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'Clapton Festival': 3 Eric Clapton Live & Documentary Films in Theaters for 3 Consecutive Weeks from 2026-08-14, First Interview Clip Unveiled (Self-Reported in マリブ株式会社 Releases)
マリブ株式会社 announced via PR TIMES (PRTIMES#1673957, published 2026-07-25 01:28:32 JST — converted from DB metadata 2026-07-…
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Shosukabu Dot Com K.K. Announces Its 3rd Webinar for Early August 2026: Subject Is Maka Salukvadze, No. 98 on the Forbes Georgia Rich List Per the Release, Holding 6% of Georgia's 654-Store Food Chain Nikora (All Figures Self-Reported in the Company's PR TIMES Release, Not Independently Verified by This Site)
Shosukabu Dot Com K.K. (少数株ドットコム株式会社; HQ in Nerima, Tokyo; Chairman and Representative Director Yutaka Yamanaka; self-de…
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BofA Forecasts Q3 2026 DRAM Average Prices Up 21% QoQ; in the Same Week the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index Closed at 11,673.889 on 17 July 2026, Down Over 20% From Its Recent High and Into a Bear Market
Per a cnyes report dated 2026-07-19 on a Bank of America (BofA) Global Research channel check: the firm forecasts that g…
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The Same July 17, 2026: Institutions Push Back on the \"Compute Glut\" Thesis with ASML and TSMC Results, While Taiwan Stocks Plunge a Record 2,953.71 Points (Compiled from Media Reports; Not Independently Verified)
On July 17, 2026, Taiwanese financial outlet Cnyes published a round-up citing a Wedbush report, Q2 2026 results from AS…
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Taiwan's Three Financial Sectors Raised NT$221.71 Billion in H1 2026, Up 32.67% From the Same Period of 2025: Banking NT$109.4 Billion, Insurance NT$73.0 Billion (All of It Bond Issuance by Six Life Insurers, Zero From Non-Life), Securities NT$39.31 Billion — a High for at Least Since 2023 (per CNA's July 19, 2026 report citing FSC statistics; not verified with the FSC by this site)
Per a July 19, 2026 Central News Agency report by Su Szu-yun citing Financial Supervisory Commission statistics, cash ca…
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Goldman Sachs estimates 2026 US IPO proceeds could reach US$225 billion, a record high; 'bubble alarm not yet ringing' is the bank's own view (media-relayed forecast, not actual proceeds)
Taiwanese financial outlet Anue (cnyes), in a 2026-07-25 report relaying Goldman Sachs's 'Top of Mind' research, states …
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Taiwan's Audit Department certified FY2025 central government one-year-or-longer public debt outstanding at NT$6.071 trillion-plus, with the ratio below the 40.6% Public Debt Act ceiling
Core: CNA reported on 2026-07-24 (reporter Lai Yu-chen) that Taiwan's Audit Department certified FY2025 (ROC year 114) c…
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TSMC Announces an Additional US$100 Billion for Arizona, Bringing Planned Total U.S. Investment to US$265 Billion (Company Announcement of 2026-07-16; Not a Board-Approved Amount)
At its earnings conference on 2026-07-16, TSMC announced an additional US$100 billion investment in Arizona to build mor…
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Formosa Chemicals & Fibre (FCFC, TWSE:1326) Q2 2026 self-tallied consolidated results: revenue of NT$87,154.28 million rose 6.6% QoQ yet pre-tax profit of NT$7.02 billion fell NT$280 million — the structure is operating income down NT$1.2 billion (company's account: crude and petrochemical feedstock prices fell after the US and Iran reached a peace agreement in June and reopened the Strait of Hormuz, some peers cut prices, customers held back and restocked only on essential demand, and scheduled maintenance of large units cut volumes) plus non-operating net income up NT$920 million recovering most of it; after-tax profit attributable to the parent NT$6,092.50 million, EPS NT$1.04, down NT$0.03 from Q1; H1 pre-tax profit NT$14.31 billion, up NT$21.8 billion versus H1 2025, EPS NT$2.11, up NT$3.35 per share; June revenue of NT$27,666.32 million rose 1.0% MoM but volume-up/price-down (volume effect +NT$3.03 billion, price effect −NT$2.75 billion), the opposite direction of Q2's volume-down/price-up (company self-tallied, unaudited)
Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corporation (FCFC, 台化, TWSE:1326) announced its Q2 2026 self-tallied consolidated results (TWS…
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Taiwan's 13 Listed Financial Holding Companies Posted Combined H1 2026 After-Tax Profit of NT$440.875 Billion, Up 101% From H1 2025, an All-Time First-Half Record
As compiled in a Central News Agency (CNA) report dated 2026-07-15 (reporters Lu Yen-tzu and Su Szu-yun): Taiwan's 13 li…
