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(Bloomberg) -- Global banks are curbing hedge funds’ leveraged bets on Asia’s top chipmakers including SK Hynix Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. after a blistering rally this year raised concerns of a potential pullback, according to people familiar with the matter.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Raises $75 Billion in Biggest Debut of All TimeXbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulTrump Insists Iran Deal Is Close After Scrapping New StrikesTrump Vows New Attacks on Iran, Thre
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.
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.
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

<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>
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SK Hynix told investors this week it received "tremendously positive" feedback on its proposed U.S. listing as the chipmaker benefits from strong demand for advanced memory semiconductors needed to run AI data centers, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. SK Hynix told some investors this week that it had "tremendously positive" feedback from stockholders to its U.S. listing plan given AI demand and the company's competitive position in the memory-chip market, the person said. The company, a major supplier to Nvidia, expects a U.S. listing to broaden its investor base, as some U.S.-based institutional investors invest in U.S.-listed stocks only due to internal mandates, the person said.
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Shares in Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other South Korean tech firms rallied on Monday, as expected meetings between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Korean executives boosted hopes of tie-ups in AI and robotics. Chipmaker Samsung Electronics was also buoyed by data that South Korea's semiconductor exports surged to a record high in May on the AI boom, helping the country's total exports post their biggest rise in over four decades. Huang is expected to visit South Korea later this week and meet LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and other Korean executives, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Shares in Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other South Korean tech firms rallied on Monday, as expected meetings between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Korean executives boosted hopes of tie-ups in AI and robotics. Chipmaker Samsung Electronics was also buoyed by data that South Korea's semiconductor exports surged to a record high in June on the AI boom, helping the country's total exports post their biggest rise in over four decades. Huang is expected to visit South Korea later this week and meet LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and other Korean executives, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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Samsung Electronics on Friday said it started shipping samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip to customers, pulling ahead of rivals in distributing a new version of the product critical to AI data centers and sending its shares higher. Samsung said the chip uses its latest 1c DRAM process technology - sixth-generation, 10-nanometer-class DRAM - alongside Samsung's 4-nanometer foundry logic base die. The rollout is part of Samsung's efforts to regain momentum in the HBM market after falling behind rivals like SK Hynix and Micron in supplying advanced artificial intelligence memory chips, particularly to Nvidia.
Dell boosted its annual revenue and profit expectations on Thursday, showing data center expansion by clients is fueling demand for its AI-optimized servers that are powered by Nvidia's powerful chips. U.S. tech giants including Alphabet and Amazon plan to spend over $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year, which would drive up demand for server and data center equipment from suppliers such as Dell and Super Micro Computer. These AI servers are critical for powering services such as ChatGPT, as they are equipped with advanced memory chips to store data and instructions, providing the immense computing power required for such applications.
Even by the standards of the artificial-intelligence boom, the gains in chip stocks this year have been extraordinary. Sandisk has soared 570%. Intel has more than tripled. Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix have all climbed into the ranks of $1 trillion companies.
SK Hynix and Micron rally as investors bet AI-driven HBM shortages could last through 2027.
Unionised workers at Samsung Electronics have approved a highly contentious bonus pay deal - one that averts a massive 18-day strike but also exacerbates deep disparities in fortunes among workers at the tech conglomerate. Two unions for the world's largest memory chip maker said on Wednesday that 74% of the 62,616 workers who cast their votes had backed the deal. Shares in Samsung surged 6%, also helped by investor frenzy over the AI boom that has driven chip sector shares higher.
After a brief cool-off last week, U.S. semiconductor and memory stocks are rallying in Tuesday morning trading, led by Micron, which traded above a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time.
New Samsung and SK Hynix leveraged ETFs could attract up to $3.5 billion from retail investors.
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