Bitcoin$80,480▼ 0.40%
Ethereum$2,331▼ 0.70%
XRP$1.31▼ 1.41%
KOSPI6,012.44▲ 6.63%
Nasdaq26,457.64▼ 0.08%
S&P 5007,730.49▲ 0.10%
USD/KRW1,342.47▲ 1.18%
Brent Oil$111.64▲ 2.04%
Samsung Elec.$180.26▲ 9.01%
SK hynix$1,108▲ 10.89%
Apple$344.86▼ 0.65%
Microsoft$528.81▼ 0.47%
Alphabet$323.88▲ 1.03%
Amazon$252.84▼ 0.10%
Nvidia$217.89▼ 0.02%
Meta$612.78▼ 1.19%
Tesla$399.71▼ 1.90%Latest news
Demand deposit balances at Korean banks have fallen by more than KRW 30 trillion so far this year. At the five major commercial banks, they dropped to around KRW 643 trillion as of the 15th, and this trend...
Global investors' view of Samsung Electronics is unusually hot right now. Target prices that had been stuck in a KRW 100,000 range for some time have lately been lifted, starting with the foreign investment bank Macquarie...
Anyone who has traded stocks even a little has had this experience. Two shares of the same company: one pays more dividends and is cheaper, yet oddly only the other one...
The official reasons the Chinese government tightly controls the crypto market are financial system stability and crime prevention. But behind that lies defending the value of the yuan and the state's...
As Elon Musk's SpaceX officially targets a 2026 initial public offering (IPO), the market is even calling it "the largest listing ever, surpassing Saudi Aramco." The key is not simply...
In the crypto market, a Fear Index at or below 10, when participant sentiment hits rock bottom, has historically always been a starting point for enormous wealth. BITPRESS looked at data from major past crashes...
The U.S. withdrawal from UN-related bodies and the Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland issues are better seen not as "simple diplomatic events" but as a strategy to cut America's external risks and costs and reallocate resource and security interests...
Apple has officially announced that it has chosen Google's Gemini AI model to power the next-generation Siri. Two companies that have long been rivals, on core technology...
Morgan Stanley's move to consider a Bitcoin ETF or expand related products is easily consumed as "even Wall Street has started believing in Bitcoin." But the essence of this news...
Over the past six months the crypto market did not just feel weaker, it was measurably weaker. After Bitcoin's October 2025 high above $126,000, the November low...
Dividend stocks are drawing attention again in the Korean stock market. More companies, even ones that paid almost no dividends in the past, are considering or actually raising dividends....
Look at the Korean stock market these days and unfamiliar terms pop up all at once: share buyback cancellations, Commercial Act amendments, separate taxation of dividend income. Each looks complicated on its own, but these...
The final crossroads left by a "two-year delay." At the end of 2024, the National Assembly agreed to push crypto taxation back two more years, to 2027. But now that 2026 has begun,...
The key variable in the 2026 crypto market is "regulation," not "supply and demand." The factors moving prices are no longer vague. How the U.S. treats which assets, and which products and...
XRP's recent rise looks less like a simple pump and more like the product of (1) inflows into U.S. spot XRP ETFs, (2) smaller regulatory risk as the SEC issue cleared,...
Samsung Electronics has pushed past KRW 120,000 and set another all-time high. The market's question is no longer “can it reach KRW 120,000?” Samsung's...
Do Tesla and Bitcoin really move in the same direction? Lately an interesting scene keeps repeating in the market. When U.S. tech stocks are strong, Bitcoin rises too, and when stocks wobble...
Why look separately at what happens after Tether buys? The Bitcoin market has many kinds of buyers. But **Tether** is a different animal. A buy from a player like this is **not a bet on a rally**...
1. This relationship is a "strategic alliance," not an "equity investment." First, let's be clear: Samsung is neither a major shareholder of **Coinbase** nor directly involved in its management. Even so...
Tether bought Bitcoin while the price was falling. Tether added roughly 8,888 BTC during the fourth quarter of 2025, increasing its holdings. What matters is that the buying...
1. Where things stand: why Mirae Asset–Korbit? The most meaningful change in Korea's crypto market is **not trading volume but a change in who is involved**. What these two cases have in common is...
1. Why is Korean investors' money moving abroad? In recent years the center of gravity for Korean crypto investors has shifted from domestic exchanges to foreign exchanges and offshore services...
1. What was the RIA account created to prevent? The RIA account is a temporary tax-saving tool introduced to steer money from selling overseas stocks into long-term domestic investment. The key...
"There are two stock exchanges? So do you sell Samsung Electronics separately on each?" "Isn't it run by the government?" Recently, the Korea Exchange (KRX) announced it would extend trading hours to 12 hours...
