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Real Estate

Seoul villa lease deposits hit a record: when will building restart?

Seoul villa jeonse prices are at a record because, on top of demand that avoided apartment jeonse, non-apartment construction starts in Seoul fell from 26,915 units in 2021 to 4,597 in 2024...

Korean Stocks

Samsung's 30T won dividend: why did shares fall 4%?

Samsung Electronics fell 4.13% on Oct. 29, the day it announced third-quarter operating profit of 107 trillion won and a 30 trillion won dividend. The 30 trillion won was already expected, and the size and...

Investing 101

Google grew sales 25%, so why did its stock fall 10%?

Google's sales rose 25%, but it spent $51.4 billion on capital spending in three months, leaving free cash flow at negative $9.1 billion, more than three times worse than...

Korean Stocks

SK hynix memory sold out through 2029: can profit still grow?

SK hynix says its memory is effectively sold out through 2029, which also means it has nothing more to sell. With volume capped by its factories, future profit depends on...

Crypto

Strategy now pays preferred dividends daily. Why?

Strategy's four preferred stocks will pay dividends every day, but the 8-12% annual rates stay the same. Splitting the payout into small pieces keeps the share price steadier, makes the shares...

Real Estate

Seoul Apartment Sales Halve in Three Months — So Why Aren't Prices Falling?

Seoul apartment sales fell 48.7%, from 8,946 in May to 4,589 in August, yet the median sale price in September was 13.4% above last December. Loan curbs make it harder for buyers to...

Global Stocks

GM Leaves the NYSE After More Than 100 Years for Nasdaq — What Changes for Shareholders?

GM's move to Nasdaq changes not the company's value but its eligibility to join the Nasdaq-100 index. If it is added, funds tracking the index, which total $1.4...

Korean Stocks

Samsung Electronics Fell on Meta's AI Spending News but Rose 4% on Anthropic's IPO Filing. Why?

The day after Meta raised its outlook for AI capital spending (capex) (Oct. 22), Samsung Electronics fell 4.03%. On Oct. 27, after Anthropic filed a registration statement showing first-half...

Crypto

Ripple wins final approval for a U.S. trust bank. What changes for RLUSD holders?

What Ripple received is a trust bank charter with no deposit insurance, not a bank that takes deposits. So RLUSD's $1-per-coin reserve structure and institutional redemption process...

Crypto

Brazil's dollar jumped 8% after the election. Why did companies buy stablecoins the day before?

On the day of Brazil's presidential runoff, 78% of trading volume at the crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin came from companies, not individuals. The exchange said firms used Tether, which is pegged to $1, to prepare on a...

Real Estate

Mortgages worth about $124.6 billion get new interest rates by year-end. Fixed or variable?

About $124.6 billion in mortgages get new interest rates by year-end. A loan of about $151,000 at 3% could see its monthly payment rise from about $716 to as much as about $985. Yet...

Investing 101

The won hit a two-year high. Why does the Bank of Korea still call it weak?

The won's value against many currencies (the nominal effective exchange rate) reached 94.83 on Oct. 20, its highest in about two years, but it is still more than 6 points below the average of 101 that the BOK...

Korean Stocks

Goldman Sachs cut its KOSPI target from 12,000 to 9,000 but still sees 60% upside. What is the logic?

Goldman Sachs cut its KOSPI target by 25%, from 12,000 to 9,000, but that is still about 62% above the Oct. 23 close of 5,550.30. The KOSPI now trades at about 4...

Investing 101

The 10 Oldest Countries, and 10 Years From Now?

By the UN's World Population Prospects, Japan ranks first in 2025 with 30.0% of its people aged 65 and over, while South Korea is 26th (20.3%). By 2035 South Korea reaches 29.6% and ranks third. A rise of more than 9 percentage points in...

Investing 101

JPMorgan bought more than 5% of four chip-parts makers... what can a '5% filing' tell us?

JPMorgan filed on Oct. 20-22 that it holds more than 5% of four Korean chip-materials and electronic-components companies, but the stated purpose in all four filings was 'passive investment', meaning it will not touch...

Global Stocks

Record money poured into a 3x chip ETF in a week prices fell. What happened to it?

In the second week of October, when chip stocks fell, the 3x chip ETF SOXL took in more than $7 billion in a single week, a record, yet through Oct. 16 the fund's price...

Korean Stocks

Meta says it will spend even more on AI, so why did Samsung Electronics fall 4%?

Meta spent more in the third quarter than its business brought in, and free cash flow turned to a $2.12 billion deficit. Markets began to doubt whether its AI spending must...

Crypto

Korea plans FX rules for stablecoins: what changes for coins sent abroad?

From Dec. 3, coins that leave through Korean exchanges for overseas exchanges or personal wallets will be reported to the Bank of Korea by 11 a.m. the next business day (draft), but coins sent directly between personal wallets are left...

Real Estate

Minors who bought homes paid over half with "their own money": where did it come from?

Minors aged 0 to 19 who bought homes by the end of August reported 56.7% of the KRW 23.1 billion (about $16.5 million) deal value as "own funds." But that box on the form is for money...

Korean Stocks

SK hynix drops U.S. listing: why shareholders objected

Shareholders opposed Solidigm's U.S. listing because issuing new shares cuts SK hynix's stake in Solidigm, and once Solidigm can be bought separately, less...

Investing 101

0.69% delinquency, a 10-year high: who is failing to repay?

Break down the 0.69% bank delinquency rate at the end of August and small corporations are at 1.10%, non-mortgage household loans at 0.91% and sole proprietors at 0.86%, far above large companies (0.39%) and mortgages (0.31%). With new delinquencies (3 trillion won, about...

Crypto

Seoul villa lease deposits hit a record: when will building restart?

Samsung's 30T won dividend: why did shares fall 4%?

Google grew sales 25%, so why did its stock fall 10%?

SK hynix memory sold out through 2029: can profit still grow?

Strategy now pays preferred dividends daily. Why?

Seoul Apartment Sales Halve in Three Months — So Why Aren't Prices Falling?

GM Leaves the NYSE After More Than 100 Years for Nasdaq — What Changes for Shareholders?

Samsung Electronics Fell on Meta's AI Spending News but Rose 4% on Anthropic's IPO Filing. Why?

Ripple wins final approval for a U.S. trust bank. What changes for RLUSD holders?

Brazil's dollar jumped 8% after the election. Why did companies buy stablecoins the day before?

Mortgages worth about $124.6 billion get new interest rates by year-end. Fixed or variable?

The won hit a two-year high. Why does the Bank of Korea still call it weak?

Goldman Sachs cut its KOSPI target from 12,000 to 9,000 but still sees 60% upside. What is the logic?

The 10 Oldest Countries, and 10 Years From Now?

JPMorgan bought more than 5% of four chip-parts makers... what can a '5% filing' tell us?

Record money poured into a 3x chip ETF in a week prices fell. What happened to it?

Meta says it will spend even more on AI, so why did Samsung Electronics fall 4%?

Korea plans FX rules for stablecoins: what changes for coins sent abroad?

Minors who bought homes paid over half with "their own money": where did it come from?

SK hynix drops U.S. listing: why shareholders objected

0.69% delinquency, a 10-year high: who is failing to repay?

4.4% interest and FDIC deposit insurance on a U.S. bank's coin: how is it different from a stablecoin?

Bitcoin ETFs drew $1B in 3 days. Why did bitcoin fall below $82K?

Songpa jeonse listings nearly halved. Why?