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Investing.com -- Global chip stocks tumbled on Tuesday as a broad selloff in technology shares swept from Asia through Europe and threatened to drag Wall Street lower at the open, fuelled by mounting concerns over stretched AI valuations and the prospect of higher U.S. borrowing costs.
(Bloomberg) -- South Korean stocks tumbled from a record high as investors sold off chip heavyweights, delivering another outsized swing that has become a feature of the world’s best‑performing market this year. Most Read from BloombergSpaceX Falls for Third Day, Erases $600 Billion in Market ValueOracle Cut 21,000 Jobs in 12 Months, Says AI Replaced Some RolesKorean Stocks Tumble 10% as Extreme Volatility Rattles InvestorsStocks Fall as SpaceX’s Rout Offsets US-Iran Hopes: Markets WrapMeta Inve
The world's hottest stock market fell 10% Tuesday. The tech selloff may just be getting started.
<body><p>STORY: There’s a new member of South Korea’s A-list.</p><p>Chip factory staffers are suddenly enjoying hot demand, and not just at work.</p><p>They’ve also become a very desirable commodity in the country’s competitive marriage market.</p><p>The change comes as the global AI boom sees salaries soar at top tech firms.</p><p>Some workers at Samsung’s chip division are set for bonuses of about $416,000.</p><p>That’s around 14 times South Korea’s average annual salary.</p><p>There are big payments too at arch-rival SK Hynix.</p><p>Now all that has chip workers rivalling doctors and lawyers as the nation’s most desirable partners.</p><p>Lee Sung-mi is a consultant at matchmaking agency Sunoo.</p><p>She says tech staffers now rate very highly:</p><p>"Scores for Samsung Electronics employees have recently risen from 83 to 87. As for clients who work at SK Hynix, their scores are expected to climb from around 80 to 83—showing just how highly favored the company has become."</p><p>The big payouts are also reshaping South Korea’s job market.</p><p>There too the medical and legal professions had long ranked at the top.</p><p>Now career advisers and students both say there’s hot competition to get into the tech firms.</p><p>Ambitious young people are even looking to vocational schools, since some chip jobs only need a high-school diploma.</p><p>Park Jun-young is a career consultant for university students:</p><p>"Semiconductors are arguably the only industry that can truly ride the AI boom. They've taken center stage, and the result is outsized salaries and bonuses—so much so that, in effect, it's created a different tier."</p><p>At Korea University, a semiconductor engineering course has seen admission scores hit historic highs.</p><p>And it’s drawing students who might once have aimed for medical school.</p><p>Freshman Koo Bon-ho is one.</p><p>"I chose semiconductor engineering major because I figured campus life would be a bit easier than in medical school, the internships wouldn't be as long, and since I wanted to get a job quickly and enter the workforce."</p><p>With chips accounting for around 40% of the country’s exports, some say it’s time the tech workers got their due.</p><p>Right now, staffers at Samsung and SK Hynix are certainly reaping the financial and romantic rewards of the AI boom.</p></body>
Asian equities fluctuated Tuesday following a tech-led sell-off on Wall Street as investors again questioned a long-running AI-fuelled boom, while crude largely held losses that came on the back of positive US-Iran talks.Tech firms -- the main driver of a surge across world markets as investors pile into all things AI -- took a hit in Asia.
SEOUL, June 23 (Reuters) - The global AI boom has turned South Korean chipmaking giants SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics into stock market darlings. It has also thrust their employees into the top tier of the country's highly competitive marriage market.
Losses for Korean memory chipmakers fueled AI trade doubts, piling further pressure on techs even amid progress in US-Iran talks.
Shares of memory chips maker Micron (NASDAQ:MU) jumped 4.8% in the afternoon session after two more major Wall Street price target upgrades arrived ahead of its fiscal Q3 earnings report later in the week.
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, June 22 (Reuters) - Global stocks were mixed on Monday — optimism over Middle East peace talks lifted Asia and Europe, while tech and interest-rate jitters weighed
Micron (MU) stock hit a new all-time high on Monday after the company's deal with Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) was announced. Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré takes a closer look in the video above.
Micron (MU) stock hit a new all-time high on Monday after the company's deal with Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) was announced. Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré takes a closer look in the video above.
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Memory chipmaker SK Hynix (000660.KS) has accelerated ahead to become South Korea's most valuable company with a market cap of $1.36 trillion. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley discusses SK Hynix's gains resulting from the memory chip rally.
US futures were pointing higher at the start of the week as investors return from the Juneteenth holiday weekend, with technology stocks expected to lead gains despite lingering uncertainty over the Middle East and the prospect of further Federal Reserve tightening. Dow Jones futures were up...
Micron stock keeps rising with memory-chip prices but ING warns Chinese competition could eventually curb the gains.
SK Hynix (USOTC:HXSCL) reached a significant milestone on Monday as its market value overtook that of Samsung Electronics (USOTC:SSNHZ), making the memory chip manufacturer the most valuable publicly traded company in South Korea. Shares of SK Hynix climbed 3.
U. S. stock index futures recovered part of their earlier losses on Monday after signs of progress emerged from diplomatic discussions between Iran and the United States, easing concerns about renewed tensions in the Middle East.
Memory-chip maker SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to become South Korea’s most valuable company amid the AI-driven chip boom.
<body><p>STORY: :: SK Hynix</p><p>SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable listed company.</p><p>Shares in what is now the world's most valuable memory chipmaker closed 5.6% higher to bring the company's market capitalization to $1.35 trillion. </p><p>That was fractionally ahead of Samsung Electronics, which had held the top spot since 2000.</p><p>:: SK Hynix</p><p>Now Hynix gets the bragging rights as AI continues to reshape the global semiconductor industry.</p><p>It also marks the one of the biggest turnarounds in South Korea's corporate history.</p><p>In 2002, the then-Hynix Semiconductor was on the verge of collapse, having been crippled by debt.</p><p>By 2003 it was viewed as a penny stock.</p><p>Today, SK Hynix has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global AI boom, propelling a more than 340% rally in its shares this year.</p><p>It is a dominant supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI systems for customers such as Nvidia and Alphabet's Google.</p><p>Samsung said that any calculation of its market capitalization should include preferred shares, by which metric it would still be top dog. </p></body>
SK Hynix shares rose 5.6% in Seoul trading on Monday, pushing its market capitalization to $1.35 trillion.
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