Stocks stabilised in Asia on Tuesday after last week's tech-led rollercoaster ride as investors tracked a record day on Wall Street, while oil prices edged up after their recent plunge with Donald Trump and Iran giving conflicting views on peace talks.Oil prices rose around one percent, having plunged five percent Monday, on hopes for a US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Memory chip stocks have been volatile and fell as July came to a close, the market’s still-fragile sentiment.
Memory chip stocks have been volatile and fell as July came to a close, the market’s still-fragile sentiment.
Oil prices tumbled on Monday as Donald Trump said fresh talks with Iran will begin later in the day, while the yen extended gains after US and Japanese officials confirmed a rare joint intervention to prop up the currency.Investors were also keeping a close eye on currency markets after Trump confirmed that the United States had intervened jointly with Japan to support the yen, calling it a "signal of friendship", while officials said they were ready to act again.
Micron's 39% plunge and SK Hynix and Samsung's $1.3 trillion spending plan are raising fresh worries for US chipmakers.
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South Korea's stock market crash is now its worst ever. The KOSPI lost over 33% in July, with support at 5,100 in focus.
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Forced selling and concerns about AI-chip expectations intensified Samsung's decline during a record-setting South Korean market rout.
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SanDisk stock has crashed 47% in a month as an SK Hynix miss and a bearish chart pattern threaten to push SNDK below key support.
What started as a dip has morphed into a slump as ETFs and hedge funds dump assets to pay down debt.
Investors braced for a Fed decision, a flood of earnings, and a potential reescalation in the war with Iran.
The latest selloff extends a sharp decline in memory chip stocks that began late last month.
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South Korea’s Kospi stock index dropped more than 8% on Wednesday as doubts over massive investments in artificial intelligence once again led investors to dump shares. The latest rout was led by a plunge in shares in chipmaker SK Hynix after its operating profit in the last quarter fell short of analysts’ forecasts even though it soared sixfold to a record 60.5 trillion won ($41.2 billion). SK Hynix sank 12.6% while shares in Samsung Electronics dropped 8%.
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The two memory-chip leaders helped pull South Korea's KOSPI down 10.8% during Tuesday's regional semiconductor rout.
Well-received earnings from Unilever, Croda and GSK spurred gains on the blue-chip FTSE 100.
South Korea's KOSPI just suffered a historic overnight collapse, dragging Samsung and SK Hynix down double digits and sending shockwaves straight into US chip stocks before Tuesday's open. Whether this sparks another brutal Nasdaq sell-off depends on one critical signal forming in premarket right now.
Asian stock markets churned downwards on Tuesday, with tech-exposed exchanges closing sharply lower
South Korean stocks got hammered on Tuesday, and that's a major worry for Wall Street. The country's flagship Kospi index plunged more than 10%, dragged down by slumps in the shares of memory-chip makers SK Hynix and Samsung.