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KB Securities is a South Korean brokerage and investment bank, part of KB Financial Group, offering equity research, trading and asset management services.
Korea Exchange activated a buy-side sidecar on KOSDAQ at 12:55 p.m. Friday as the index rose 5.27% to 800.90, a day after closing down 7.65%. That recovers about 64% of the point loss; the reports do not include turnover data to test the liquidity case.
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Koscom has signed memorandums with 13 securities firms on a shared tokenization platform ahead of Korea's Feb. 4, 2027 rules. Four brokers named in the same report are working through their own builds or outside partners, so the case for shared infrastructure is unproven.
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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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Five bond ETFs took in $24.89 billion in the month to Oct. 8, level with the $24.88 billion that went into two S&P 500 funds, according to Koscom data. Most of the bond money went to aggregate and municipal funds that lost between 2% and 3.3%, so investors are buying duration alongside stocks priced at 19 times forward earnings.
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Naver and Brookfield are negotiating up to $9 billion of financing for a $10 billion expansion of Naver's Sejong AI data center to 200 megawatts. Korean banks weighing a share have to judge what about 100,000 Nvidia GPUs will be worth years into a loan.
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The board approved up to 125 trillion won for this year, but three quarters of a three-year program lands in one payment. The "megacycle" that follows is a forecast, not a policy.
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Securitize shares rose nearly 8% to about $12.60 after it agreed with LG CNS to build tokenized funds and stablecoins for Korean institutions. Each planned product still needs regulatory sign-off under a law that takes effect Feb. 4, 2027.
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KOSPI rose 1.95% to 6,971.35 on October 1 as Korea's September chip exports hit a record $60.3 billion, reversing a yield-driven early dip. The session shows chip news can beat US rate pressure for a day. How long it can keep doing so depends on how long the memory shortage lasts.
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Brokerages raised Samsung Electro-Mechanics' third-quarter profit forecast about 30% in three months, to 605 billion won, as the won strengthened. With lines 91% utilized in June, much of the gain has to come from shortage pricing on AI parts.
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At least six overseas blockchains signed payment and tokenization deals with Korean banks, brokerages and asset managers in the 93 days to Sept. 23. Many are still memorandums or pilots, and Shinhan Asset Management alone works with three of the networks, so Korean buyers are keeping their options open.
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Financial authorities are negotiating a formal bar on margin trading by investors under 19, after KB, Samsung and Shinhan each stopped it on their own schedules. Credit loans to buy shares rose 713 billion won in the week investor deposits fell 10.2 trillion.
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Zeus: God of Arrogance is the developer's first hit in twelve years by the brokerage's count. The 42,000 won target sits about 26 percent above a share price that closed down 0.89 percent on the day the report went out.
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Core CPI at 0.3% for August pushed futures to 86% from 69% on a September Fed hike, and Seoul's open took SK hynix down 5.24% to 1.717 million won. Philadelphia's semiconductor index had closed 1.81% higher on the 11th.
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The Series C funds a retrieval and citation layer rather than a model. A Saudi government-backed deployment is the only enterprise proof on offer, and Liner supplied most of the rest.
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Korea's index opened up 2.15% and closed down 1.55% because the U.S. 30-year hit a 19-year high. Nvidia's Ohio residual-value guarantee is the same trade in different clothing.
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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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