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The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Tuesday closed up +0.38%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.02%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +1.10%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) rose +0.35%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.38%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.07%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.97%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.30%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
(Bloomberg) -- Options on SK Hynix Inc.’s American Depository Receipts began trading on US options exchanges Tuesday, giving traders in the world’s largest derivatives market easier access to the volatile South Korean memory chipmaker. Most Read from BloombergUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeLindsey Graham, Senate Hawk Turned Trump Ally, Dies at 71Trump Embraces Australian Retirement System Backed by Larry FinkUS CPI Falls for the First Time Since 2020, Core Gauge
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.30%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.60%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.97%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.28%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Samsung Electronics Co. is in the early stages of exploring a potential offering of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Samsung declined to comment. Samsung has held preliminary discussions with banks, but hasn’t yet made a decision about whether to proceed, the report said adding that the discussions are in the very early stages and may not result in a listing.
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ASML, the biggest supplier of equipment used to manufacture AI chips, reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday looking to justify its chunky valuation and demonstrate how it will contend with U.S. moves to block exports to China. Clouding the outlook, however, is a proposed U.S. law requiring U.S. allies to align with export controls to curb China's ability to make advanced chips, with ASML named in the legislation. The company has denied selling its most advanced EUV tools to China, which is forecast to account for up to 20% of ASML's sales this year through legal purchases of less-advanced DUV tools to make chips for automotive, industrial and electronic products.
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TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, will likely notch a fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings, driven by booming AI infrastructure spending. Analysts say demand for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI chips, as well as for its advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, remains strong. Its market capitalisation is now nearly double that of South Korean rival Samsung Electronics at around $1.97 trillion.
Growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy is accelerating, driven by the continued semiconductor boom and policy measures.
ADR profit-taking, earnings concerns and foreign selling trigger a sharp Korean chip stock selloff.
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in the second quarter to their lowest level for the period since 2013, as a prolonged memory chip shortage drove up handset prices and dampened demand, according to early estimates from Counterpoint Research. Apple bucked the trend with a 3% rise in shipments, taking its global market share to a record 20% in the quarter on resilient demand for its premium iPhone lineup and keeping prices unchanged. However, analysts expect price increases in the coming months.
<body><p>STORY: SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in trading on Monday - just days after its U.S. listing.</p><p>It was the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day decline on record.</p><p>Investors in Seoul cashed out of a massive share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week.</p><p>The fall in SK Hynix and rival Samsung Electronics stock led to a 9% plunge in South Korea's Kospi and triggered a 20-minute trading halt.</p><p>That was despite President Lee Jae Myung announcing government support for three major projects in chips, AI data centers and physical AI.</p><p>SK Hynix is the world's leading AI memory chipmaker.</p><p>It raised over $26 billion last week selling American Depositary Receipts priced at $149 each.</p><p>Its Korean shares have more than tripled this year.</p><p>It has become a target of global investors betting on a sustained boost to profits.</p><p>They think a shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data centers could boost its numbers.</p><p>One leading analyst said investors were profit-taking following the U.S. listing.</p><p>And further said sentiment grew cautious over SK Hynix's second-quarter earnings.</p><p>They said investors had expected shipments of the firm's HBM4 chips to rise from the second quarter.</p><p>But the increase didn't appear to have happened at scale.</p></body>
Investing.com -- Global chip stocks fell sharply Monday, led by a record one-day plunge in SK Hynix shares, as investors weighed a fresh escalation in Middle East tensions alongside mounting concerns over valuations in AI-related shares.
The nosedive helped send South Korea's Kospi almost 9% lower, which triggered a 20-minute halt in trading. Rival Samsung Electronics's stock also slumped. The decline marked an abrupt reversal in investor appetite after SK Hynix's American depositary receipts soared 13% Friday on their first trading day on the Nasdaq.
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Samsung Electronics aims to bring forward operation of its chip fabrication site in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, to 2029 from 2030-2031, as the chipmaker seeks to keep up with surging demand for memory chips used in AI infrastructure, a source told Reuters on Monday. Samsung did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comments. Yonhap News Agency first reported about the change of the plan on Sunday.
SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in Seoul on Monday, its biggest one-day decline in nearly two decades, as investors in Seoul cashed out of a scorching share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week. The company's U.S.-listed shares dropped 9.2% to $152.50 in premarket trading on Monday after jumping more than 12% in its Nasdaq debut on Friday. Korean stocks extended losses after trading resumed after President Lee Jae Myung on Monday reiterated that the government would help speed up projects to build chip fabs in investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars, as outlined by Samsung and SK Hynix.
Investing.com -- South Korean stocks are trading at their cheapest valuations on record despite an 80% rally this year, as corporate earnings, led by AI-driven memory chip demand, have outpaced gains in share prices, according to Bloomberg.
