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8am: Futures point higher US stocks are set for a positive open on Friday, with futures pointing higher as Wall Street looks ahead to April's non-farm payrolls report, even as tensions in the Middle East flared overnight. Nasdaq futures are up 0.7%, S&P 500 futures have gained 0.5%,...

Nintendo and Sony both flagged the impact from surging memory prices on their games businesses on Friday, as the artificial intelligence boom constrains chip supply and deepens disruptions across the tech sector. "Super Mario" maker Nintendo said that higher component costs, particularly memory, and the impact of tariffs is expected to add roughly 100 billion yen ($638 million) to costs in the current financial year. President Shuntaro Furukawa said the higher component costs, along with factors including exchange rates, were reflected in Nintendo's decision to hike prices of its Switch 2.

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Samsung Electronics' union said on Friday it will enter a ‌mediation process with the company on ‌May 11 and 12 over a wage dispute that ​has threatened to escalate into a full-blown strike at the company. Negotiators from the union, management and the government met on Friday, with Labour Ministry officials pledging "full support" for talks between the two sides, the union said. Shares of Samsung Electronics jumped ‌2.6% in after-hours trading ​in Seoul.

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Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) reported quarterly earnings and guidance that surpassed Wall Street expectations, while highlighting strong customer demand for its recently launched artificial intelligence-focused data center processor. Despite the upbeat results, U.

Just as the world's AI bulls looked to be running out of puff, a fresh investor frenzy has hit Asia's tech names, making Seoul's stock market the world's hottest and delivering bonuses of half a million dollars to workers at one Korean chipmaker. Asia's three most valuable companies are chipmakers - ‌Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix - and their recent record earnings have put the spotlight on their critical role in the global AI supply chain. Chip revenues leapt nearly ‌50 times at Samsung last quarter and South Korea's benchmark KOSPI has doubled in little more than six months.

Oil prices fell and stocks rose on rising optimism about an end to Middle East hostilities. Iran and the U.S. are working with mediators on a one-page framework to restart negotiations aimed at ending the conflict and opening the Strait of Hormuz, with talks potentially beginning next week in Islamabad. Semiconductor stocks extended their rally.

The South Korean technology giant is shrinking its footprint in one of the world’s largest consumer markets amid fierce competition from domestic brands.

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Oil prices fell and stocks rose on rising optimism about an end to Middle East hostilities. Iran and the U.S. are working with mediators on a one-page framework to restart negotiations aimed at ending the conflict and opening the Strait of Hormuz, with talks potentially beginning next week in Islamabad. Semiconductor stocks extended their rally.

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Samsung Electronics, a maker of TVs and home appliances, said on Wednesday that it has ‌decided to discontinue sales of some consumer electronics products ‌in mainland China amid intensifying competition in the local market. "The company will make ​every effort to minimize any impact on customers resulting from this decision, and is reviewing various support measures for business partners," Samsung said in a statement, following earlier reports in South Korean media about ‌the exit of its ⁠TV and home appliance sales in China. While Samsung's memory chip business is enjoying a profit surge due ⁠to AI boom, its other products such as TVs, home appliances and mobile phones face mounting competition from Chinese rivals in China ​and elsewhere.

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Samsung reaches $1 trillion market cap on booming demand for high-bandwidth memory for AI.

Chipmakers are the most actively traded U.S. stocks ahead of the opening bell, setting the stage for another tech-led rally. In recent premarket action: Intel (INTC) is the most traded stock by volume, according to Dow Jones Market Data, and is up about 6%.

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He cited “great progress” in talks with Iran. The International Monetary Fund published its 180-page World Economic Outlook three weeks ago. The differences between that and its now more likely “adverse” or “severe” scenarios aren’t small, and investors should take note as the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked.

The benchmark index crossed the 7,000 mark for the first time ever, largely thanks Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest memory-chip makers and a heavyweight in the index. Samsung’s shares climbed more than 14%, ushering the company into the rarefied club of companies with a market valuation of more than $1 trillion. Samsung said during its earnings call last week that its production capacity was already fully sold out for this year.

U. S. stock futures moved higher on Wednesday after President Donald Trump paused a military initiative aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and signalled progress toward a possible peace agreement with Iran.

Investing.com -- Advanced Micro Devices forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, driven by strong demand for its data center chips. Shares rose 17% in premarket trading on Wednesday.

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The South Korean company is only the second Asian company with a market valuation above $1 trillion, aside from TSMC.

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South Korea’s Kospi soared nearly 7% to a fresh record on Wednesday as Samsung Electronics' stock jumped nearly 13% in a rally driven by expectations of strong growth in artificial intelligence and hopes for progress in ending the U.S.-Iran war. Shares in SK Hynix, another major Korean computer chipmaker, shot up 10% early Wednesday. Both Samsung and SK Hynix are major manufacturers of the computer chips vital for AI applications.

South Korea's Kospi soars nearly 7% to fresh records as Samsung Electronics stock jumps nearly 13%.

The market capitalisation of Samsung Electronics' ‌common stock surpassed $1 trillion ‌on Wednesday, making it the second ​Asian company after TSMC to reach the milestone. Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, saw its ‌market value ⁠reach 1,500 trillion won ($1.03 trillion) in early trading ⁠in Seoul on Wednesday, tracking sharp gains of AI-related ​stocks in ​the U.S. ​overnight. Shares of the ‌South Korean chip giant were up 12% at 09:52 a.m.

South Korea's benchmark KOSPI index vaulted past 7,000 for the first time on Wednesday, as an AI-powered rally in semiconductor stocks drove Samsung Electronics past the $1 trillion market-cap barrier. The gains underscore how ‌global demand for artificial intelligence hardware has become the dominant force reshaping equity markets, turning South Korea's chip-heavy benchmark into one of the ‌world's best performing major markets. The KOSPI closed up 6.45% at 7,384.56, after briefly tripping a rare "sidecar" trading curb and rising as much as 7.06% to a record high of 7,426.60, as a ​blistering rally in U.S. chip stocks overnight drove the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 4.2%.