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The Gap Ledger's Next Page: Five Corporate Releases on Japan's AI-Security Supply Side in the Two Weeks Around ChillStack's Survey Release (2026-06-25 to 2026-07-09) -- the Survey's Publisher Launched an 'MCP Server Assessment' 11 Days Before Its Own Release, AI Security Inc. Issued Two Releases in 3 Days (Handling of Digital Arts Products on 2026-07-07, a CrowdStrike Partnership on 2026-07-09), GRCS Opened an AI-Driven Penetration-Test Trial Campaign From JPY 550,000 Tax Included (First 10 Companies), and First Recon AI Launched 'AI Security Runtime' Aimed at Shadow AI -- All Five Are Corporate Press Releases, This Card Has Zero Official Anchors, and the Timing Cluster Is an Editorial Observation, Not Causation
This card is the second, deepened edition extending ANK-2026-07-06-011 (the 'gap ledger' of AI security in Japan -- Chil…
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Kissho Yamanaka (Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa) Summer Stay Plan Jul 18-Aug 31, 2026: From 25,500 Yen Per Person With Dinner and Breakfast (2 Guests/Room; Tax and Service Charge Included, 150-Yen Bathing Tax Excluded; Excl. Aug 8-16; Company Release Self-Reported, Zero Verified Official Anchors)
H.P.D. Corporation (株式会社H.P.D.コーポレーション) announced via PR TIMES (PRTIMES#1586898, published 2026-07-18 19:20:01 JST) that…
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Jensen Huang's July 2026 Japan Visit and NVIDIA's 'Physical AI' Build-Out in Japan, the Full Record: NVIDIA Announces on PR TIMES a 140 MW 'Vera Rubin AI Factory' Co-Built with Noetra (Over 13,750 Vera CPUs + Over 27,500 Rubin GPUs; the Release Says It Provides the Compute Base for METI's 'FRONTia' Project), the Cosmos Coalition Expands to Japan (Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Fujitsu and Others Declare Intent to Join), Hitachi x NVIDIA Advance HMAX, Fujitsu and Three Robot Makers 'Begin Business Studies' (First-Party Wording, Not a Signed Contract), NVIDIA Supplies Toyota with GPUs and Dev Tools -- Cnyes's Media-Layer Framings ('Physical AI National Team,' 'Meeting the Lifesaver') Presented Side by Side with 10 First-Party PR TIMES Releases (Zero Official Anchors, cross_source_count=2)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang began his Japan trip on 2026-07-15 (Cnyes media layer). This card uses 2 Cnyes reports as the me…
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Taiwan Stocks Fell 2,953.71 Points to Close at 42,671.27 on July 17, 2026 — Media Reports Call It the Largest Single-Day Point Drop on Record (not independently verified by this site with the TWSE)
Per a Storm Media after-hours flash of 2026-07-17: the TAIEX weighted index opened at 45,234.08 on July 17, 2026 and clo…
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The 'AI Employee' 62% Hoped For Was Shipped on July 6, 2026 by Survey Publisher INGAGE Itself; Effect Numbers Emerged Within Two Weeks -- Chiku Takubin Automated About 2,000 First-Response Calls per Month (All Corporate Releases, Not Independently Verified by This Site)
After the target card fixed the "AI for first response, humans for complex cases" division-of-labor thesis on July 6, 20…
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Yokosuka City's 7th YOKOSUKA e-Sports CUP: 123 teams entered under a first-ever two-division format (city-named PR TIMES release of 2026-07-18, self-reported; publisher attribution not registry-verified)
PR TIMES release, publisher \"Yokosuka City\", 2026-07-18: the 7th YOKOSUKA e-Sports CUP (high-school VALORANT) drew 123…
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EVA Air's June 2026 cargo revenue was NT$6.652 billion (NT$66.52 億), up 48.34% from the same month of 2025 and the second highest for any June on record (company figure as reported by CNA on 2026-07-09)
CNA reported on 2026-07-09 that EVA Air disclosed June 2026 cargo revenue of NT$6.652 billion, up 48.34% from the same m…
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Taiwan large-cap companies (paid-in capital NT$5 billion or more): 242 have reported June 2026 revenue — 95 grew over 25% YoY, 21 fell over 20% YoY (vs. June 2025; company self-reported, unaudited; Anue aggregation)
Per Anue's (cnyes) July 21, 2026 tally (as of 07:55 Taipei time), a cumulative 242 Taiwan-listed large-cap companies wit…
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CloudCut Vendor Kabushiki-gaisha 〇's Own Cross-Tabulation of 30 Price Changes (Feb 2025-Jul 2026, First-Party Sources Only): AWS Cut 17 of 19 (89.5%), GCP Raised 8 of 11 (72.7%); the Two Largest Hikes (EC2 Capacity Blocks) Carry No Official AWS Notice, Media-Reported Only (Vendor Tally, Not Re-Verified by This Site)
The vendor of the cloud-cost-reduction service "CloudCut" -- written literally as "株式会社〇" (Kabushiki-gaisha 〇) in the re…
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Four Taiwanese Drone Statute Bills Entered Joint Committee Review in the Legislative Yuan on July 16, 2026, with the Executive Yuan's Bill Budgeting NT$210 Billion in Special Funds (CNA reporting, not independently verified by this site)
Four Taiwanese drone statute bills entered a first joint session of the Legislative Yuan's Economics, Foreign and Nation…
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