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Semiconductor stocks broadly rose on Thursday with memory-chip makers, including Sandisk, among the top performers.

SK Hynix (000660.KS) is set to go public in the US on Friday. Hennion & Walsh chief investment officer Kevin Mahn, Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré, and Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre take a closer look at the company, the memory trade, and more.

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee returned to CNBC’s Morning Call Sheet on Thursday, July 9, alongside JonesTrading’s Mike O’Rourke and Vital Knowledge’s Adam Crisafulli, to discuss a market that is simultaneously celebrating the AI build-out while rotating into value and defensive names. Lee argued: “AI is probably one of the most important structural stories in our lifetime.” ... Fundstrat’s Tom Lee: AI Is a Once in a Lifetime Story – Why Easing Inflation in H2 2026 Could Fuel the Next Rally

By Ragini Mathur and Avinash P July 9 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes advanced on Thursday, as rising chipmakers helped outweigh geopolitical anxiety over renewed attacks that could prolong the

Chip stocks trimmed losses on Wednesday despite a decline in the overall market.

Samsung Electronics stock dived even after it forecast a 19-fold increase in operating profit from the same period a year earlier.

(Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co.’s quarterly profit surged 19-fold, soaring past elevated expectations due to rocketing demand for memory chips needed in AI data centers.Most Read from BloombergGreece Offers Bounty to Catch Ravenous Fish Lured by Warming SeaMicrosoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major OverhaulSaudis Slash Main Oil Price to Rare Discount as Market DivesOil, Gas Tankers Cross Hormuz Via Oman-Side Route After U-TurnsTwo Millennium Trading Pods Made About $

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is the most directly tradeable name tied to Appaloosa’s haul. Bloomberg identified Micron as one of the fund’s biggest winners alongside Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings, and Sandisk Corp., all of which Tepper rode through an AI-infrastructure spending boom that has reshaped the memory-chip landscape in 2025 and into 2026.

Investing.com -- Memory and storage stocks are climbing in premarket trading on Monday, with Micron up 2.2%, SanDisk gaining 3.6%, Western Digital rising 3.4% and Seagate adding 1.8%, as bullish analyst notes pointed to pricing upside and durable AI-driven demand.

July 6 (Reuters) - Wall Street futures rose on Monday as chip stocks stabilized after recent weakness, while a fall in oil prices helped extend a rally that lifted the main U.S. indexes the previous

AI demand is driving strong growth across HBM, DRAM and NAND.

Futures fell amid key jobs data and with Fed chief Kevin Warsh due. Bloom Energy, Nike and SpaceX are early movers.

Stocktwits data showed retail sentiment around SPY was ‘bearish’, while QQQ sentiment remained ‘bullish.’

Investing.com -- Three major chipmakers gained about $2 trillion in combined market value during the second quarter as investors expanded their artificial intelligence holdings beyond Nvidia.

AI customers are rushing to Micron for memory products.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite fell in every day of a calendar week for the first time since April 2024, losing about 2% and 4.6%, respectively. “I just don’t think it’s a time as an investor that you should be focused on swinging for the fences,” said Jim Baird, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors. The declines continued this past week, which began with a tech selloff that ripped through chip makers from Seoul to Santa Clara, Calif. Micron’s upbeat outlook after Wednesday’s close looked set to spark a rebound, but momentum faded quickly, especially after Apple and Microsoft announced they would increase prices for MacBooks and Xbox gaming consoles, respectively.

Memory stocks rarely produce 84% gross margins. Commodity DRAM is the business school case study for cyclical pain, where pricing power goes to die. So when Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) posted non-GAAP gross margins of 84.9% for its fiscal third quarter, the number stopped being a memory number and became a question about what kind of ... Micron Smashed Even the Bulls: Evercore Says This AI Rally Has the ‘Earnings Power’ to Last

