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Trump traded more than 1,000 securities in June: traded Berkshire, Meta, and traded Palantir many times

Comparing news, the US Government Ethics Office's latest financial disclosure shows that US President Trump carried out more than 1,000 securities transactions in June this year, totaling about 78.1 million to 263.1 million US dollars based on the disclosed transaction amount range, involving companies such as Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, Mastercard, Cintas, Palantir, Meta, and Coinbase. Among them, the biggest transaction was the sale of the Vanguard ETF worth $5 million to $25 million on June 22. Additionally, Trump bought $1 million to $5 million worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares on June 18, then sold smaller positions on June 24; he also sold $1 million to $5 million worth of Meta shares on the same day and bought it again for a smaller amount later in the month. The disclosure also revealed that Trump traded Palantir several times in June, first buying it on June 3, then selling it on June 16 and 18, and buying it again on June 23 and 24. The White House said that Trump's investments are managed by an independent agency, and there is no conflict of interest. (Bloomberg)

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The sharp decline in Korean stocks made it difficult to stop risk appetite, and retail investors switched to high-interest structured products

Comparative news, according to Kim Sook's report, an unprecedented stock market crash is driving retail investors in South Korea to switch to complex structured products. This group of risk-loving investors is still constantly looking for ways to improve returns. Equity Linked Securities (ELS), which have annualized interest rates of up to 40% to 50%, are once again popular with retail investors. In July, ELS sales rose to a three-year high, with mainly products linked to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Meanwhile, regulators are working to curb retail fervent demand for single-stock leveraged open-ended index funds. This type of product is thought to have amplified market fluctuations during the 22% drop in the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index last month. This shows that one of the largest market crashes in recent memory did little to weaken retail investors' risk appetite; it only changed the types of products they were chasing. The recent market correction seems to have created an attractive entry point for ELS products. This type of product can provide investors with coupon interest as long as the linked stock or index remains within a pre-set range. However, once the market falls sharply, such products may also face huge downside risks.

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The US Federal Trade Commission is urged to investigate AI companies' act of destroying books

Comparatively, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is being urged to investigate the acts of some AI companies obtaining AI training data by buying, scanning, and destroying books. According to an open letter obtained by Axios, more than a dozen civil society organizations are calling on the FTC to use regulatory powers to examine what large AI companies call disruptive new methods of data acquisition. Earlier, the “Washington Post” quoted court documents as reporting that Anthropic had spent millions of dollars to buy books and remove book spines to scan the pages and use them to train Claude; Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have also faced similar copyright lawsuits. These organizations want the FTC to further determine whether such actions constitute unfair competition practices. They believe that by acquiring and destroying physical books, AI companies may actually be emptying the market's key data resources. In particular, some rare books may disappear permanently as a result, while digital companies hold the last few physical copies. Relevant organizations warn that this practice of hoarding and destroying may increase competitors' data acquisition costs, while cutting off important raw materials that AI startups rely on to train models, thereby further expanding competitive barriers for leading AI companies. However, rather than requiring the FTC to restrict AI model training, they want regulators to focus on reviewing the destruction of existing works and intervene before large AI companies use this to establish a market advantage. According to the open letter, this approach is not simply a data acquisition strategy, but may become another structural means for leading AI companies to build a systemic moat that is difficult to overcome. Currently, the FTC under the Trump administration wants to maintain a relatively friendly regulatory environment for US companies, and on the other hand, it continues to release attention to market competition and the monopoly risk of large technology companies.

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The global bond market is currently selling off, and the scale of panda bond issuance has reached a record high

Comparative news. According to CCTV financial reports, the yield on long-term treasury bonds of the world's major economies has continued to rise recently, and the sell-off pressure on the bond market is heating up. However, the Chinese bond market and exchange rate have maintained a relatively smooth operation, and the scale of panda bond issuance has reached a record high for the same period in history. According to the data, as of August 21, the cumulative issuance scale of panda bonds in 2026 reached 209.975 billion yuan, an increase of over 73% over the previous year. Against the backdrop of drastic fluctuations in global bond markets, international institutions are increasing domestic RMB financing, drawing attention. According to industry insiders, we are in a completely different economic and monetary cycle than overseas. Foreign capital accounts for only about 5%-8% of China's bond market, and domestic capital has absolute pricing power. Combined with our monetary policy, we insist that I am the main focus, and overseas shocks cannot reverse the overall trend of the domestic bond market. Looking ahead to the future market, industry insiders believe that the yield on overseas bonds is likely to remain high, the allocation value of RMB bonds is prominent, and the medium to long term may welcome a continuous increase in foreign capital allocation. However, it is also important to note that higher yields on US bonds have raised the return threshold for global allocated funds, and may disrupt the will of overseas institutions to increase their holdings of RMB bonds. Furthermore, the rapid rise in bond yields in overseas developed countries may also limit domestic risk asset valuations.

