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South Korea’s Kospi stock index dropped more than 8% on Wednesday as doubts over massive investments in artificial intelligence once again led investors to dump shares. The latest rout was led by a plunge in shares in chipmaker SK Hynix after its operating profit in the last quarter fell short of analysts’ forecasts even though it soared sixfold to a record 60.5 trillion won ($41.2 billion). SK Hynix sank 12.6% while shares in Samsung Electronics dropped 8%.

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Well-received earnings from Unilever, Croda and GSK spurred gains on the blue-chip FTSE 100.

A sell-off in semiconductor stocks deepened on Tuesday.

South Korea's Kospi fell 10% and Nasdaq-100 futures dropped more than 1% as semiconductor names slid for a fourth session

Stock futures slipped as a slump in chip stocks broadened.

South Korea’s Kospi index plunged more than 10% on Tuesday on heavy selling of chipmaking stocks that have gyrated recently due to concerns over the sustainability of the boom in artificial intelligence. Oil prices fell more than 1%, while U.S. futures were little changed. Trading was temporarily halted as Kospi dropped to its lowest level since April as shares in chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix dropped sharply.

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Memory-chip stocks Micron and SK Hynix fell Monday after Chinese rival CXMT rocketed in its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Chip stocks tumbled as investors cut risk amid Middle East tensions and ahead of CXMT's July 27 market debut.

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The unwind in artificial intelligence and momentum stocks is entering its maturing stage and should not trigger prolonged market weakness, according to JP Morgan. The bank's equity strategists, led by Mislav Matejka, noted a challenging few weeks for AI-linked groups, with Korea's market down...

The move could set the stage for another round of the recent yo-yo trade, with weakness in Korean chip stocks spilling over to U.S. semiconductor names and vice versa.

U.S. trade regulators have launched ‌a probe into ‌Samsung Electronics' memory chips and ​products sold by Google, Nvidia, Broadcom and Super Micro Computer that use ‌them ⁠after a complaint by Netlist alleging infringement ⁠of its patents. California-based Netlist has accused Samsung ​and its ​U.S. ​units of ‌infringing its patents on dynamic random access memory, a type of chip that temporarily stores data ‌for processors ​and is a ​critical ​component in the ‌servers powering the ​AI ​boom, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) said ​on ‌Wednesday.

U.S. stocks fell as a sharp selloff in chip stocks rattled investor confidence in the artificial-intelligence trade.

ADR profit-taking, earnings concerns and foreign selling trigger a sharp Korean chip stock selloff.

<body><p>STORY: SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in trading on Monday - just days after its&nbsp;U.S. listing.</p><p>It was the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day decline on record.</p><p>Investors in Seoul cashed out of a massive share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week.</p><p>The fall in SK Hynix and rival Samsung Electronics stock led to a 9% plunge in South Korea's Kospi and triggered a 20-minute trading halt.</p><p>That was despite President Lee Jae Myung announcing government support for three major projects in chips, AI data centers and physical AI.</p><p>SK Hynix is the world's leading AI memory chipmaker.</p><p>It raised over $26 billion last week selling American Depositary Receipts priced at $149 each.</p><p>Its Korean shares have more than tripled this year.</p><p>It has become a target of global investors betting on a sustained boost to profits.</p><p>They think a shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data centers could boost its numbers.</p><p>One leading analyst said investors were profit-taking following the U.S. listing.</p><p>And further said sentiment grew cautious over SK Hynix's second-quarter earnings.</p><p>They said investors had expected shipments of the firm's HBM4 chips to rise from the second quarter.</p><p>But the increase didn't appear to have happened at scale.</p></body>

Investing.com -- Global chip stocks fell sharply Monday, led by a record one-day plunge in SK Hynix shares, as investors weighed a fresh escalation in Middle East tensions alongside mounting concerns over valuations in AI-related shares.

The nosedive helped send South Korea's Kospi almost 9% lower, which triggered a 20-minute halt in trading. Rival Samsung Electronics's stock also slumped. The decline marked an abrupt reversal in investor appetite after SK Hynix's American depositary receipts soared 13% Friday on their first trading day on the Nasdaq.

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SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in Seoul on Monday, its biggest one-day decline in nearly two decades, as investors in Seoul cashed out of a scorching share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week. The company's U.S.-listed shares dropped ‌9.2% to $152.50 in premarket trading on Monday after jumping more than 12% in its Nasdaq debut on Friday. Korean stocks extended losses after trading resumed after President Lee Jae Myung on Monday reiterated that the government would help speed up ​projects to build chip fabs in investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars, as outlined by Samsung and SK Hynix.

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