Micron Rockets Higher, Dragging Global Chip Stocks Into Green Zone

<body><p>STORY: From Micron's mega market cap to Apple's price hikes...</p><p>...this is the Week in Numbers.</p><p>:: The Week in Numbers</p><p>:: $1.4 trillion.</p><p>About $1.4 trillion was Micron's market cap after it briefly blew past the value of Meta and Tesla for the first time.</p><p>It came after the firm forecast quarterly profit and revenue well above expectations.</p><p>Micron is a major memory-chip maker and a key supplier to AI titan Nvidia.</p><p>The company's shares have more than tripled in value so far this year, and soared close to a fifth following its results.</p><p>:: 5%</p><p>Almost 5% is how far Apple shares fell after it announced price hikes.</p><p>The tech giant said its cheapest laptop will jump from $599 to $699, with iPad prices also rising - although the iPhone won't jump for now.</p><p>Apple says it can no longer avoid passing on rising costs to consumers.</p><p>The price of memory chips jumped by around 98% in the first quarter, and has kept soaring due to the AI boom.</p><p>:: 42%&nbsp;</p><p>42% was how much shares of Wendy's soared as retail traders bought up the beaten-down stock in the latest meme-like rally.</p><p>Trading on the heavily shorted stock was paused multiple times due to volatility..</p><p>Shares briefly hit a more than seven-month high.</p><p>The fast food chain is battling weak sales and pressure from an activist investor, with its stock down more than 78% from record highs five years ago.</p><p>:: $648 billion</p><p>Almost $648 billion is how much Samsung plans to invest in South Korea over 10 years.</p><p>That's according to the Maeil Business Newspaper, which said the firm will announce its intentions on Monday.</p><p>The investment includes a potential $194 billion to build chip factories in the country's southwest, as well as plans for AI data centers, batteries and displays.</p><p>There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Samsung.</p><p>:: $606.5 million</p><p>And $606.5 million was H&M's operating profit during its fiscal second quarter.</p><p>That was smaller than expected for the Swedish fashion retailer.</p><p>H&M blamed weaker consumer demand and inflation made worse by the Iran war.</p><p>CEO Daniel Erver said Europe, particularly the western part of it, had gone through a difficult quarter.</p></body>

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, while the S&P 500 closed flat and the Nasdaq dropped nearly half a percent.</p><p>Technology shares reversed early gains to move lower, as investors worried about hyperscaler spending on AI and who foots the bill.</p><p>:: Micron</p><p>Those fears outweighed upbeat signals on AI demand from Micron, which gained nearly 16%, while shares of Sandisk soared 22%.</p><p>Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, notes that it's memory chip makers that are now leading the charge.&nbsp;</p><p>"What's different about Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, those types of names that are doing so well is that they're memory chips. And you have to have memory, specifically DRAM or H-band memory, if you're going to have enough computing power to do all the computations. That is nothing if you don't have memory to transfer it from one place to another. So one of the reasons that these stocks have done so well and the growth at Micron is so solid is because a recent redesign in the server technology means we go from eight memory chips per server to 96. That's 12 times growth in demand for this one simple component."</p><p>The surging prices of memory and storage chips prompted Apple on Thursday to hike prices for its iPads and MacBooks. That weighed on the stock, sending it down more than 6%. Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet also dropped.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Among other movers, shares of Bio-Techne jumped after Merck agreed to acquire the biotech firm for $73 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of about $11.3 billion.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Meanwhile, U.S. Department of Commerce data on Thursday showed the annual inflation rate through May rose above 4% for the first time in three years, but oil prices this week fell to below pre-war levels.</p></body>

Micron Technology predicts that memory-chip shortages will persist until at least 2028. Micron stock jumped Thursday after its strong Q3 report.

AI Memory Demand Looks Stronger Than Feared

Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferre and Sevens Report Research Founder Tom Essaye break down Micron's (MU) earnings beat and stronger-than-expected guidance. They discuss how record revenue and growing demand for AI memory chips may boost confidence in the broader AI trade.

The chip stocks inside this popular ETF are sending a clear signal about their future, and it's worth listening to.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 were up in late-morning trading Thursday, while the Nas

Micron reached record revenue for the fifth straight quarter.

AI chip rally powers gains as inflation data looms.

Western Digital stock and shares of hard-disk drive rival Seagate Technology rallied after Micron's results.

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures rose sharply on Thursday, with technology and semiconductor stocks leading gains after upbeat updates from two major players in the artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Stocks looked set to rally after memory-chip maker Micron’s strong earnings and guidance breathed some life into the artificial-intelligence trade, which has stumbled in recent sessions. Nasdaq 100 futures jumped 2% on Thursday. S&P 500 futures gained 0.7%.