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Many Bank of Japan officials prefer to hold at 1.25% on October 29-30, sources told Reuters, according to CNA. Against inflation near 2%, that leaves real borrowing costs about 0.75 points below zero.
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Seoul's Kospi fell 7.57% to 5,554.22 on Thursday, tripping a sidecar and a 20-minute circuit breaker as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix sank. The reports carry prices and flows but no valuations, and say nothing about whether chip shares were overpriced.
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Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song told parliament on Oct. 12 that hikes to 3% in July and August bought time against financial risks. The BOK also said it will determine the timing and pace of additional hikes, with its next meeting on Oct. 22.
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UNDP's No Time to Recover report says governments shielding up to 130 million of the world's poorest from high oil prices are running out of money. With conditions expected to worsen into spring, the cost of $100 oil is moving from state budgets onto households.
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South Korea's won rose for a fifth straight session to 1,338.5 per dollar on Oct. 8 even as foreigners sold about 2 trillion won of Korean shares. Seoul Economic Daily credits exporters converting chip-export dollars, so the rally holds only as long as that selling outweighs a firmer greenback.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said an energy shock, record public debt and the AI boom threaten global growth, with Brent crude back above $100. For 2027 plans, the firmer signal is expensive money: US and UK government yields are above 5% while UK household spending holds up.
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The People's Bank of China has now left its benchmark lending rates alone through 16 monthly fixings, and its governor is presenting weaker loan growth as the economy's normal state. Demand forecasts built on a coming cut need another input.
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Individuals net sold 459.8 billion won across five semiconductor ETFs in the first eleven days of September and put 90.1 billion won into the gold, nuclear, battery and power funds credited with the rotation.
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Three seized domains and a roughly 390-item indicator list arrive with no named bank victim, so any institution running the listed products has to answer a multi-year exposure question out of whatever logs it happened to keep.
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Totan Research puts a Bank of Japan hike at 93%, which turns the repricing of yen-funded AI positions from a threat into a date, and the 176 basis points between Tokyo and Washington is what the trade has to cover.
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Gallup has Lee Jae-myung at 42% approval with housing named by 27% of those who disapprove, which fattens the regulatory tail on Korean property just as the Bank of Korea hikes for a second month and Seoul moves to restructure 6.3 trillion won of arrears.
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The August 26 advisory, written with the NSA and Cyber National Mission Force, describes QTFY running its own scanning, proxying and botnet platforms since 2018. Commodity indicator feeds will not find it.
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Consensus asks Nvidia for a 16% sequential step and July core PCE for exactly 3.3%, while the Bank of Korea is expected to upgrade growth into the 3% range. Positioning now owns all three.
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The won closed at 1,397.7 on the 19th, down 14.1 in a session, even as the U.S. 30-year yield hit its highest since 2007. Exporter flow, not rate differentials, set the price.
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HUG and MOLIT's three-party lease has the state hold the tenant's deposit and pay the landlord monthly. The counterparty risk does not disappear; it changes address.
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SpaceX alone took 42% of global IPO money in the first half. For everyone else, the window is narrower than the headline number suggests, and the 30-year Treasury is at 5.32%.
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Individual investors on the KRX Gold Market turned net buyers for the first time since May, but only after bullion futures had already added 9%. The flow is a read on Fed expectations, arriving late.
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