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The world’s hottest stock index tumbled Thursday as the tech selloff that ravaged U.S. markets spread overseas.

↘️ Alphabet Inc. Cl A (GOOGL): Shares slipped premarket after Google lost a lengthy legal battle to overturn an EU fine of about $4.69 billion over its Android operating system. ↘️ Samsung Electronics (KR:005930), SK Hynix (KR:000660), Kioxia (JP:285A): The Asian memory-chip makers slumped, dragging down South Korea's Kospi and Japan's Nikkei 225 indexes.

Asian markets mostly fell on Thursday as a heavy sell-off in chip shares spread across the region, while European stocks opened flat and US futures pointed lower ahead of a closely watched American jobs report.View on euronews

Wall Street was mixed in light trading early Thursday as chip stocks fell further and oil prices dipped near their levels before the Iran war began. Futures for the S&P 500 were unchanged before the opening bell, while Dow Jones Industrial futures inched up 0.2%. Nasdaq futures were off 0.4%.

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Global shares are pulling back after a bumper quarter.

SK Hynix said on Thursday it planned to invest 100 trillion won ($64.38 billion) to build ‌new NAND memory chip and packaging factories as part of a massive ‌investment programme aimed at addressing a shortage driven by the AI boom. The projects in the country's ​central city of Cheongju outlined on Thursday come under a $2.1 trillion plan unveiled by the chipmaker and its local rival Samsung Electronics on Monday that also included a new chip cluster in the southwest and existing projects. South Korea is hoping the investments will ‌double the country's memory chip ⁠production capacity within five years.

US stock futures slipped as investors braced for Thursday's release of the June jobs report.

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Investing.com -- Apple Inc. is in active negotiations to purchase memory chips from two prominent Chinese semiconductor manufacturers that currently reside on a Pentagon blacklist. The high-stakes gamble comes as the iPhone maker scrambles to secure component supplies amid a global memory crunch that has already forced Apple to enact rare, widespread price hikes across its product lineup. According to a report from Bloomberg News, citing people familiar with the matter, Apple is seeking to secur

The AI memory shortage that began squeezing hyperscaler supply chains in 2025 has now entered its second calendar year, with Micron Technology guiding fiscal Q4 2026 revenue to roughly $50 billion and HBM4 qualification samples still rationed among lead customers. For investors trying to translate that supply tightness into portfolio exposure, three exchange-traded funds capture ... The AI Memory Shortage Just Entered Year Two and These 3 ETFs Own Every Layer From DRAM to HBM

Tesla, Caterpillar, Applied Materials and an ETF of chip stocks are in the idiosyncratic investor’s crosshairs.

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 ...

Strategas Asset Management chief ETF strategist Todd Sohn explains what's in store for the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market in the third quarter.

The antitrust lawsuit calls the companies “oligopolists” and accuses them of “concerted anticompetitive behavior.”

The memory industry is in the middle of an unprecedented boom.

Samsung and SK Hynix are pouring half a trillion dollars into new factories that would relieve the components crisis making consumer electronics exorbitantly expensive.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and SK Hynix plan to build two new semiconductor fabrication plants each in South Korea as part of a massive national chip manufacturing initiative. $520 Billion AI Push The South Korean government announced on Monday that...

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.

Memory stocks are coming off their peaks hit last week as investors book profits and institutional funds rebalance their portfolios at the start of the year’s second half.

Samsung Electronics stock has delivered an extremely strong 1 year return, yet the broader valuation checks point to a mixed picture rather than a clear bargain or clear overvaluation at the current share price of ₩334,000. The share price is up 461.8% over the past year, which puts extra focus on whether recent gains are already pricing in much of the good news. The launch of Samsung Electronics' new UFS 5.0 storage for AI focused devices can support expectations for longer term demand,...

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.

Samsung and SK Hynix have announced a multi year semiconductor investment plan in South Korea totaling about $1.3t. The spending is aimed at new chipmaking and advanced packaging facilities that are expected to require extensive process control tools. KLA, traded as NasdaqGS:KLAC, is a key supplier of this equipment and stands directly in the slipstream of this planned capacity build out. For investors watching KLA, this investment wave lands on top of a stock that has already seen very...

Shares of semiconductor materials supplier Entegris (NASDAQ:ENTG) jumped 4.5% in the afternoon session after analysts at Mizuho and UBS raised their price targets on the stock, reflecting an improved outlook for the semiconductor equipment market.

Micron Technology, along with Samsung and SK Hynix, faces a class-action lawsuit alleging collusion to fix DRAM prices by restricting production of older chips while focusing on high-bandwidth memory for AI.

Samsung, SK Hynix and Naver back at least 1,350 trillion won for chips and AI data centers.

KLA Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) is the standout mover, currently trading up 9.28% at $304.23, just below its 52-week high of $304.42. Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) is up 6.02% at $736.46, having touched a fresh 52-week high of $739.32 intraday. Lam Research (NASDAQ: LRCX) is gaining 5.86% at $435.00, within pennies of its 52-week peak of $436.06. ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML), the world’s sole maker of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines and an essential supplier for any new fab constructio

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Samsung and SK Hynix payouts are driving banks to target a fast-growing class of affluent professionals.

South Korea announced over $1 trillion in semiconductor and AI data center investments, and Vertiv is well placed to benefit.

Artificial intelligence has created shortages across nearly every part of the semiconductor supply chain. GPUs have received most of the attention, but memory chips have quietly become just as critical. Every advanced AI accelerator depends on high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and manufacturers are struggling to keep pace. Even after investing billions of dollars to expand production, ... Micron Hit With Price-Fixing Lawsuit: Real Collusion or Simple Supply and Demand?