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Asian shares climbed sharply on Friday, tracking big Wall Street gains, and oil prices slipped after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed there was a breakthrough in talks to end the Iran war. Samsung Electronics, South Korea's most valuable company, advanced 11.2%. Tokyo’s Nikkei’s 225 gained 3.5% to 66,442.95, also led by gains for technology stocks.
Asian chip stocks rebounded, capping a roller coaster week amid geopolitical volatility, concerns over inflation and worries over a bubble in artificial-intelligence-related stocks.
Industrial action by South Korean truck drivers tasked to transport concrete is raising concerns over possible delays to major semiconductor plant expansion projects by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korean media reported on Friday. The National Ready-Mixed Concrete Transport Workers' Union suspended deliveries in the Seoul metropolitan area starting on Monday, a work stoppage it said would involve around 8,000 members as it demanded higher rates and other changes. Participating union members also blocked deliveries on Thursday from two concrete plants in Pyeongtaek, halting the pouring of concrete at the construction site for Samsung Electronics' chip plant, the Chosun Ilbo reported.
Theker, a Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised $85 million in a fundraising round, it said on Thursday, highlighting ongoing growth in the Spanish tech sector. Theker says it develops robots which use AI to perform various tasks in industrial environments. The fundraising round was led by venture capital firm CRV, while other companies involved included Samsung and luxury goods company LVMH.
Alphabet's Google is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture part of its next-generation chip, The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Google plans for Taiwan's TSMC to make the main part of the chip, codenamed 'Icefish,' while Samsung may produce a separate component that helps connect it to memory using its 2-nanometer production technology, the report said. The chip industry has been grappling with a capacity crunch, as TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, works to keep up with surging demand and avoid becoming a bottleneck in the global supply chain amid the AI boom.
Stock futures fell, with the Nasdaq-100 selling off and big Asian names such as SoftBank Group and Samsung Electronics down sharply.
SEOUL, June 10 (Reuters) - Leveraged stock investments by South Korean retail investors have reached their limits set at local brokerage firms as the country's world-beating stock market rally
June 9 (Reuters) - Privately held Element Biosciences said on Tuesday it had raised funds in an upsized Series E round, including $175 million from longtime investor Samsung Electronics, to expand
Privately held Element Biosciences said on Tuesday it had raised funds, including $175 million from longtime investor Samsung Electronics, to expand commercialisation of its genetic testing and research products. The San Diego-based company did not disclose the total size of the upsized Series E funding round, or its valuation. Samsung said in a statement that the investment would make it the largest shareholder in Element and deepen strategic cooperation between the two firms.
Micron led the semiconductor chips lower after an initial bounce on Tuesday.
Investing.com -- Samsung Electronics is evaluating plans to build an advanced semiconductor packaging facility in Gwangju, a city in southwestern South Korea, the Korea Economic Daily reported Tuesday.
Samsung Electronics is considering the construction of an advanced semiconductor packaging facility in the southwestern South Korean city of Gwangju, the Korea Economic Daily said on Tuesday. • Samsung is expected to unveil the investment plan at a meeting between South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and the heads of the country's largest conglomerates on June 29, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed industry sources. • The meeting, to be held at the presidential office under the theme of a "major shift in growth strategy," is expected to include Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won.
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World shares were mostly higher on Tuesday, with tech shares leading gains after Wall Street recovered some of its sell-off from last week. Oil prices fell back after surging on Monday as fighting flared between Israel and Iran, threatening to pull the region back into full-scale war. SK Hynix, which on Monday announced plans to partner with Nvidia in building data centers, jumped 15.9%.
AI-driven growth, chip demand, and inflation concerns push Korean bond yields to multi-year highs.
U.S. stock futures were mixed and markets in in Asia and Europe were weaker as renewed fighting between Iran and Israel added to an already uncertain outlook for investors.
Oil prices surged Monday after Iran and Israel resumed strikes against one another despite a purported ceasefire, while technology stocks slumped following heavy pre-weekend losses on Wall Street.Wall Street had tumbled Friday, led by a four-percent drop for the tech-heavy Nasdaq.
Samsung Electronics' co-CEO and head of its chip division, Jun Young-hyun, said on Monday he discussed cooperation in next-generation foundry chips with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a meeting in Seoul. Jun said Samsung and Nvidia are currently collaborating on autonomous driving chips and Groq AI accelerator chips, and also discussed cooperation on future generations of semiconductor products. He added that the two companies had extensive discussions on long-term cooperation, including in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) 4E and HBM5 chips.
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By Cynthia Kim and Yena Park SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters) - Seoul resident Laura Byun has long preferred U.S. mutual funds over Korean shares, but the KOSPI's blistering rally changed that and her risk
By Jihoon Lee and Yena Park SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters) - South Korea's stock benchmark plunged over 8% on Monday, tripping circuit breakers, after robust U.S. jobs data lifted bets on a Federal Reserve
<body><p>STORY: Asian stocks plunged on Monday morning as investors hit the brakes on the red-hot AI rally.</p><p>South Korea’s tech-heavy KOSPI index took the heaviest beating.</p><p>It was down around 6% by late-morning after volatile trade had earlier triggered a 20-minute halt.</p><p>Chip giant Samsung matched the overall decline. </p><p>Meanwhile, Japan’s Nikkei index was down around 4% by the same time.</p><p>That follows a similar drop for the Nasdaq on Wall Street at the end of last week.</p><p>One analyst told Reuters that doubts have crept in over tech earnings, partly following weaker-than-expected numbers from US chipmaker Broadcom.</p><p>Last week’s hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs data have also all but wiped out hopes for further rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this year.</p><p>Then there’s Iran.</p><p>Tensions in the Middle East have flared again, following Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel.</p><p>International benchmark Brent Crude was up around 3% on Monday morning, once again heading towards the $100 per barrel mark.</p><p>That’s despite weekend action by the OPEC+ oil exporters’ group to reassure markets with a further boost to output.</p><p>Later this week, all eyes turn to the potentially record breaking SpaceX share listing.</p><p>Elon Musk’s rocket firm is set to start trading on Friday, and is expected to debut with a valuation of around $1.75 trillion.</p><p>With so much money going to that, and more possible mega-listings such as OpenAI, some brokers have expressed concern about the impact on other assets. </p></body>
By Gregor Stuart Hunter and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, June 8 (Reuters) - Sam Konrad's stocks are having a fantastic year, thanks to AI-fueled rallies in Taiwan and South Korea, but his fund is so top
Asian stocks dropped Monday as AI-related shares sold off after a blistering rally, led by losses in Korean chipmakers SK Hynix and Samsung. Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway from Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast join Yvonne Man and Stephen Engle on The China Show.
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