If you bought Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:VWO) thinking you owned a slice of every major developing economy, you didn’t. VWO tracks an FTSE index that reclassified South Korea as a developed market back in 2009, which means Samsung, SK Hynix, and Hyundai sit at zero weight in the portfolio. Over the past year, ... How Vanguard’s VWO ETF Forgot South Korea and Paid the Price
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South Korean chip manufacturer SK Hynix has crossed the $1 trillion market cap, joining the ranks of Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology in the memory chip sector. On Wednesday, SK Hynix’s shares ended the session with a 9.3% increase, after...

US stocks (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are wavering at the start of Thursday's trading session, while Wall Street grows increasingly bullish on memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU) after its market cap crossed above $1 trillion earlier this week. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi is joined by PNC Asset Management Group CIO Amanda Agati and Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Ines Ferré to gauge the current state of the tech trade and whether valuations are indicative of a market bubble.
From Dead Money to AI Darling For most of the past decade, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) was the patience trade nobody wanted. The Finnish telecom equipment maker spent years restructuring under former CEO Pekka Lundmark, cutting costs, and watching Ericsson, Huawei, and Samsung carve up the 5G market while shareholders received a thin dividend and not ... Had You Invested $1,000 in Nokia 5 Years Ago, Here’s What You’d Have Now
Everyone’s chasing obvious AI semiconductor names. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) sits at a $5.15 trillion market cap. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) is up 39% year to date. And Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) just crossed $1 trillion in market cap, joining SK Hynix and Samsung in a memory club that suddenly looks unkillable. On a recent episode of The ... Forget Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor. This $1 Trillion Memory Play Just Soared 90% in 2.5 Months.
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SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics helped drive the Kospi from 5,000 to 8,000 within months.
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On a South Korean online forum this week, “Muenyu” related how his wife had recently seen her sister with a new designer handbag worth 5m won (£2,480) and asked how she’d afforded it.
The shares of each company have racked up huge gains but one may have more room to run than the other, according to this analyst
Runaway profits and sky-high valuations for microchip companies have fuelled worker demands over pay packages in South Korea, raising the question: who profits from the artificial intelligence boom?The Samsung agreement is fuelling labour demands in other sectors across South Korea -- with workers in industries from biotech and autos to shipbuilding asking for a larger share of corporate profits through bonuses.
Three Samsung affiliates will buy a $408 million stake in Dunamu, the operator of Korea's Upbit crypto exchange.
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.
Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joins Josh Lipton on Market Domination to break down new data showing the steepest decline in smartphone sales on record, as soaring demand for AI memory chips reshapes the semiconductor market.
Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joins Host Josh Lipton on Market Domination to break down the day’s leading tech stories, including SK Hynix (000660.KS) joining the Trillion-dollar club and Micron Technology (MU) impressive growth in 2026.
CXMT wins Shanghai approval for a STAR Board listing that could become mainland China's biggest IPO since 2022.
Shares of Micron soared nearly 20% on Tuesday, lifting its market value above $1 trillion and bringing the Roundhill Memory ETF's return to nearly 120% in less than two months.
SK Hynix and Micron rally as investors bet AI-driven HBM shortages could last through 2027.
The company’s unionized workers have approved a tentative bonus-pay deal reached last week with the company, averting a strike at the world’s largest memory-chip maker.
Memory chips are the hottest play on artificial-intelligence hardware, and Micron Technology has been among the hottest stocks in the space. It has company in SK Hynix, the South Korean memory-chip maker, whose shares have also surged. Micron stock had an incredible day on Tuesday, when it surged 19% after UBS raised its price target on the stock to $1,625 from $535, arguing long-term supply agreements justified a higher price-to-earnings ratio for the company.
Micron's trillion-dollar milestone is boosting tech ETFs as AI-driven memory demand fuels gains across semiconductor funds.
It is becoming easier to get into the $1 trillion market-cap club. SK Hynix and Micron Technology now belong because of the demand for memory chips. SK Hynix’s 12-month stock price jump reached 1000%. The two joined Samsung, which was recently added to the list. The $1 trillion plus list has 14 members. (The club ... 14 Companies Now Worth Over $1 Trillion
Samsung avoided a strike after union members approved a compensation deal for chip workers amid the AI memory boom.
Samsung workers are in line for bonuses of around £300,000 each after demanding a slice of the company’s soaring AI profits.
The South Korean chipmaker closed 9.3% higher on Wednesday, becoming the third Asian company to reach the milestone after Samsung and Micron
73.7% of balloting union members backed the agreement, which sets aside 10.5% of chip division operating profit for special bonuses
Micron Technology was gaining again early Wednesday as it built on its surge from the previous day. Micron shares were up 5.5% at $945.04 in premarket trading. The stock rose 19% on Tuesday, fueled by a research note from UBS which raised its price target for Micron to $1,625 from $535, arguing long-term supply agreements justified a higher price-to-earnings ratio for the company.
South Korea's SK Hynix and US chipmaker Micron both surpassed $1 trillion (€860bn) in market capitalisation within 24 hours of each other. Seoul's KOSPI index also hit an all-time high as AI continues to reshape markets.View on euronews