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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...
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.
<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>
SanDisk is the most direct publicly traded beneficiary of the disclosed arrangement, given that the memo specifically names the company as Meta's flash storage supplier; the stock's move reverses a bruising stretch that had weighed on the NAND-flash sector coming into this week.
Shares slipped in Asia and oil prices jumped Thursday as conflict escalated in the Middle East, with Iran and the U.S. launching fresh attacks. U.S. futures edged higher. The United States launched more airstrikes on Iran, and Iran responded by firing at Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said their temporary ceasefire was “over.”
“Gradually and then suddenly” is the way in which Mike Campbell, the wealthy but aimless character from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, describes his bankruptcy. The market is changing, quietly and efficiently, heading into the start of a crucial second quarter earnings season that could either underscore the bull case for tech stocks over the back half of the year or test investor patience for long-awaited profits from the artificial intelligence boom. The which hit its latest all time high in early June, slipped into negative territory for the past month on Tuesday, led to the downside by the ongoing slump in tech stocks that have led the market for much of the past four years.
Samsung Electronics stock dived even after it forecast a 19-fold increase in operating profit from the same period a year earlier.
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, July 7 (Reuters) - Asian stocks drifted lower on Tuesday, even after South Korea's Samsung Electronics forecast an eye-popping 19-fold jump in second-quarter profit, while
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Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is the most directly tradeable name tied to Appaloosa’s haul. Bloomberg identified Micron as one of the fund’s biggest winners alongside Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings, and Sandisk Corp., all of which Tepper rode through an AI-infrastructure spending boom that has reshaped the memory-chip landscape in 2025 and into 2026.
Samsung Electronics earnings, SK Hynix’s U.S. listing and TSMC’s June sales will give investors fresh clues on demand for AI memory chips and the durability of this year’s semiconductor rally.
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Samsung Electronics is likely to estimate that its operating profit jumped about 18-fold to another record high from a year earlier in the second quarter, as AI growth continues to strain memory supply and push chip prices higher. On Tuesday, the world's largest memory chipmaker by sales is likely to flag an operating profit of 86 trillion won ($56.35 billion) for the April to June quarter, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate based on forecasts from 30 analysts, weighted toward those with the best track records.
U.S. recruitment slowed significantly in June, dampening some of the employment growth momentum observed earlier this year.
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Global shares are pulling back after a bumper quarter.
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SK Hynix builds the memory chips wired into Nvidia’s most advanced AI processors, supplying a component so scarce that customers now reserve production years in advance. This week the South Korean company asked U.S. regulators for permission to list its shares on the Nasdaq for the first time in ...
79% That’s how much South Korea’s exports jumped in June compared with a year prior, as the AI boom fueled demand for chips made by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. It was the fastest expansion since October 1978 and came as the Kospi finished the second quarter yesterday with a more than 50% gain despite volatility from the war.
Exports were powered by the unabated demand for advanced chips to fuel the global artificial-intelligence boom, resulting in their largest increase in nearly five decades.
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South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix said Monday they will invest a combined 800 trillion won ($518 billion) in building a new computer chipmaking hub in the country’s southwest region, capitalizing on surging artificial intelligence -driven demand. President Lee Jae Myung joined the companies’ chairs Monday in announcing the plan, which dovetails with the government’s efforts to expand investment beyond the greater Seoul metropolitan area, the country’s economic center and heart of its semiconductor sector.
The rally driven by the global artificial-intelligence boom has exposed structural vulnerabilities in a stock market unaccustomed to wild swings.
IBM (IBM) hasn’t built a commercial computer chip of its own in nearly a decade. On Thursday, June 25, the company said its research labs had cracked something the rest of the chip industry hasn’t managed yet. The breakthrough has nothing to do with software, and everything to do with one tiny ...
Micron Technology stock surged ahead of the open Thursday after the memory chip maker reported strong third-quarter earnings. Micron reported adjusted earnings per share of $25.11. Micron’s closely watched adjusted gross margin was 85%, again beating Wall Street’s consensus.
South Korean semiconductor shares rallied on Thursday after U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology's quarterly results and forecast beat expectations, boosting optimism over sustained demand for AI-related chips. Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics rose as much as 11.6% and 6.2%, respectively, in early trade, tracking a rally in U.S. chip stocks after Micron's earnings and outlook reinforced confidence in the memory sector. The rally also followed SK Hynix's announcement on Wednesday of plans to raise up to 45.45 trillion won ($29.52 billion) through a secondary listing on Nasdaq, as it seeks to capitalise on strong investor appetite for AI stocks.
Micron Technology forecast quarterly revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling that insatiable demand for AI-related infrastructure will continue to drive strong demand for its memory chips. Shares of the company rose around 4% in extended trading. The company expects fourth-quarter revenue of $50 billion, plus or minus $1 billion, compared with analysts' average estimate of $43.58 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Qualcomm is expected to use its investor day on Wednesday to lay out a push beyond its core smartphone business into the fast-growing, but highly competitive, market for AI data center chips. Analysts expect the San Diego-based company to name new customers for its AI chips as it tries to gain a foothold in a market dominated by Nvidia. The shift reflects mounting pressure in the smartphone market, where Qualcomm is one of the world’s largest chip suppliers to Android device makers.
Micron’s fourth-quarter outlook will be closely watched. The red-hot memory stock needs a big number.
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