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Brad Cooper, Commander of US Central Command, recommended halting bombing operations around the Strait of Hormuz targeting Iran this week (local time 20-24th), according to US online media outlet Axios on the 26th. Cooper assessed that the effectiveness of the operations had reached its limits.

Storj Labs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a federal court in West Virginia on Sunday, with case number 5:26-bk-00512. The decentralized storage company cited legacy liabilities from an earlier business phase that prevent growth, according to director of software engineering Kaloyan

The KOSDAQ index closed at 748.22 on the 24th, down 5.32%, marking its lowest closing level since June 2 of the previous year at 740.29. The index, which surpassed 1200 in April at 1203.84 after re-entering the 1000 level in January for the first time in approximately four years, has returned to lev

South Korean cryptocurrency investors are consulting tax professionals to verify fund sources ahead of crypto taxation starting January 1, 2027. Kim Ji-ho, a certified tax accountant at Law Firm Seum, stated that investors acquiring high-value real estate or showing increased consumption face fund s

KG Group is pursuing the sale of its auto finance subsidiary KG Capital, according to investment banking industry sources on July 26. The conglomerate has appointed Samjeong KPMG as the lead advisor and is currently seeking buyers for the 100% stake held by group affiliates including KG Inicis and f

Korean stock exchanges employ a three-tier volatility control system to manage extreme market swings amid heightened uncertainty from global geopolitical risks and Big Tech earnings announcements. On July 16, the KOSPI index closed down 463.81 points (6.37%) at 6820.60, exemplifying the type of

Korean semiconductor stocks recorded steep declines in July, with the KRX SK Hynix index falling 33.62% this month and the KRX Semiconductor index dropping 30.12%, according to Korea Exchange data released July 27. The decline was driven by structural reversal of leverage ETF inflows, margin

Hyosung Heavy Industries, HD Hyundai Electric, and LS Electric saw their stock prices fall approximately 40-44% from May highs, closing on the 24th at levels sharply below peak valuations. Analysts attribute the decline to fund rotation within AI-themed stocks following the launch of single-stock le

Korean oil-linked exchange-traded notes (ETNs) surged this month as Middle East tensions drove international crude prices sharply higher. The Meritz Leverage WTI Crude Oil Futures ETN (H) closed at 51,490 won on July 24, up 69% from 30,465 won at the end of last month, according to Korea Exchange

WSJ senior market columnist James Mackintosh published a column on May 26 (local time) warning that SK Hynix ADR's premium over its Korean stock represents another signal of AI overheating. The ADR has traded 16-51% above the Korean-listed shares since launching on May 10 in New York. Mackintosh

Jordi Visser, a macro investor with over 30 years of experience and founder of AI Macro Nexus / AI22 Research, stated on Anthony Pompliano's show that the era of rapid 7-8 fold gains in the AI sector has ended. Visser claimed that capital expenditures and hardware bottlenecks, including chip and

US biotech firm Ingeniaterapeutics conducts public subscription for Korean stocks on dates 30-31, according to investment banking industry sources on date 26. Vehicle display specialist NeoView re-lists on the KOSDAQ market on date 27 following a spin-off from TOBIS. The IPO activity occurs as the K

Stand With Crypto reported on July 26 that nearly 70% of surveyed crypto owners believe crypto policy will influence their vote in the 2026 midterm elections, as the CLARITY Act faces mounting pressure with 100 days remaining until the election. The crypto advocacy group's survey found nearly 8 in 1

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are scheduled to release Q2 earnings during the last week of July. Samsung Electronics will disclose finalized Q2 results on July 30 at 10:00 AM after reporting preliminary revenue of 171 trillion won (up 129.3% year-over-year) and operating profit of 89.4 trillion w

xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Moonshot AI released four frontier AI models within three weeks in July 2026. xAI shipped Grok 4.5 on July 8, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, OpenAI moved GPT-5.6 to general availability on July 9, and Moonshot AI published Kimi K3 on July 16. Each model

JoongAng Group bondholders' legal representatives submitted an accounting review request to South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) on the 24th, targeting five group affiliates including JTBC, JoongAng Holdings, Dabo JoongAng, Contentree JoongAng, and Megabox JoongAng, the legal team

President Lee Jae-myung met with six major Silicon Valley venture capital firms on the 24th and 25th (local time) in San Francisco, according to Policy Director Kim Yong-beom's Facebook post on the 26th (local time). The meeting brought together Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), General Catalyst,

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, priced at $5 per million input tokens—half the cost of its predecessor model Claude Fable 5—while outperforming Fable 5 on most major benchmarks. Opus 5 scored 43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1, an agentic coding evaluation, versus 33.7% for Fable 5

Bitcoin price recovered above $64,000 over the weekend after President Donald Trump paused U.S. strikes on Iran Friday night while diplomatic talks with Tehran continued. Trump ordered the military to halt strikes after 13 straight nights of American bombing, saying the U.S. remained "locked and

Elon Musk told The Economist in an interview published late July 2026 that money will not matter by 2036 as artificial intelligence and robots outproduce human demand. Musk argued that when food, housing, transport, and entertainment become abundant through automation, money loses its purpose,