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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…ASX jumps on listings rebound, Treasury Wine earnings drop 36%ASX Ltd shares had their biggest one-day jump in six years after flagging a stronger listings pipeline, with new IPOs up 37% to 92 in 2025 from 67 the year before, and average returns on those list…ABN AMRO raises guidance after profit jumps 29%Q2 net profit hit €781 million, well above the €686 million analysts expected, pushing the bank to lift its 2026 commercial NII guidance to €6.8 billion and cut cost guidance to €5.5 billion, now f…Westpac's mortgage pipeline just fell off a cliffHome loan applications at Westpac dropped from roughly 33,000 a month to about 27,000 after Australia's federal budget floated changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, a 20% fall that Reu…Versant Media shares jump on raised outlookStrong viewership numbers pushed Versant to lift guidance, a rare bright spot for a traditional media stock this earnings season.Chip stocks stall, and Asia catches the coldA pause in the chipmaker rally is not a correction, but after eighteen months of Nvidia-led gains carrying entire regional indices, even a pause moves everything downstream. Asian markets opened lo…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 …Consumer names quietly had a very good quarterWhile the AI trade wobbles, the unglamorous end of the market is delivering. Mondelez, Sherwin-Williams, Bloom Energy, and Centene all raised full-year guidance this week, and Rio Tinto lifted its …Defence stocks jump on hopes John Healey has Treasury backing to spendBAE Systems and Babcock shares climbed on speculation that Healey's move to the Treasury signals a chancellor sympathetic to raising defence spending beyond the current 2.5% of GDP target, rather t…Chip stocks slide as oil climbs, and the two are connectedA semiconductor selloff landing on the same day as an oil spike isn't coincidence. Rising Brent raises input costs and inflation expectations, which pushes rate-cut odds down, which hits the long-d…Netflix shares slide on weak growth forecastSubscriber growth guidance came in soft enough to spook a stock that's been priced for perfection all year. With ad-tier momentum slowing and password-sharing crackdown gains largely banked already…Intuitive Surgical falls on ACA and GLP-1 headwindsWeight-loss drugs are starting to dent demand for bariatric and related surgical procedures, while ACA marketplace changes threaten the insured patient volumes Intuitive's robotic systems depend on…Ocado shares plunge 18% on tech licensing strugglesThe division meant to prove Ocado is a software company rather than just a grocer with robots failed to convince the market again. Licensing revenue from its automated warehouse tech has repeatedly…SpaceX slipping below its IPO price is the market pricing Musk risk, not Starlink riskShares dipped under the listing price for the first time since going public, and bond yields are drifting toward junk territory, which is a much bigger tell than the equity move. Starlink revenue a…IBM's stock is being punished for other people's AI hypeIBM built a genuinely defensible enterprise AI and hybrid cloud business, and the market is still marking it down alongside every other name caught in a broader tech selloff. That's the risk of a r…Best quarter since the pandemic, and nobody quite believes itQ2 2026 closes with the S&P 500 and European equities posting their strongest quarterly gains since 2020, which is a remarkable outcome for a period that opened with a tariff shock, a bond wobble, …Edgewell's shares jump after it rejects a takeover approachA target company's shares rising on a rejected bid usually means the market thinks a higher offer is coming, not that the board made the right call. Edgewell, which owns Schick and Wilkinson Sword,…SpaceX's $75bn IPO makes Musk the world's first trillionaire and hands him an acquisition war chestSpaceX opened on Nasdaq at $150 per share, roughly 11% above its IPO price, and closed day one near $161, generating approximately $75 billion in proceeds and pushing Musk's net worth past the tril…Elon Musk's Wall Street consolidation play is the business story hiding behind the headlinesThe emerging read on Musk's corporate strategy is not the personality spectacle but the financial architecture: using Tesla's balance sheet, xAI's compute narrative, and X's data assets as interlin…£300 monthly savings could build £176k pension potUK personal finance coverage highlights that investing £300 monthly for 25 years in 