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Why do companies go public, and where does the money go: the most realistic explanation of the stock market

When a company goes public, it suddenly has money. This sentence is half right and half wrong. That is exactly where most retail investors get confused. When a company lists...

How retail investors can grow their money amid inflation and a plunging won

Korean stocks, especially export-oriented companies, can act as a hedge through currency gains when the won is weak, and as an inflation hedge their pricing power...

The great bank deposit “exodus”: money flowing into crypto and stocks kicks off a financial “Game of Thrones”

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...

Samsung Electronics at “240,000 won” for real? The “supercycle” continues as top price targets rise

최근 삼성전자를 향한 글로벌 투자업계의 시각이 유례없이 뜨겁습니다. 한동안 10만 원대 박스권에 갇혀 있던 목표주가가 최근 외국계 투자은행인 맥쿼리 증권을...

Great dividends, stagnant price: the structural reasons preferred shares fail to rise

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...

China's double game with 190,000 hidden Bitcoin: banned on the surface, buying in full behind the scenes

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...

SpaceX's $1.5 trillion IPO bombshell: buy the space Starlink has swallowed now

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...

Bitcoin fear index below 10: the buying moments history proved could change your life

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...

America's exit from the global order and its fixation on resources are redrawing the energy and dollar map

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 puts Google's brain into Siri: how a $1 billion AI alliance is shaking up the market

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...

Why even Morgan Stanley, Wall Street's money machine, built a Bitcoin ETF

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...

“Retail dumped, institutions scooped it up”: who really sold and who bought in the past six months of the crypto slump?

최근 6개월 동안 코인 시장은 “체감 하락”이 아니라 “숫자 하락”이었습니다. 비트코인은 2025년 10월 고점이 12만6천 달러를 넘긴 뒤, 11월 저점...

Why dividend stocks are suddenly hot: the separate taxation of dividend income that moved even companies that never paid dividends

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....

Why treasury share cancellations and dividend tax relief are being discussed together: the Korean stock market's focus has shifted

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 countdown to the "2027 crypto tax": will 16 million voters stop it?

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,...

"Is $100,000 Bitcoin just the trailer?" The explosive roadmap for the top 5 coins that became "U.S. strategic assets" in 2026

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...

"Breaking $2 is just the start?" The "real fuel" behind XRP's surge is ETFs, regulation and the roadmap

최근 XRP 상승은 단순 펌핑이라기보다 (1) 미국 현물 XRP ETF 자금 유입, (2) SEC 이슈 해소로 인한 규제 리스크 축소,...

"Is KRW 160,000 next?" Samsung Electronics hits another record high, and the "real reason" the market has started recalculating

삼성전자가 12만 원 선을 넘어선 데 이어 사상 최고가를 다시 한 번 경신했다.이제 시장의 질문은 더 이상 “12만전자가 가능할까”가 아니다.삼성전자의...

The eerie reason Tesla and Bitcoin move together like a couple

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...

"Retail sold, Tether bought: the real hand that has kept Bitcoin from a 'collapse bottom'"

왜 ‘테더 매수 이후’를 따로 봐야 할까? 비트코인 시장에는 수많은 매수 주체가 있다.하지만 **테더(Tether)**는 성격이 다르다. 이런 플레이어의 매수는**“상승 베팅”이...

What are Samsung and Coinbase aiming for with their relationship?

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...

"It bought on the dip" — Is Tether's Bitcoin buying a sign of a price bottom?

테더, 가격 하락 국면에서 비트코인을 사들였다 테더(Tether)는 2025년 4분기 동안 약 8,888 BTC를 추가 매수하며 비트코인 보유량을 늘렸다.중요한 점은 매수...

After Dunamu–Naver comes Mirae Asset–Korbit: why traditional finance is heading into crypto

1. 현 상황 정리: 왜 ‘미래에셋–코빗’인가 국내 가상자산 시장에서 가장 의미 있는 변화는**거래량이 아니라 ‘주체의 변화’**입니다. 이 두 사례의 공통점은...

"Why do Korean investors go to overseas exchanges?" The structural limits and hidden strengths of Korea's crypto market

1. 한국 투자자 자금은 왜 해외로 이동할까 최근 몇 년간 한국 가상자산 투자자들의 거래 중심은국내 거래소에서 해외 거래소·해외 서비스 활용으로...