(Bloomberg) -- SK Hynix Inc. is open to issuing more US shares should returns prove strong and the company’s stock price remains stable, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said.Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsSK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in Biggest Foreign Debut in USPrabowo’s Clampdown on Indonesian Tycoons Fuels Capital FlightZuckerberg Pledges ‘Aggressive’ Pricing With Met
SK Hynix, one of the world's largest makers of memory chips, is hitting the U.S. stock market at a time when demand for its chips is far outpacing its ability to make them thanks to the frenzy over artificial intelligence. The company is already one of the largest in South Korea, along with Samsung Electronics, and is traded publicly on Seoul's Kospi index. SK Hynix priced its American depositary receipts, or ADRs, at $149 each Thursday.
When South Korean billionaire Chey Tae-won attends a bell-ringing ceremony on Friday for SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq listing, it will mark the ultimate payoff of a bet many once considered risky: buying a loss-making chipmaker that has since become an AI powerhouse. SK Group's 2012 acquisition of Hynix was viewed as problematic even within the business conglomerate: Memory chips are cyclical and capital-intensive, and the company was losing money while trailing Samsung Electronics in market share and technology. But under Chey, seeking an edge over Samsung, SK Hynix has spent more than a decade betting on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, at the time a niche technology.
<body><p>STORY: From a massive SK Hynix IPO to Samsung's giant profits...</p><p>This is the week in numbers.</p><p>:: $26.5 billion</p><p>$26.5 billion is how much chipmaker SK Hynix raised in a Wall Street listing on Thursday.</p><p>That was according to a U.S. regulatory filing.</p><p>A source said demand for the U.S. shares sale was more than seven times oversubscribed.</p><p>The South Korean firm is the world's leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips - critical features in advanced processors powering AI systems.</p><p>George Godber is a UK Fund Manager with Polar Capital: </p><p>"The chip plays have been the absolute epicenter of the AI capex spend. There's a lot of attention there. There's an awful lot of demand. There's a lot of retail interest. But it is volatile." </p><p>:: $7.7 billion</p><p>$7.7 billion is how much Apollo Global Management bid for easyJet.</p><p>The U.S. investment firm outbid a rival offer from Castlelake for the British budget airline.</p><p>EasyJet said it would support Apollo's proposal and withdrew support for Castlelake just days after agreeing in principle to a deal.</p><p>The updates sent the carrier's shares soaring during the week.</p><p>:: 46%</p><p>Close to 46% is how much Fast Retailing's profit rose during the previous quarter.</p><p>The Japanese owner of clothing brand Uniqlo said operating profit hit $1.32 billion in the three months through May.</p><p>It managed this while dealing with the Iran war's impact on supply chains and logistics.</p><p>It also put the firm on its way to an expected fifth straight year of record earnings.</p><p>:: 12</p><p>Up to 12 is how many submarines Canada could want Germany's TKMS to build for them.</p><p>TKMS beat out a competing offer from South Korea's Hanwha Ocean.</p><p>Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said Ottawa will now enter talks with the German company.</p><p>"TKMS is the best choice for Canadian workers. It will directly create and sustain an ecosystem of well over 100,000 well-paying jobs across Canada."</p><p>:: $58 billion</p><p>And $58 billion is how much operating profit Samsung flagged for the second quarter. </p><p>The South Korean tech giant expects a 19-fold leap in profits over the quarter from a year earlier, with revenue expected to soar 129%.</p><p>It comes as the global AI boom drives soaring demand for chips, sending prices for silicon sky-high.</p><p>That’s a boost for Samsung, which is the world’s largest maker of memory chips.</p></body>
Your exchange-traded fund is flat. Remember that ETF you tucked away that invests in developed markets outside the U.S.—the one that looked cheap but has lagged behind the S&P 500 forever because it’s loaded with crusty old companies in Europe and Japan? By the way, both of these overseas funds, developed and emerging, beat the S&P 500 by a lot in 2025, too, but that was partly because the value of the dollar tanked last year as the Federal Reserve was cutting interest rates.
(Bloomberg) -- SK Hynix Inc.’s record-setting US debut is paving the way for a fresh wave of leveraged products tied to the South Korean memory giant’s shares, bringing to Wall Street the popular bets that have amplified the stock’s volatility in Seoul.Most Read from BloombergMicrosoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video GameNvidia’s $1 Trillion Slide Sends Valuation to Pre-AI Boom LevelsZuckerberg Pledges ‘Aggressive’ Pricing With Meta’s First Pay-to-Use AITrump Vents Anger W
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China's fourth-largest DRAM maker seeks at least $4.3 billion to expand AI memory-chip production.
Samsung just posted the most profitable quarter in the history of any technology company. The market sold the stock anyway. On July 7, Samsung Electronics reported preliminary second-quarter results showing operating profit of 89.4 trillion won, approximately $58.4 billion, a 19-fold jump from the ...
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