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By Summer Zhen HONG KONG, July 30 (Reuters) - Asia-focused equity hedge funds are heading for their biggest monthly drawdown on record, a Goldman Sachs note showed, as a broad AI stock rout wiped out
That would be slower than the 70.7% surge in June, which was the biggest jump since 1978, but still the second-strongest annual growth rate in the current streak that started in June 2025. The export gains continue to be driven by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, as memory chip prices climb amid a global surge in AI investment, analysts said. In the first 20 days of July, exports rose 52.3% from a year earlier, as semiconductor shipments jumped 180.6%.
South Korean stocks enjoyed a much-needed rally Thursday after a two-day rout as chip giant Samsung reported an eye-watering profit surge thanks to AI-driven demand, though the rest of Asia was mixed and oil held steep gains on fresh Middle East worries. Optimism got a boost Thursday as Samsung posted a 1,813 percent jump in second-quarter operating profit, buoyed by sustained AI-driven demand for memory chips.
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South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a day after crosstown rival SK Hynix also reported record earnings, as the world’s two largest memory chipmakers continue to ride the global artificial intelligence boom. Despite their soaring profits, the companies’ shares have fallen sharply this week in South Korea’s volatile stock market, where retail investors often drive sharp swings in share prices, as concerns grow over their plans to spend massively on increasing manufacturing capacity and the prospects of intensifying competition from China. Samsung’s second-quarter operating profit was a more than 19-fold increase from a year earlier, and nearly all of it came from its semiconductor business, which benefited from rising chip prices driven by demand for AI servers and increased shipments of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips used to power AI applications.
If stock prices are your go-to economic barometer then you could be forgiven for ignoring the original “China Shock” a quarter-century ago. Manufacturing job losses in machinery, textiles, electronics and furniture slammed parts of the U.S. after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. There’s even a strong case that China’s industrial rise was a major tailwind for stocks overall.
By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Single-stock leveraged ETFs, launched in the United States in 2022, have boomed in Asia as a way to juice bets on South Korean chipmakers Samsung
SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.54 trillion won (about $41.66 billion) in the second quarter, up 557% from the a year earlier. Its operating margin was 76%, up from 41% a year earlier. Analyst expectations for operating profit were even higher, and the miss fueled investors' concerns that SK Hynix's rival Samsung is pricing its products more aggressively, Jefferies wrote.
U.S. stocks finished mixed as a rout in chip stocks continued while falling oil prices boosted consumer stocks.
SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) - Asian markets fell on Tuesday led by chipmakers on unease about the massive funding demands of the AI boom, while a slide in oil prices did relatively little to lift
South Korea's top financial regulator said on Tuesday that authorities would consider a cap on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETF) investments for retail investors if needed, local media reports said. Lee Eog-weon, chairman of the Financial Services Commission, told a meeting with local brokerages and asset managers in Seoul that the regulator would review and prepare additional measures to curb the demand for the ETF products, such as putting a cap on total value of investments for each individual.
South Korean chip stocks slumped on Tuesday, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix falling as much as 9.5% and 10.9%, respectively, as investors dumped AI-related bets amid mounting concerns over financing risks tied to AI infrastructure spending and intensifying competition from China. SK Hynix's U.S.-listed shares had already slumped overnight, closing at $143.02, below their initial public offering price of $149. The benchmark KOSPI was trading down 7.3% as of 0032 GMT.
0014 GMT — Japanese stocks are lower in early trade following overnight drops in U.S. technology stocks. Uncertainty over the Iran conflict is also weighing on the market. Investors are closely watching crude oil prices and developments in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted drones that Iran-backed militias in Iraq had launched at the kingdom’s oil facilities.
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Memory-chip maker CXMT soared 466% in its first day of trading today to become mainland China’s most valuable listed company. But the company, China’s national champion in the red-hot memory-chip business, still has a long way to go to catch up with its global competitors.
Leaked Galaxy S27 camera plans suggest a broader Samsung lineup as retailers, carriers, and customers mull another premium smartphone tier. Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) may be preparing to give shoppers yet another expensive Galaxy phone to consider. Samsung is developing four Galaxy S27 models: the ...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung flew to San Francisco on July 24 for a summit with the most powerful names in artificial intelligence. Jensen Huang was there. Sam Altman was there. The heads of Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor and Naver flew in. By the end of the day, roughly $950 billion in ...
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to unveil major supply agreements with American technology companies during President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to Silicon Valley. The negotiations behind these deals have been running for months. What changed is the venue, and that detail says something ...
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Samsung is preparing to bring stablecoins to Samsung Wallet, marking one of the most significant crypto moves yet from a major smartphone maker. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value, typically pegged one-to-one to a currency like the U.S. dollar. Unlike Bitcoin ...
SEOUL, July 24 () - South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will announce large supply deals with U. technology companies during President Lee Jae Myung's visit to San Francisco, a senior presidential official said.
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Memory stocks were the hottest trade of 2026 until they weren't. In the span of a few weeks, one of the market's best-performing sectors flipped into a bear market. Micron (MU), Samsung, and SK Hynix (SKHY) all fell more than 20% from their late-June highs, and the Roundhill Memory ETF went ...
SEOUL, July 24 (Reuters) - South Korea's financial regulator said on Friday it is bringing forward the implementation of increased deposit requirement for retail investors to trade single-stock
Qualcomm and Samsung expanded their chip partnership this week, putting Snapdragon silicon inside nearly every new device in the Galaxy lineup. For over a decade, Samsung ran a split system, selling some flagship phones with its own Exynos processor and others with a Snapdragon chip depending on ...