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Korean retail investors flocked to US stocks to bet on SK Hynix ADR, and 1.16 trillion won capital inflows triggered a sharp premium

Comparative news, according to data from the Korea Securities Depository and Settlement Agency, South Korean retail investors are buying up their ADR (American Depositary Receipts) listed on the US NASDAQ in a big way, causing ADR to have a large premium compared to local Korean stocks. Since SK Hynix ADR was listed on NASDAQ on July 10 to August 19, Korean investors have accumulated a net purchase of SK Hynix ADR of about US$835 million (approximately 1.16 trillion won), ranking second among US stocks bought by Korean investors during the same period, accounting for 16.4% of the total net purchase amount of US stocks by Korean investors. This trend triggered the price gap between SK Hynix ADR and local Korean stocks to continue to widen. SK Hynix Korea's shares closed down 9.75% to 1.5 million won on August 19; ADR in the US market rose 0.35% to close at $156.16. Since 1 SK Hynix ADR corresponds to 0.1 shares of the Korean capital stock, theoretically, the share value after converting the ADR price should be about 10 times the ADR price. However, as of the 19th, the Korean stock price was only 6.82 times the ADR conversion price, which meant that ADR formed a premium of about 46.67% compared to the capital stock. (NATE)

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Korean retail investors are frantically betting on the recovery of the memory chip sector: 118.5 billion won in a single week to buy US memory ETFs

According to data from the Korea Securities Depository and Settlement Agency, Korean retail investors made net purchases of the “Roundhill Memory ETF” between August 14 and 20 this week, making it the second-largest net purchase of the country's overseas individual stocks and ETF investments (after Alphabet, Google's parent company). This ETF is an actively managed product, mainly investing in major memory chip companies such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron. Recently, memory chip stocks have clearly picked up. The stock prices of SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics rose 21.6% and 21.8% respectively from August 10 to 21, both exceeding the 10.4% increase of the Korea Composite Index (KOSPI) during the same period. In the US market, Micron rose about 11% over the same period, and SanDisk increased by about 32%. South Korea's domestic ETF market also saw capital inflows. The data shows that the net inflow of the “TIGER US S&P500 ETF” tracking the S&P 500 index from August 14 to 20 was 1709 billion won, and the net inflow of the “KODEX US NASDAQ 100 ETF” tracking the NASDAQ 100 index was 132.3 billion won. Market participants believe that as expectations for the recovery of the semiconductor cycle heat up, investors are increasing their allocation to the AI chip and memory chip industry chain. (Daum) This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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South Korea plans to launch a new securities market in mid-November, and the STO market is at a critical turning point

Comparatively, the Korea Exchange (KRX) plans to launch a new securities market on November 16. At that time, assets such as art, real estate, and music copyright will be traded like stocks through securities accounts. According to reports, the Korea Exchange is currently advancing the construction of relevant trading systems and preparations for market participants, and will conduct simulated trading for 6 weeks from October 6 to November 13. The official opening time may be adjusted according to the financial supervisory authority's approval process for listed products. After the market opens, investors can trade through securities company accounts, and the trading time is consistent with the stock market. Analysts believe that the securities token issuance (STO) industry in the Korean market is already at an important turning point. Although new securities listed and traded in November will be temporarily issued and registered using traditional electronic securities methods, subsequent tokenized securities based on blockchain distributed ledger issuance and management will gradually be implemented after the relevant laws are officially implemented in February 2027. (TheDailyEconomy)

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Cathie Wood: Ready for the big market, Bitcoin is still bullish to $1.5 million

Comparing news, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood said in an interview that Bitcoin is preparing for a new round of surge, and I am bullish that Bitcoin will eventually reach $1.5 million. Cathie Wood has been sticking to Bitcoin's target price of $1.5 million, even though most people initially thought she had lost her mind. The core of how the ARK Invest founder built Bitcoin's bullish logic is mainly based on three pillars: institutional adoption, fixed supply, and Bitcoin's gradual transformation into a true digital store of value. She has also stated many times that there is a specific catalyst that could significantly speed up the process of achieving this goal: the US government's purchase of Bitcoin. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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South Korea plans to open virtual asset accounts to about 3,500 companies, and the central bank plans to test AI proxy deposit tokens by the end of 2026

Comparing news, Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park said that the Korean crypto market is shifting from being driven by retail transactions to institutional digital finance. The focus of global financial institutions and enterprises has moved from tokens, exchanges, and prices to escrow, tokenization, stablecoins, payment and settlement infrastructure, and regulatory compliance. The Korea Financial Services Commission has proposed a framework to open corporate virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The National Assembly of Korea has officially passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act to incorporate tokenized real-world assets and security tokens into a unified legal framework. The Bank of Korea has completed initial testing of the Project Hangang real-world deposit token project and plans to conduct the second phase of institutional testing in late 2026. Related technical experiments have used wholesale deposit tokens to allow AI agents to execute automated conditional transactions. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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Starcloud closes a new round of funding with $250 million led by Manhattan West Ventures

Comparatively, according to TechCrunch, the space computing power startup Starcloud announced the completion of a new round of financing of 250 million US dollars, led by Manhattan West Ventures, with Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark, EQT and other institutions participating. Of these, Nvidia invested about 25 million US dollars in this round of financing. The new funding will be used to expand satellite manufacturing facilities and advance research and development of the next-generation orbital data center satellite Starcloud-3. Starcloud revealed that the company is already running the Nvidia H100 data center GPU in orbit and has completed model training based on that GPU. Currently, most space computing projects use edge computing chips, and Starcloud is collaborating with Nvidia to provide test data for future Vera Rubin Space-1 GPUs designed specifically for space environments. Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston also previously indicated plans to mine Bitcoin in space. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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