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Circle's Bitcoin-backed loans: fewer coins for sale, or more?

Deposit Bitcoin and borrow dollars, and you don't have to sell right away. But if you borrowed half its value, the moment the price drops about 42%,...
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The US crypto bill stalled in the Senate. How did the SEC open the door to stock tokenization?

Just two days after the Senate blocked a bill setting crypto rules by 49 to 50, the SEC, without changing a single law,...
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Binance put $100 million into Circle. Why is it the one collecting monthly fees?

Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock, yet Circle will pay Binance a fee every month for five years. More than half of what Circle earns...
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A coin up 18,000%: what is Robinhood up to?

Behind PONS, which rose 181 times in under two months, is a setup that uses memecoin trading fees to buy back and destroy its own coin...
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Same chips, so why did foreigners buy SK hynix instead of Samsung Electronics?

On the first trading day after the Fed raised rates, foreigners sold more than KRW 2 trillion of KOSPI stocks. The 'switch to net buying' two days later was SK hynix...
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The jeonse renewal right protects tenants. Why does it push up new jeonse prices?

올림픽파크포레온 84㎡ 전세가 9월 새 계약은 16억5,000만원, 갱신은 8억4,000만원이었다. 갱신은 옛 값에서 출발하고 새 계약만 오른...

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The jeonse renewal right protects tenants. Why does it push up new jeonse prices?

At Olympic Park Foreon, an 84㎡ jeonse (Korea's lump-sum deposit lease) went for KRW 1.65 billion on a new September contract, versus KRW 840 million on a renewal. Renewals start from the old price and only new contracts absorb the higher market rate, yet those who stay...

Meta's AI assistant took off. Why did bank, insurance and gym stocks fall?

On Sept. 22 the Nasdaq hit a record high, but Charles Schwab fell 6.1% and Planet Fitness 9.5%. Investors worried that AI could switch customers who never bothered to switch on their own...

Binance put $100 million into Circle. Why is it the one collecting monthly fees?

Binance bought $100 million of Circle stock, yet Circle will pay Binance a fee every month for five years. More than half of what Circle earns goes out as distribution costs and the like...

A coin up 18,000%: what is Robinhood up to?

Behind PONS, which rose 181 times in under two months, was a setup that uses memecoin trading fees to buy back and destroy its own coin. All of that trading...

Same chips, so why did foreigners buy SK hynix instead of Samsung Electronics?

On the first trading day after the Fed raised rates, foreigners sold more than KRW 2 trillion of KOSPI stocks. The 'switch to net buying' two days later was a single day's worth driven by one stock, SK hynix,...

The US crypto bill stalled in the Senate. How did the SEC open the door to stock tokenization?

Just two days after the Senate blocked a bill setting crypto rules by 49 to 50, the SEC, without changing a single law, opened trading venues for tokenized stocks for five years...

Circle's Bitcoin-backed loans: fewer coins for sale, or more?

Deposit Bitcoin and borrow dollars, and you don't have to sell right away. But if you borrowed half its value, the moment the price drops about 42%, the Bitcoin you deposited, regardless of the owner's wishes,...

Why investors won't buy tokenized stocks even with SEC approval: what they wanted was leverage

When the same stock was listed side by side as a regular share and a blockchain share, 99.9% of trading went to the regular share. What investors in the crypto market wanted wasn't new packaging...

Samsung Electronics' KRW 110 trillion shareholder return: why do shareholders say they were misled?

Samsung Electronics unveiled a shareholder return plan worth KRW 90 trillion to 110 trillion, the largest ever by a Korean company. Yet among shareholders, disappointment broke out before any welcome...

Shareholder returns: KRW 40 trillion for SK hynix, KRW 100 trillion for Samsung Electronics?

Samsung Electronics, sitting on KRW 167 trillion in net cash, is preparing a new shareholder return policy that includes a special dividend and additional share buybacks and cancellations. The amount and method have not been finalized, but...

Money leaving leverage is flooding in. Earn KRW 1 million a month with just KRW 100 million? The truth about covered call ETFs

Retail investors who got burned on leveraged ETFs are flocking somewhere new: covered call ETFs that promise monthly payouts. The Korean market has already grown to KRW 26 trillion...

An obsession with portfolios & rebalancing (feat. pension funds and foreigners)

Warren Buffett's investing principles are simple: “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.” Of course, Buffett has also had paper losses along the way...

KOSPI at 7,400: how cheap is the Korean market right now?

The KOSPI has slipped to the 7,400 level. Samsung Electronics posted record earnings, yet the market sold. It looks strange, but it happens quite often in the stock market. Not because there is no good news...

1,600 won to the dollar?! Who is to blame?

Foreign profit-taking on stocks 30%, Korea-US rate gap and strong dollar 28%, Middle East geopolitical uncertainty 18%, structural pressure from overseas stock investment 12%, money supply and fiscal pressure...

This robot is mine now.

1. $325 million, the price of full ownership: Hyundai Motor Group bought the remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics held by SoftBank Group for $325 million, gaining full...

Korea's No. 1 stock by market cap has changed, from Samsung Electronics to SK hynix

A symbolic moment in the Korean stock market: SK hynix overtook Samsung Electronics in market capitalization during trading. According to Reuters, on June 22 SK hynix shares rose 5.7%, lifting its market cap to KRW 2,082.5 trillion...

Only just beginning? The AI supercycle starts now!

AI stocks have already climbed a lot. From Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC and SK hynix to Microsoft, Google and Meta, the market has spent the past few years rapidly pricing in AI expectations...

What does Boston Dynamics mean to Hyundai?

If you ask why Hyundai Motor bought Boston Dynamics, the simplest answer is “to prepare for the machine that comes after the car.” More precisely, Hyundai, through robots,...

Bitcoin: is the bottom $60,000 or $50,000?

As of June 10, 2026, Bitcoin is trading around $62,000. Compared with its all-time high of $126,000 set in October 2025,...

Another Trump war-driven drop? Get ahead of it this time

Right now your account is being shaken by war news. To avoid that, you need to read Trump's timeline first. Do stocks rise when a war ends? Trump's second half...