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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of $197 million between the 6th and 10th of July, ending an eight-week outflow streak. On the 6th of July, ETFs posted $265.7 million in inflows, the largest single-day figure since early May, with BlackRock's IBIT leading at $209.4 million while

Pepperstone has expanded its perpetual CFD offering beyond digital assets to traditional asset classes including Gold, Silver, Nasdaq, the S&P 500, WTI Crude and Brent Crude, positioning itself among the first regulated CFD brokers to bring perpetual market mechanics to conventional financial

Seoul Central District Court ruled that Korea Zinc's restriction of voting rights for major shareholder Youngpoong at the January 2025 extraordinary shareholders meeting was illegal, ordering CEO Park Ki-deok to pay 100 million won in consolation money. The court issued the first-instance judgment o

Single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix recorded losses exceeding 40% since their May 27 domestic launch through July 10, according to Korea Exchange data released July 13. The losses stem from the structural characteristics of leveraged ETFs,

Meta announced Monday that its Hyperion data center project in Richland Parish, Louisiana will expand to a 5-gigawatt facility costing over $50 billion, significantly higher than the $27 billion figure revealed in October when Meta and Blue Owl Capital formed a joint venture for the site. The

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire published a treatise in July 2026 titled 'The Agentic Economy: The Convergence of Intelligence and the Economy,' arguing that the AI agent economy and the on-chain economy form a single unified economic system. The treatise's central claim is that two operating

NinjaTrader Group created its first Chief Innovation & AI Officer role and appointed Brian Weis to the position, while hiring Stephen Yi as Chief Product Officer. The executive restructuring reflects the retail trading platform's strategic focus on artificial intelligence as brokers compete to

Transport International Holdings (00062), parent company of Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB), announced it expects basic profit for the interim period ending June to decline approximately 45% to 55%. The ongoing Middle East crisis has driven international fuel prices to surge from around $90 per barrel in

Hong Kong stock indices closed with divergent performance on Monday, July 13, with the Hang Seng Index edging up 0.16% to 24,213.72 points while the Hang Seng Tech Index fell 0.96% to 4,676.43 points. The mixed session was driven by a sharp selloff in storage and technology stocks, offset by gains i

BlackRock holds $2.93 billion in tokenized funds onchain, with Ethereum hosting $1.1 billion of that total. The bulk sits in the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), which held $2.58 billion in assets when Moody's assigned it an AAA-mf rating in 2026, the agency's top grade

The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team deployed a coordinated fleet of AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities in critical protocol code. The effort successfully uncovered genuine security issues, including a remotely triggerable panic in the libp2p gossipsub library that underpins Ethereum'

South Korean stocks entered technical oversold territory on July 13 after the KOSPI index fell 64.91 points to 7412.03, marking a decline of over 20% from its recent peak recorded last month, according to Samsung Securities. Analyst Yoo Seung-min attributed the drop to concerns over an artificial in

Webull Malaysia has launched an OpenAPI that allows retail investors to connect artificial intelligence tools directly to their brokerage accounts, becoming one of the first retail brokers in Southeast Asia to make API-driven, AI-assisted trading available to everyday investors. The launch

Crypto lawyer John E. Deaton stated that over 75,000 XRP holders provided critical support to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen during the SEC's lawsuit against the company, which was filed in December 2020 and concluded in August last year. Deaton's remarks followed G

European stock markets delivered mixed performance on Monday as Middle East tensions drove investors toward energy stocks while broader indices weakened. The FTSE 100 traded slightly higher despite risk-asset selloff triggered by Iran's announcement it closed the Strait of Hormuz 'until further

Hanwha Ocean sold over $2 billion in currency forwards on the 13th, marking its second consecutive large-scale foreign exchange hedging operation following a $2 billion transaction on the 10th. The shipbuilder is executing a strategic shift announced last month to raise its hedge ratio

KOSPI stocks experienced a sharp decline in trading activity on July 13, with daily average trading volume falling to 37.2639 trillion won for the week of July 6-10, down from a peak of 59.8994 trillion won during June 1-5. The decline was driven by reduced retail investor participation, with

Major Korean preferred stocks traded at an average 52.74% discount to their common stock counterparts as of May 13, widening from 37.43% at the end of last year, according to Korea Exchange data. The discount expansion occurred as common stocks rallied on AI semiconductor, robotics, and nuclear

Citi cut its 12-month Bitcoin price target from $143,000 to $82,000 in mid-July 2026 and reduced its net exchange-traded fund inflow assumption from $10 billion to zero. The revision followed June 2026 posting the worst month on record for US spot Bitcoin ETFs with roughly $4.5 billion of net

South Korea's KOSPI crossed the 9000 level this year and the country's stock market capitalization ranks around 7th globally, yet the Korean stock market remains classified as an emerging market by Morgan Stanley Capital International