Samsung Electronics’ talks with its labor union failed to reach an agreement over how the company’s massive profits are distributed, raising the likelihood of a strike next week.
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Samsung Electronics’ talks with its labor union failed to reach an agreement over how the company’s massive profits are distributed, raising the likelihood of a strike next week.
BEIJING/SEOUL, May 13 (Reuters) - U. President Donald Trump picked up Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Alaska en route to a high-stakes Beijing summit with China's Xi Jinping, while his top trade negotiator Scott Bessent began preparatory talks with Chinese officials in South Korea.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined over a dozen U.S. CEOs on President Donald Trump's visit to China this week. Trump called Huang last-minute on Tuesday after seeing media coverage that he was not invited, according to one source familiar with the matter. Huang was seen by White House reporters boarding Air Force One in Alaska, joining Trump on his flight to China.
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Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it regretted the collapse of pay deal talks with its South Korean union, flagging concerns that it could heighten anxiety among employees, shareholders and the public. The company said it would continue efforts to prevent a worst-case scenario through what it described as "sincere dialogue" with the union. The union leader said earlier on Wednesday that it failed to reach a pay deal with the company, warning that more than 50,000 workers could go ahead with a full strike for 18 days from May 21 that threatens to disrupt production of AI and other chips.
Earlier on May 12, I wrote about SanDisk (SNDK) hitting 80 relative strength index, or RSI, one of the most extreme overbought readings in the stock market. The AI memory trade, I noted, was running at a pace that rarely ends quietly. Then Micron (MU) showed up with its own flashing signal too. ...
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<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mostly lower on Tuesday, but the Dow posted a modest gain, while the S&P 500 edged down slightly and the Nasdaq lost seven-tenths of a percent.</p><p>The S&P 500 and Nasdaq eased off record highs after the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index was hotter than expected, pushing the annual inflation rate to 3.8%, its highest in three years.</p><p>And that's likely where it will hover for a while, says Dean Smith, chief strategist and portfolio manager for FolioBeyond.</p><p>"So I think the markets are digesting the fact that this is real. This is our new normal now. This is where we're going to live. We're going to be living in an inflationary environment that's in the neighborhood of between 3.5 and 4%. We're going to be living with something like a 4.5% 10-year [Treasury bond yield], something like a 5% 30- year long bond for the foreseeable future. And that's going to cause some recalibration. I think that's what we're seeing in the market today."</p><p>Meanwhile, the Iran war, now in its 11th week, showed no signs of a near-term resolution. </p><p>The notion of a protracted conflict raises the probability that spiking energy prices could create more entrenched inflation. That has all but squelched hopes for an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve this year under the presumed chairmanship of Kevin Warsh, whom the U.S. Senate confirmed to the central bank board on Tuesday.</p><p>Among the session's stock moves, shares of Humana gained more than 7.5% after Bernstein hiked its price target by 36%.</p><p>:: eBay</p><p>Shares of GameStop dipped about 3.5% after eBay rejected the meme stock trailblazer's $56 billion takeover bid.</p><p>:: Hims & Hers </p><p>And shares of Hims & Hers Health tumbled about 14% after the telehealth company's pivot to branded weight-loss drugs drove up costs and led to a surprise loss in the first quarter.</p></body>
The U.S. might be facing a testy economic backdrop, with the Iran War, worries about oil rationing, and a return of inflation, but the market continues to soldier onward and upward. The market has clung onto one balloon in particular: chipmakers. From its March lows, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF ...