According to HKET, The Korea Herald and UDN Money, Japan's Nikkei 225 reversed early gains and stood at 61,364.59 as of 04:33 UTC, down 824.04 points, or 1.33%, after rising as much as 465 points in early trade. Advantest fell 11.69% and Tokyo Electron declined 8.93%, while Sony gained 6.43%. Seoul's KOSPI was at 5,436.45 as of 04:31 UTC, down 247.35 points, or 4.35%. The Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar at 10:16 a.m. local time, suspending program trading for five minutes after the index fell 4.67% to 5,418.15, as the Democratic Party's U.S. midterm victory raised concerns over tighter regulation of artificial intelligence data centers. Samsung Electronics fell 6.19% and SK Hynix dropped 8.81%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 739 points to 24,659 at the half-day close, after opening 397 points higher at 24,316 and climbing as high as 24,749. The Hang Seng Tech Index gained 4.8% to 4,124. Meituan rose 8%, Alibaba and Xiaomi each added 7%, Tencent gained more than 5% and HSBC rose 4%, while Lenovo fell more than 7% and PetroChina declined 3% as oil prices slid. Taiwan's TAIEX was at 41,815.67 as of 04:32 UTC, down 1,133.24 points, or 2.64%, after opening 282.78 points lower at 42,666.13 and falling below the 42,000 mark. MediaTek fell 5.25% and TSMC eased 0.44%. The New Taiwan dollar weakened more than 0.14 against the U.S. dollar, nearing the 33 level. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.10% to 3,689.79 at the midday break, the Shenzhen Component Index gained 1.44% to 11,498.77 and the CSI 300 added 0.36% to 4,115.93, as of 04:32 UTC.

Yields on short-term debt issued by Chinese banks fell to a record low after the People's Bank of China made the overnight repo rate its primary policy anchor, a shift markets viewed as de facto easing, according to Bloomberg.

Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan hinted that the platform may eventually offer tokenized products tied to shares of major companies. According to Odaily, Yan traveled to London to meet policymakers, and the platform’s core contributors reportedly hold at least 238 million HYPE tokens, almost certainly including Yan. He declined to disclose his personal net worth, saying he had not deliberately pursued a specific wealth figure. Yan said tokenized stock products could create markets with more liquidity than traditional stock markets, but added that future developments were difficult to predict because third parties play an important role in the platform’s product offerings.

Moonshot AI has launched Kimi Hosted Agents. According to Odaily, the service provides enterprises and developers with cloud-hosted Harness infrastructure for running agents, removing the need to build and maintain their own runtime framework. It offers a 24/7 managed environment for long-running tasks and collaboration among multiple agents.

Geopolitical conflicts and trade tensions are accelerating the rerouting of global commerce, said Deborah Elms, head of trade policy at the Hinrich Foundation, according to Bloomberg. Corporate diversification and friend-shoring efforts will continue, she said, but may not guarantee supply-chain stability.

French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirmed that a cyberattack enabled fraudulent transfers from its account, which were converted into crypto through specialized platforms. ZachXBT estimated losses at more than $133 million, and the bank validated the order of magnitude without confirming a final figure, according to The Block. The bank said Wednesday that customer assets were unaffected, the incident had been contained and some stolen funds had been blocked. ZachXBT first publicly flagged the exploit on Nov. 2 and said losses could rise because the attack unfolded over several days.

The Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the US midterm elections, sweeping both houses of Congress and unleashing a long-awaited blue wave. However, the fate of A-shares and US stocks is not the same.

Arthur Hayes: Every major central bank, monetary and fiscal authority will print money to avert a crisis. That would be incredibly lucrative for Bitcoin and crypto hodler. But be patient.

Anthropic, OpenAI, IPO, computing power, financing. Anthropic's IPO has not been withdrawn, but the shrinking trillion-dollar AI bubble has scared Wall Street. Golden Finance: The largest IPO in tech history, is the bubble about to burst?

Bitcoin recovered above $80,000 following the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections, but the political shift could complicate the cryptocurrency industry's efforts to secure clearer federal regulations.

OpenAI has added GIF creation to ChatGPT with its new Images 2.6 release, letting users turn a prompt or photo into an animation they can speed up, edit frame by frame and share. The update, launched on 4 November 2026, also brings faster image generation and two new developer models, though some accounts have yet to receive the GIF feature.

Regardless of who is in power, the US government will not stop printing money, which foreshadows a significant rise in the prices of various assets. Gold and Bitcoin are the most obvious examples, while money printing also benefits stocks and other major asset classes.

Analysis of the Democratic Party's sweep of both houses of Congress in the 2026 US midterm elections and its global strategic impact.

Binance, Bybit, hacker attack, cryptocurrency, North Korean hackers launch a fierce attack on the crypto world. Golden Finance: The openness and freedom of the crypto world always comes at a price, with someone silently bearing the consequences.

OpenAI announced its acquisition of Pierre, stating that the acquisition is to accelerate a vision of making Codex a place where teams build software together with AI.

Based on historical experience, the recent attack on Binance and the theft of Bitcoin will not have a lasting impact on the market. This conclusion precisely reflects the core characteristics of Bitcoin.