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The Financial Services Commission is seeking to stabilize a stock market that has seen wild swings as individual investors use debt to chase profits amid AI-related jitters.
Exchange-traded funds have been a fixture of financial markets since the 1990s as a popular low-cost way for investors to buy baskets of stocks and trade them like shares on a brokerage account. Leveraged ETFs, which promise to multiply the daily returns of their targets, have been around for two decades and are now exploding in popularity, particularly around the AI theme and some of the companies at the forefront of hardware sales. Single-stock leveraged ETFs, which launched in the U.S. in 2022, are booming in Asia as a way to juice bets on South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix and are driving so much money they are reshaping the market, lifting volatility and worrying regulators.
Asia-Pacific equities mostly declined, as a pullback in U.S. chip stocks fueled concerns about the longevity of artificial-intelligence enthusiasm and weighed on chip-heavy South Korea.
South Korea's central bank hikes rates to 2.75% to fight 3.2% inflation, pressuring the won, stocks, and crypto.
South Korea's top financial regulator will announce new measures on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds soon, its chief said on Thursday, amid worries about the effects of such instruments on financial market stability. The Financial Services Commission will "closely inspect and review improvement measures" on the ETFs soon, Chairman Lee Eog-weon said in a radio interview on Thursday, when asked how the product affected the high volatility of South Korea's stock market. In a separate move, South Korea's finance minister will hold a meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss the marketss, the ministry said without elaborating further.
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TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, is expected to notch a fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings on Thursday, with a 59% surge in net profit for April-June, driven by booming global demand for AI infrastructure. Analysts said demand for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI chips, as well as for its advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, remains strong. TSMC is expected to report net profit of T$632.6 billion ($19.65 billion) for the second quarter, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate compiled from 18 analysts.
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Chinese investors seeking shares in CXMT's $8.6 billion IPO are betting the Chinese chipmaker's valuation will soar as much as 10-fold after its Shanghai debut on the back of an AI-led upcycle and Beijing's ambition to be technologically self-sufficient. The share offering by CXMT, or ChangXin Memory Technologies, will be Asia's biggest share sale so far this year. Wu Zhou, a fund manager at Shenzhen Deyuan Investment, said he will bid for new CXMT shares, betting that China's top memory chipmaker will one day take market share from global giants like South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) expects to raise at least 57.9 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) this month in an initial public offering on Shanghai's Nasdaq-style STAR Market in what would be Asia's largest share sale so far this year. The offering, which could rise to 66.6 billion yuan if the over-allotment option is exercised, would mark a major milestone for a company that has grown to become China's leading maker of DRAM memory chips and a symbol of Beijing's push toward technological self-reliance. Below are some facts about CXMT and why it is capturing investor attention.
(Bloomberg) -- ASML Holding NV lifted its annual sales forecast for the second time this year as a surge in artificial intelligence spending drives demand for the Dutch company’s chip-making machines. Most Read from BloombergThailand Scraps Plan to End Visa-Free Entry for Indian TouristsUS Hits Iran With Strikes, Blockade as Trump Plans Hormuz ChargeTrump Drops 20% Fee for Hormuz Cargo After Gulf Pressure‘We Faltered’: IBM Plunges Most Since at Least 1968 on MissOpenAI’s First Device Will Be Mov
ASML, the world's biggest supplier of equipment used to manufacture computer chips, on Wednesday reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and profit, as demand from makers of artificial intelligence chips offset uncertainty over sales to China. Revenue for the three months ended June 30 was 9.33 billion euros ($10.90 billion), compared with the 8.80 billion euros expected by analysts, according to LSEG median estimates. Net income was 2.92 billion euros, compared with the 2.62 billion euros expected, according to LSEG data.
Asian shares mostly rose Wednesday, tracking a rally on Wall Street following a report that showed U.S. inflation was not as bad last month as economists expected. Shares in computer chipmaker SK Hynix rose 9.4%, while those of Samsung Electronics surged 6.1%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 1.5% to 24,701.10, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.2% to 3,957.79 after the Chinese government reported the economy expanded at a 4.3% annualized pace in April-June, slowing sharply from 5% in the first quarter of the year.
Asian stocks gained Wednesday as markets dialed back U.S. rate-hike expectations following an unexpectedly upbeat inflation print.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) on Tuesday closed up +0.38%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.02%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +1.10%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) rose +0.35%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.38%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.07%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.97%. September E-mini S&P futures (ESU26 ) are up +0.30%, and September E-mini Nasdaq futures...
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The S&P 500 Index ($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...
Samsung Electronics Co. is in the early stages of exploring a potential offering of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Samsung declined to comment. Samsung has held preliminary discussions with banks, but hasn’t yet made a decision about whether to proceed, the report said adding that the discussions are in the very early stages and may not result in a listing.
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ASML, the biggest supplier of equipment used to manufacture AI chips, reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday looking to justify its chunky valuation and demonstrate how it will contend with U.S. moves to block exports to China. Clouding the outlook, however, is a proposed U.S. law requiring U.S. allies to align with export controls to curb China's ability to make advanced chips, with ASML named in the legislation. The company has denied selling its most advanced EUV tools to China, which is forecast to account for up to 20% of ASML's sales this year through legal purchases of less-advanced DUV tools to make chips for automotive, industrial and electronic products.
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TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, will likely notch a fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings, driven by booming AI infrastructure spending. Analysts say demand for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI chips, as well as for its advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, remains strong. Its market capitalisation is now nearly double that of South Korean rival Samsung Electronics at around $1.97 trillion.
Growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy is accelerating, driven by the continued semiconductor boom and policy measures.
ADR profit-taking, earnings concerns and foreign selling trigger a sharp Korean chip stock selloff.
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