The KOSPI Index has entered the longest bull market in decades. After bottoming at KRW 2,132 in 2022, it has jumped by 295% to the current KRW 8,476. It has jumped by 100% this year and by 215% in the last 12 months. So, the question is whether the blue-chip index will continue the bull
Oil prices in May experienced extreme volatility as uncertainty about the US-Iran ceasefire kept the market on edge. Even as Brent crude prices had climbed more than $110 per barrel earlier this month, the benchmark contract could not sustain the high levels for long. Crude futures cooled in May as hopes for a US–Iran deal
Overview: Bitcoin is extending its weekly decline, with losses approaching 5% over the past several trading sessions as bearish sentiment continues to weigh on the market. The cryptocurrency is currently trading close to its April lows around the 73,000 level, reflecting growing selling pressure after its recent rejection from monthly highs near 82,500. The inability
Sui faced a sharp technical disruption on May 28, 2026, when the network stopped producing blocks for nearly six hours. The incident came shortly after a protocol upgrade, with reports pointing to a bug in the Sui 1.72 release that triggered a validator consensus failure. During the outage, transaction processing across the blockchain came to
Middle East tensions, driven by US-Iran conflict, trigger energy-related inflation fears, central bank hawkishness, and volatile, diverging safe-haven market reactions. Volatile Geopolitics and the US-Iran Conflict The primary driver of current market sentiment is the precarious and fluctuating state of the US-Iran relationship. While there remains a persistent undercurrent of market optimism regarding a potential
Global commodity markets are entering one of their most unstable periods in decades, according to a new analysis from Elev8 broker. The report examines how the escalation of the Iran–Israel conflict into direct military confrontation involving the United States may be reshaping two of the world’s most important markets: oil and gold. Elev8 argues that
The focus remains on the Middle East, even as the situation becomes increasingly unclear. Reports of progress from the U.S. government and denials from Iran are now coming in at ever-shorter intervals. However, as expected, the price of oil appears to be stabilizing at a lower, more comfortable level, and with it, the bond markets.
Stellar (XLM) has staged a powerful market breakout, decoupling from the broader crypto sector to surge over 14% in the last 24 hours. While major assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum remain under pressure due to renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a wider “risk-off” environment that has liquidated nearly $1 billion in positions,
Bitcoin cryptocurrency can be expected to fall to the next round support level 70000.00 (which stopped the previous correction ii). Bitcoin broke support zone Likely to test support level 70000.00 Bitcoin cryptocurrency recently broke through the support zone lying between the key support level 74800.00 (which has been reversing Bitcoin from the middle of April,
Shares of Dollar Tree DLTR surged on Thursday after the discount retailer reported stronger-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings, raised its full-year profit outlook, and announced a new delivery partnership with DoorDash. Dollar Tree stock jumped roughly 17% during trading, putting the shares on pace for their best single-day performance in nearly four years. The rally followed