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The total market capitalization of Korea-listed companies has surged 74% this year to $4.59 trillion, while Canada’s has climbed about 7% to $4.5 trillion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Samsung Electronics Co., which recently crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark, and SK Hynix Inc. have both more than doubled this year as their dominance in the AI chip segment …
The full charges explained: https://t.co/F0nZFvoFbW — Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 15, 2026 🚨BREAKING🚨 South Korea just sentenced Johnny Somali to 6 months in a labor camp!😂 pic.twitter.com/YcsWbyCeHN — David Santa Carla 🦇 (@TheOnlyDSC) April 15, 2026 Johnny Somali has been sentenced to prison with labor in South Korea, putting an end to the streamer’s legal saga …
by Michael Even the mainstream media is now openly admitting that shortages are coming. But right now I am seeing so much apathy about the war in the Middle East and the global supply chain disruptions that are happening right in front of our eyes. So many people seem to be convinced that the war …
Reporter’s summation of today’s episode from Frontline Africa news podcast: Five things you should take away from this episode. The number one thing is that this is now a four-front war. Iran from the east, Hezbollah from the north, the Houthis from Yemen in the south, the Iraqi militias hitting American targets across the Middle …
If Asia’s biggest energy importers are already scrambling, the global fuel shock may only be getting started. BREAKING: China has just told their largest oil refiners to SUSPEND exports of diesel and gasoline. This is NOT good. — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 5, 2026 BREAKING: An oil tanker has been hit by a "large explosion" …
Stan Druckenmiller’s current positions: – LONG Korea + Japan (+ Brazil)– LONG Copper (AI + tight supply)– LONG Gold (geopolitics)– SHORT Bonds Portfolio is no longer "AI-driven". He’s bearish on the Dollar but bullish on the US economy with disinflationary growth. pic.twitter.com/P9GfIB97EP — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 27, 2026 Druckenmiller once said, “Skate to where …
The AI boom is fueling the South Korean economy: South Korea exports surged +47% YoY in the first 20 days of February, the strongest reading in at least 2 years byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
As the US Forces Korea (USFK) conducted a large-scale aerial training exercise over the West Sea, a situation emerged on the 19th where US and Chinese forces faced off near the Korean Peninsula after China scrambled fighter jets in response. According to multiple military sources familiar with the matter, over 10 USFK F-16 fighter jets …
Investors are currently sitting on cash levels of just 3.3 percent, the lowest point in years, which means there is no dry powder left to sustain this rally. This extreme positioning exposes a massive vulnerability where any slight negative catalyst will trigger a stampede for the exits. Korea is now imploding. Check the box. pic.twitter.com/GeJkQAeAT1 …
ah yes, the renowned communist hellscape of Seoul, South Korea https://t.co/IgVyDOmvid — tea ☕️ (@realteaemoji) November 24, 2025
South Korea economy: pic.twitter.com/osdvcez9WU — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 30, 2025 “South Korea has agreed to pay the USA 350 Billion Dollars for a lowering of the Tariff’s charged against them by the United States. Additionally, they have agreed to buy our Oil and Gas in vast quantities, and investments into our Country by wealthy …
South Korea this week will host leaders from major Pacific Rim economies, including the United States, China and Japan, for an annual summit that has long championed free trade. (AP video shot by: Yong Ho Kim)
The United States is falling behind in manufacturing. We have less than a third as many manufacturing robots per 10,000 factory workers than South Korea. byu/MajesticBread9147 inEconomyCharts My chart is per 10,000 manufacturing workers so it isn’t just a chart of the largest manufacturing industries h/t MajesticBread9147
#recession … #GFC3 South Korea $USD #Liquidity Squeeze edition https://t.co/DeDvoB9pIT — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) September 29, 2025 Japan 🗾 $USD #Liquidity 📉 👀https://t.co/eXFm0cD6Rn pic.twitter.com/H1dDKVdnRv — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) September 30, 2025 Oops! 👇🏼 https://t.co/qW1QqOZzfH — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) September 30, 2025
“We have in Japan it’s $550 billion, South Korea’s $350 billion. That’s upfront,” Trump told reporters on Thursday Japan has said they will make investments based on U.S. projects, rather than paying upfront. Japan says the investments should be made ‘from time to time’ until the end of Trump’s term in January 2029. Japan intended …
South Korea wants to modernize the US navy South Korea proposed a shipbuilding project worth tens of trillions of won to US during the tariff negotiations, Yonhap News says, citing unidentified sources. South Korea’s Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan explained the shipbuilding industry cooperation proposal, the so-called “Make American Shipbuilding Great Again (MASGA),” during the negotiations …
