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South Korean brokerage within Hana Financial Group, providing trading, asset management, and investment banking services.
Counterpoint Research estimates global smartphone shipments fell about 20% year on year in the third quarter, the weakest since 2012. Retail prices rose roughly 20% this year as makers passed higher memory costs to buyers, Korea JoongAng Daily reported.
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Mirae Asset's top-return traders made SK hynix their most net-bought stock by 11 a.m. on the 14th, after a 10.09% fall and a 5.46% KOSPI drop. The same group ranked it fifth in net selling the session before, so the signal is one morning at one brokerage.
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KOSPI fell 3.65% to 6,384.24 on Monday, a fourth straight losing session, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix each down more than 4%. Whether their buybacks are over rests on one Hana Securities analyst's hedged note.
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Hong Kong was the second-largest foreign net buyer of Korean stocks through August at 6.45 trillion won, per FSS estimates. Hana Securities' omnibus accounts are one route into that total, and the report does not size their share.
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A Dutch court barred the manufacture, sale and import of Keytruda SC in eight European countries on Oct. 8, citing Halozyme's EP622 patent. Hana Securities says the order is not a final judgment on validity and could be overturned.
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Kyobo and KB Securities expect KT&G to post record third-quarter operating profit of 496.8 billion to 515.5 billion won. The 18.7 billion won gap between them is a dispute over margins that bears on the dividend-led return policy due early next month.
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South Korea's government wants authority to move a tax windfall of more than 60 trillion won into a new fund while the Bank of Korea is raising rates. Whether the money repays deficit bonds or feeds fund spending will help decide how far rates have to rise.
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The board set the ratio on book net assets and a December 17 shareholder vote. Holders end up owning two separately priced Korean tech balance sheets instead of one.
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Five Korean retail subscription books open across four days from the 14th. Bigwave Robotics sets its final price on the 14th, one day before Brills stops taking institutional orders for a second robot automation deal.
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Astra costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, both up the same 2.5 times, so the only way to hold spend flat is 60 percent fewer tokens. The capability being priced is the one rated Critical.
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Seven-month exports reached $414.36 million, but a hydrogel line costs roughly $360,000 and needs 20 to 30 trained workers. Yield per line, not demand, is the variable worth underwriting.
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Ten firms booked 10.26 trillion won of first-half net profit and hired accordingly. The same rate cycle that funds the trading desks is repricing household debt.
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Hana Securities took SK Inc. to 770,000 won from 560,000 won. Nearly every input is external: memory pricing, a Doosan cheque, a Supreme Court docket and a tax clause.
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iM Securities took its JYP target down 25% to 60,000 won on TWICE renewals and Stray Kids enlistments. The shares closed at 41,050 won, well below the 70,000-won range they traded at early in the year.
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Korean brokerages have tied retail pay so tightly to individual sales results that a trading boom now pays front-line contract staff many times what the people running the firms take home.
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