5% yielding dividend shares could compound to £176,436, though the projection depends on consistently achieving t…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…Unilever CFO defends food business sale as focused strategyFernando Fernández pushed back at criticism that breaking up Unilever shows management laziness, saying he is "not paid to be lazy" while defending the $15.7 billion deal to combine the food unit w…Treasury Wine shares surge on US operations reviewThe Australian winemaker announced a strategic review of its underperforming US business, with asset sales and exits from lower-margin labels under consideration.Hormel shares rise on turnaround progressHormel Foods posted Q2 net sales of $2.90 billion with 1% organic growth, beating expectations and prompting management to narrow fiscal 2025 guidance. Operating income hit $248 million while adjus…Canadian banks BMO and Scotiabank hike dividends on stronger earningsTwo of Canada's Big Six banks just signaled confidence in credit quality by raising quarterly payouts after beating earnings estimates. BMO lifted its dividend to C$1.67 per share while Scotiabank …Kuaishou's Kling AI hits $500m run rate, eyes $20bn spinoffTwo years after launch, Kuaishou's video generation AI now runs at $500 million annualized revenue, double its pre-Lunar New Year pace. The Chinese TikTok rival is evaluating spinning off Kling at …Pets at Home profit drops 60% despite new ranges and price cutsThe UK's largest pet retailer saw statutory profits plunge around 60% even as its turnaround plan starts showing sales traction in the second half. Pets at Home invested £4 million cutting prices o…Walmart sees consumer stress as gas tank fill-ups fall below 10 gallonsAverage fuel purchases at Walmart stations dropped below 10 gallons for the first time since 2022, signaling cash flow strain among lower-income shoppers. CFO John David Rainey called it a clear st…Nvidia lifts token dividend as growth fears weigh on sharesNvidia raised its quarterly dividend to $0.01 per share, maintaining an annual yield around 0.02% that keeps the stock firmly in growth territory despite record earnings. The company returned $41.1…Urban Outfitters rides Free People strength to record quarterUrban Outfitters posted record Q3 sales of $1.53 billion and net income of $116.4 million as Free People and Anthropologie offset weakness at the namesake brand. Free People's wholesale business dr…Elliott builds stake in Bio-Rad as activist targets expandElliott has built a sizeable position in Bio-Rad Laboratories, betting it can unlock value from a company that's down 70% from pandemic highs and trading like a broken growth story. The activist's …Cisco jumps 18% on cloud provider AI hardware ordersNetwork equipment demand surges as hyperscalers build out data center infrastructure.Memory shortage hands pricing power to Micron cartelThe three companies controlling 90% of global memory supply just discovered what monopoly pricing looks like. Micron's shares jumped 38% last week after executives said demand is "nowhere close" to…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…Shiseido's profit surge can't mask collapsing salesCost-cutting can only paper over so many problems. Shiseido's core operating profit jumped 21% while net sales fell 8.5% in Q1, exposing the hollowing out of its business model. Drunk Elephant sale…CSL crashes to 8-year low as $60bn erasedAustralia's former healthcare darling hit A$125.78, down 49.91 percent over 12 months and wiping A$60 billion from its market cap after dismal half-year results triggered another confidence collaps…Atlassian shares jump 25% as AI finally pays offThe collaboration software maker beat revenue estimates with $1.79 billion in Q3, up 32% year-over-year, and raised full-year growth forecasts from 22% to 24%. Rovo, Atlassian's AI search agent, no…Apple stock rebounds as Ternus succession plan lands smoothlyShares recovered from a 2.5% initial drop to finish up 2.6% at $273 after the company announced Tim Cook's transition to executive chairman and John Ternus's promotion to CEO effective September 1.…Meta shares crater 13% as AI spending reality bitesMeta stock fell 13% this week after the company raised 2026 capex guidance to $145 billion, driven by AI infrastructure and a Texas data center that ballooned from $1.5 billion to $10 billion. Lega…JPMorgan and UBS call time on European stocksTwo of Europe's biggest equity cheerleaders just turned bearish for 2025. JPMorgan and UBS see minimal upside left in European markets this year, marking a decisive shift from their previous bullis…