Samsung Electronics co-CEO Roh Tae-moon bought 3,000 shares at KRW210,000 apiece, spending KRW630 mln and raising his holdings to 127,280 shares from 124,280, YONHAP reported. The purchase came amid a recent sharp share-price decline after the US midterm elections and was seen as a signal of responsible stewardship.

CFTC: For the week ended Nov. 3, speculative net short positions in natural gas across the four major NYMEX and ICE contracts rose by 23,133 contracts to 219,265 contracts.

The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has launched the fourth batch of national trade secret protection innovation pilots. Since the program began in 2022 SAMR has designated four batches covering 61 pilot regions. The pilots aim to shift protection from awareness-raising to development support and from isolated innovation to system-level governance, yielding more than 450 institutional measures across priority sectors including internet, integrated circuits, biopharma and artificial intelligence and progressively strengthening the trade secret protection framework. National market regulators have also stepped up administrative enforcement; in the first three quarters of 2026 they handled 108 trade-secret infringement cases, with enforcement effectiveness improving.