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Korean stocks up 22% in 10 days on chip rallyThe Kospi has ripped 22% higher in barely two trading weeks as memory chip pricing and AI demand reignite Samsung and SK Hynix. That pace outstrips even the sharpest AI-driven rallies of the past t…Vietnam's biggest media house prices its IPO at a discount to Asia peersDatVietVAC is selling 11.15 million shares at VND 54,800 each, raising about VND 611 billion, roughly $23 million, ahead of a planned HOSE listing later this year. The implied valuation, about 13 t…HSBC's record rally now has to survive its own earningsHSBC shares have run further than most UK bank analysts expected this year, which means Wednesday's numbers face a higher bar than a simple beat, they need to justify a valuation that's already pri…Korea's stock market just had its best day on recordA single-day gain in the mid-teens percentage range for a major national index is a repricing, and it happened because Korean chipmakers and AI supply chain names got swept up in the same optimism …Samsung's chip division just printed a record profitSamsung's semiconductor unit posted its strongest quarterly profit on record, driven by memory chip prices that have been climbing all year on AI datacentre demand. Korean equities swung higher on …Seoul tightens leveraged ETF rules before the next margin call, not afterSouth Korea moving up its deposit requirement timeline for leveraged and inverse ETFs is a direct response to retail trading volumes regulators think are running ahead of the collateral backing the…Korean margin traders are back at the tables just as brokers call the unwind overSouth Korean brokers are telling clients the forced margin-call unwinding that hammered the Kospi is nearly finished, and retail traders have responded by piling straight back into the leveraged be…South Korea's $880bn chip bet dwarfs anything Europe or the UK can deploySeoul has announced an 880 billion dollar investment programme in semiconductors and AI infrastructure, combining state incentives with commitments from Samsung and SK Hynix across advanced packagi…Samsung and SK Hynix's $1.3 trillion bet is a commitment to Korean semiconductor dominance that dwarfs any Western industrial policyA combined ten-year investment pledge of $1.3 trillion from Samsung and SK Hynix is the kind of number that makes the UK's semiconductor strategy look like a rounding error. The capital is targeted…Tech sell-off spreads to Asia as Oracle layoff numbers circulateYesterday's global tech sell-off, which started in US sessions on 23 June, carried through Asian markets overnight with particular pressure on semiconductor and enterprise software names. The Oracl…MSCI holds Korea at emerging market and defers Indonesia to NovemberMSCI keeping South Korea in emerging market status rather than upgrading it to developed is the most expensive annual non-event in Asian fund management. Korean equities trade at a structural disco…South Korean producer prices are up 6.9% year-on-year. The Bank of Korea's next move is no longer obvious.South Korea's producer price index has hit its highest level since October 2022, with April's 6.9% year-on-year reading driven by a 73.9% surge in coal and petroleum product prices as the Hormuz cr…SK Hynix ETFs now drive the stock's trading as AI memory mania peaksETF flows are becoming a bigger driver of SK Hynix trading than the actual memory chip fundamentals. The Korean giant's share price has surged 230 percent year-to-date on AI memory demand, pushing …South Korea's AI rally craters on tech doubtsThe world's hottest stock market just hit its worst day of the year. South Korea's Kospi dropped 5.3 percent as Samsung and SK Hynix each fell more than 7 percent, unwinding months of AI-driven gai…South Korea bets big on AI chips and defense boomThe country is capturing a rare convergence of AI infrastructure demand and geopolitical defense spending just as domestic policy support lags peers. Samsung pledged $228 billion for new semiconduc…Samsung's 48,000 workers call off strike after last-minute AI profit dealSamsung's largest union suspended an 18-day strike threat after reaching a tentative pay deal that gives workers a bigger slice of the company's AI windfall. The dispute centered on bonuses tied to…Korea's won weakens despite 150% Kospi surge on AI chip boomSouth Korea's Kospi surged over 150% in the past year on AI semiconductor demand, but the won hit 1,449 per dollar as Korean investors bought more US AI stocks than foreigners bought Korean chips. …Korean stocks near correction as bond yields hit 4.25%South Korea's equity rally is running into a brick wall as 10-year government bond yields surge to 4.25%, their highest level in over two years. The market that delivered 200%+ returns in some equi…Korean retail investors bet the house as foreigners fleeSouth Korea's "ants" are winning the tug of war with foreign money. Retail investors have net purchased over 25 trillion won in 16 sessions, overwhelming more than 20 trillion won in foreign sellin…Korean retail investors defy government with record $3.1bn US stock bingeKorean 'Seohak Ants' nearly doubled their US stock purchases to $3.1 billion in January despite government tax incentives to redirect funds home. Interactive Brokers launched direct Korean stock ac…Oil consolidates above $100 as Pepperstone calls upsideBrent crude trades between $93-$103.50 per barrel in what Pepperstone's Dilin Wu calls a consolidation pointing to the upside. Korean and Japanese equities plunged over 10% from February highs as e…Samsung heir indicted for succession fraud as dynasty crumblesSouth Korean prosecutors indicted Lee Jae-yong for manipulating a 2015 merger between Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T to secure control "at the lowest possible cost." Ten other executives face cha…KOSPI leads global rally with 52% gainSouth Korea's KOSPI jumped 51.59 percent year-to-date, driven by semiconductor rebounds after the Iran war ceasefire pulled markets from March lows.South Korea hits record high on AI semiconductor surgeThe KOSPI closed at an all-time high as Samsung and SK Hynix rode AI chip demand to double-digit gains. Samsung's memory division reported 40% revenue growth quarter-over-quarter, driven entirely b…Korean stocks surge 6.8% as Iran war fears recedeSouth Korea's Kospi jumped over 6.8% with Samsung and SK Hynix each rising more than 10% as Trump's ceasefire announcement lifted the extreme energy vulnerability weighing on Asian markets. The ral…