while El Salvador's Central Bank reported that crypto comprised just $35.4 million (0.7%) of the country's $5 billion remittance market during H1 2026. The Brazilian transaction utilized

Triple-A, a Singapore-based stablecoin payments firm, confirmed unauthorized access to its treasury wallets resulted in the loss of company-owned digital assets. The company detected the breach on Saturday and issued an official statement on Monday. Triple-A temporarily placed certain services

The S&P 500 is on track to post a net profit margin of 15.7% for Q2 2026, the highest level in data going back to 2009, according to The Kobeissi Letter. The surge is driven by AI-fueled earnings growth, with second-quarter earnings for the index expected to rise 38% year-on-year—the highest growth

US and Hong Kong stock markets showed mixed performance on Friday and last week, with the Dow Jones rising while the Nasdaq declined. The Dow Jones increased 235 points or 0.46% to close at 51,947, the S&P 500 edged up 3 points or 0.05% to 7,411, while the Nasdaq fell 161 points or 0.64% to 24,975.

Korean securities firms identified power equipment stocks as the next major investment theme following AI semiconductor stocks on the 27th, citing rising power demand from AI data center expansion and recent price corrections that reduced valuation concerns. Mirae Asset Securities, KB Securities,

Domestic residents' foreign currency deposits in South Korea reached $113.33 billion at the end of June, rising $1.08 billion from the previous month, according to Bank of Korea data released on the 27th. The increase was driven by growth in securities firms' customer deposits and corporate trade re

Samsung Electronics announced on the 27th that it will apply a 2-nanometer foundry process with Gate-All-Around (GAA) structure to the base die of HBM5, the next-generation High Bandwidth Memory. The company stated through its semiconductor newsroom that HBM5's operating speed is expected to be

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce published a statement earlier this week suggesting crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may already fall within federal securities laws. Peirce stated that moving an activity onchain does not generally exempt it from those laws, warning that attempts to avoid r

SKC disclosed its second-quarter 2026 earnings on July 27, reporting revenue of 645.4 billion won and an operating loss of 14.4 billion won. The results exceeded analyst expectations, with revenue up 38.3 percent year-over-year and operating losses down 79 percent from the previous year. Market

The Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), Deloitte, and Dubai-based free zone DMCC launched the AI & Agentics Council to establish governance standards for AI-powered agents in blockchain gaming ecosystems. The council, operating as a department within BGA, was introduced with founding partners Xsolla,

The Korean stock market experienced unprecedented volatility in 2025, triggering circuit breakers seven times as of July 24. KOSPI reached an intraday high of 9385.59 on June 19, then plunged below 7000 within one month, recording an intraday low of 6429.03 on July 21—a 31.5% decline from the

Kiwoom Asset Management announced on May 27 that it will list the 'KIWOOM US CPU Semiconductor TOP4+' exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Korean Securities Market on May 28. The ETF concentrates investments in CPU companies emerging as core semiconductor players in the Agentic AI era. The fund

BitMart exchange experienced withdrawal processing slowdowns on Monday following its Sunday announcement to wind down operations. Blockchain analytics account Lookonchain reported that only 58 wallets withdrew approximately $805,000 in over 24

The SF-Olive Korea-Spain consortium has been selected by South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) for the '2026 International Joint Technology Development Project' to develop a Physical AI-based smart farm platform for olive

Ethereum and BNB Chain maintained their leadership in blockchain developer activity over the past 30 days, according to data compiled by Santiment. Ethereum recorded 263,300 developer activity events despite a 40.29% decline from the previous period, while BNB Chain followed with 121,800 events

Brazilian Federal Police announced Thursday the results of Operation Commodity, which dismantled a drug trafficking ring that smuggled over 6.5 tons of cocaine to Europe since 2021 using cryptocurrency to launder proceeds. The operation led to 13 arrests, 44 search-and-seizure actions, and the

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is visiting the White House this week to seek fast-track approval for a new AI model powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old mathematics problem, according to Axios reporting on the 26th local time. The visit comes as the Trump administration prepares to announce details of a v

The USD-KRW exchange rate rose to 1,466.80 won at 11:05 AM on the 27th, up 0.20 won from the prior Seoul session close of 1,466.60 won and 8.30 won above the New York close of 1,458.50 won. The uptick was driven by bargain-hunting from importers after the rate had declined sharply in recent

Investors now see a nearly 90% probability that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will raise its policy rate to 1.25% by October, up sharply from approximately 60% in late June, according to data from Totan Research and Totan ICAP cited by Nikkei Asia. The shift reflects mounting concerns over the yen's