South Korea has passed a bill banning the use of mobile phones and smart devices during class hours in schools – becoming the latest country to restrict phone use among children and teens. The law, which comes into effect from the next school year in March 2026, is the result of a bi-partisan effort to …
Don’t expect this two-minute clip to repeat on CNN or MSNBC. “And one thing that I would like that I wanted to say to you is that America’s role, not as a keeper of peace, but a maker of peace, is emerging more evidently.” “Many wars in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and in the …
It is a blackout. Thirteen nations have turned off the flow of mail to the United States. Germany. The UK. Australia. India. Sweden. Denmark. Italy. France. Austria. Switzerland. Korea. Japan. Thailand. No press release. No explanation. Just silence and severed logistics. The lifelines of commerce and family vanish overnight, and no one in Washington seems …
The world is unraveling. A democracy is under siege, not by tanks, not by foreign armies, but by the instruments of its own government. And the United States is watching — not with concern, but with threats. The machinery of economic leverage has replaced diplomacy. Truth and law are being buried beneath the roar of …
🚨BREAKING: BLACKROCK JUST DUMPED $548M WORTH OF $BTC WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK pic.twitter.com/gtOsGtuDy2 — Rekt Fencer (@rektfencer) August 19, 2025 https://x.com/i/trending/1957725871584006168/normal For second day in a row, Koreans dump crypto at the open — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 19, 2025 JUST IN: Fidelity sells 17,536.56 $ETH worth $74.3 million. pic.twitter.com/CKtt5QVtvw — Whale Insider (@WhaleInsider) August 19, …
South Korea has made it clear: most of the $350 billion it pledged in U.S. investment will be loans and guarantees, not equity. Direct investment makes up less than 5 % of the total fund. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/korea-expects-less-than-5-of-350-billion-us-fund-as-investment Japan’s negotiator Akazawa added fuel to the skepticism, saying trade agreements with both the U.S. and EU are still not formalized, …
The EU has completely f*cked Europe. Only one European car makes it into the top 10 best-selling vehicles worldwide. No European company in the global top 10 of tech. No European search engine. No smartphone. No operating system. No streaming platform. No social media giant. No cloud infrastructure. No semiconductor leader. What Europe produces at …
Two days of heavy rain in South Korea has killed up to four people and forced over 1,300 others to evacuate, officials said Thursday. The dead include a person whose car was buried by heaps of soil and concrete after the retaining wall of an overpass collapsed during heavy rain on Wednesday in Osan, just …
JUST IN – UK Prime Minister mistakenly shakes hands with a Korean interpreter, confusing him for the President of South Korea. pic.twitter.com/lfARp6h50B — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) June 19, 2025
South Korea’s data protection authority said on Thursday that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek transferred user information and prompts without permission when the service was still available for download in the country’s app market. The Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement that Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co Ltd did not obtain user consent …
Wow! We're seeing absolutely enormous inflows in to gold, setting new records. These are the sorts of charts that get me a bit nervous that the trade is becoming rather crowded. pic.twitter.com/l4MfgU8pzN — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) April 20, 2025 Gold just had its biggest ever ETF inflow at $8.0bn in the past week. There …
Interesting perspective, it somehow makes sense. South Korea and China are already in a demographic collapse which will be difficult to reverse. Isn’t it cute though how Paris sticks out? The French have always been so romantic. pic.twitter.com/qbW0XKl1jU — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) April 15, 2025
BESSENT PRIORITIZES U.K., AUSTRALIA, SOUTH KOREA AMONG TOP TARGETS FOR TRADE DEALS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is prioritizing new trade deals with the U.K., Australia, South Korea, India, and Japan after Trump’s latest tariffs, sources say. Bessent, now a key trade… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) April 14, 2025 BREAKING FROM THE WSJ: – Sources report …
🚨🇺🇸TRUMP: SOUTH KOREA TO RESTORE MILITARY PAYMENTS, PURSUE MASSIVE LNG & PIPELINE DEALS “I just had a great call with the Acting President of South Korea. We talked about their tremendous and unsustainable Surplus, Tariffs, Shipbuilding, large scale purchase of U.S. LNG, their… https://t.co/n5x8BocwzX pic.twitter.com/7nG1IfPUTC — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 8, 2025 Trump touts ‘great …