August 25, 2026
Stories from this day
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Economy · 3 min readKOSPI closes at 6,696.96 on August 24, 2026 — Samsung falls 8.7%
Index — KOSPI 6,696.96, down 215.99 points (-3.12%), below 6,700. KOSDAQ went the opposite way, up 1.42% to 813.33
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Economy · 3 min readS&P 500 closes at 7,652.86 on August 24, 2026 — only the Dow rose
Indexes — S&P 500 7,652.86 (-0.28%), Nasdaq 25,980.19 (-0.76%), Dow 53,417.16 (+0.26%). They split
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Economy · 3 min readWTI settles at $84.89 on August 24, 2026 — down as sanctions landed
Settlements — WTI $84.89 (-2.5%), Brent $92.06 (-2.5%). Friday's were $87.06 and $94.39
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Tech · 3 min readNvidia pays Poolside $6bn — the company selling the chips will now build the models
Size — $6bn license plus $1bn investment. Poolside was valued at $12bn pre-money
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World · 4 min readUS launches 'Operation Economic Outcast' on August 24 — five sectors, about 60 targets
Name — Operation Economic Outcast. Bessent had trailed it as an 'economic D-Day'
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Issues · 3 min readLee Jae-myung approval falls to 40.2% — a sixth straight weekly decline
Numbers — approval 40.2% (-2.8pt), disapproval 56.9% (+2.8pt). Lowest of his term, sixth straight weekly fall
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Economy · 4 min readWhat program trading is — the pipe that moves trillions of won in one session
Definition — 15 or more KOSPI 200 names ordered simultaneously from one account. A regulatory category, not a synonym for algo trading
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Tech · 4 min readWhat a licensing deal is — buying the technology and the people, leaving the company standing
Structure — technology licence, plus hiring the engineers, plus a minority stake. The company stays
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Issues · 5 min readHow approval-rating polls work — why ARS and live interviews give different numbers
Method — ARS uses a recorded voice and buttons; live interviews use a person and speech. This is the biggest single source of divergence
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Tech · 5 min readAI training vs inference — why the same GPU gets used twice
Training — the model changes. Backpropagation makes it heavy. The metric is throughput