South Korea's foreign exchange authority said FX market supply-demand dynamics will shift in H2 2026, and it expects exporters' dollar holdings to flow into the market via FX forward contracts.

On the 9th a domestically built smart-compute cluster exceeding 10,000 accelerator cards went live in Shaoguan as part of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area hub. Total investment is 5.5 billion yuan; the facility deploys 11,520 Ascend domestic AI accelerator cards, delivering aggregate compute of 9,000P and performance described as internationally leading. The cluster is part of the national integrated compute network’s GBA hub and is intended to serve the region’s AI industry by linking domestic chips, operating systems and algorithm frameworks to complete the compute-to-application ecosystem and promote scale adoption of domestic chips and training frameworks, a step the operator says marks big-model R&D entering a “compute autonomy” phase.

克里姆林宫：俄罗斯总统普京与美国总统特朗普尽管存在一些分歧，但仍进行建设性对话。