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Despite issues with the Yen Intervention, Nikkei 225 climbs 3% as chip stocks jump and Bessent Iran remarks lift Hormuz deal hopes.

August 5 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.

(Bloomberg) -- Shares of SK Hynix Inc. advanced, lifted by an overnight rally in US chipmakers and speculation that the Korean firm may soon unveil buybacks and other details of a broader shareholder return plan. Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallChina’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model MakersIran Weighs Allowing Europe to Clear Mines in Strait of HormuzTrump Discusses Iran W

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) for possible use at their Chinese factories, three people familiar with the matter said, as the South Korean firms hedge against the risk of tighter U.S. export controls. The memory chipmakers began ‌testing AMEC etching equipment about two years ago, when uncertainty was mounting over whether Washington would continue allowing them to import U.S. chipmaking tools into ‌China, two of the sources said.

Sandisk could work its way back to this number post-earnings.

The next memory battle could be for second place

(Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co. offered a glimpse of its most advanced memory hardware, touting improved performance and power efficiency in a bid to overtake rivals SK Hynix Inc. and Micron Technology Inc. in the race for long-term dominance.Most Read from BloombergBeer Dynasty Families Sell €731 Million Stake in AB InBevChina’s AI Blitz Creates ‘Death Zone’ for Rival US Model MakersTaco Bell Met With Michigan on Parasite Weeks Before RecallIran Weighs Allowing Europe to Clear Mines in S

Anyone who bought a laptop or built a gaming PC this year already felt memory prices climb. DRAM and NAND flash have gotten steadily more expensive as AI data centers absorb nearly every chip factories can produce, according to a Bloomberg analysis. On August 3, SK hynix and Sandisk released the ...

Samsung Electronics (KOSE:A005930) heads into the Future of Memory and Storage 2026 conference in Santa Clara with investors watching how its memory, storage and AGI computing plans relate back to the stock. See our latest analysis for Samsung Electronics. The 삼성전자 share price has pulled back, with a 30 day share price return that declined 22.46%, even after a strong 7 day share price return of 9.09%. At the same time, the 1 year total shareholder return of 247.66% and 5 year total...

Goldman Sachs just named a specific Kospi target that would make South Korean equities among the biggest winning trades of the decade, but it hinges on two chip giants delivering something the market has never quite seen before.

Samsung had a 39% share of DRAM shipments in the second quarter, according to Counterpoint.

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Micron stock rose Tuesday as new figures show growing market share but there's a threat on the horizon.

The South Korean company is the “memory leader for the AI era,” William Blair analyst Sebastien Naji says.

Samsung had a 39% share of DRAM shipments in the second quarter, according to Counterpoint.

South Korean retail shareholder platform ACT said on Tuesday it had launched a campaign to call an extraordinary ‌shareholders' meeting at Samsung Electronics, urging the chipmaker to buy back about $32 ‌billion worth of shares and set limits on performance bonuses. ACT said it would begin collecting electronic ​signatures from shareholders at 5 p.m. local time and seek support from the National Pension Service and domestic and overseas asset managers to meet the 3% ownership threshold required to call the meeting. The move comes after Samsung shares lost over ‌one third of their value ⁠since hitting record-highs in June, despite the artificial intelligence boom.

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Micron Technology (MU) is back in focus after investors reassessed the stock in light of aggressive capacity expansion plans from CXMT, Samsung and SK Hynix. These plans could pressure future memory pricing. See our latest analysis for Micron Technology. Micron Technology’s share price has been volatile, with a 1-day share price return of 0.79% and a 7-day return of 1.09%, following a July decline of about 15% and concerns over capacity expansion from CXMT, Samsung and SK Hynix. Even with...

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.

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Memory stocks are taking a sharp hit Monday after an extraordinary run, but Wall Street analysts and a major insider are already treating the selloff as something very different from what the price action suggests.

Micron Technology was falling early Monday. Micron shares were down 3% at $798.66 in premarket trading. The moves comes as China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies ( CXMT ) mulls whether to build a second memory-chip plant in Beijing, following its recent initial public offering which led to the company surging to a market valuation of close to $500 billion, according to a Reuters report.

A crisis of confidence in the AI trade has dogged the index of late, putting it in bear market. Big swings, driven by SK Hynix and Samsung, which make chips crucial to the AI buildout and which together make up most of the Kospi, have become practically routine.

Software stocks help power the market higher after President Donald Trump says he will restart talks with Iran.

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.

Morgan Stanley upgrades Korean stocks to overweight with a 9,000 KOSPI target as Samsung and SK Hynix extend losses.

U.S. chip stocks and the Korean market have become increasingly intertwined lately, and the latest moves suggest that volatility remains.