Foreign investors pull over $100B from South Korean stocks as KOSPI nearly doubles

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The post Equities: Mixed reaction to US-Iran tensions – Deutsche Bank appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid highlights that Asian equities are mostly lower as investors digest a sharp escalation in US-Iran tensions and surging Oil prices. KOSPI is down over 5% and the Nikkei and S&P/ASX 200 are weaker, while mainland Chinese indices and the Hang Seng are firmer on tech gains. S&P, Nasdaq and Stoxx futures are described as broadly flat. Tech-led divergence across Asia “Asian equity markets are largely lower this morning as investors digest a significant escalation in US-Iran tensions overnight.” “Against this backdrop, risk sentiment across Asia is weak but not as much as you may have imagined given the attacks. S&P, Nasdaq and Stoxx futures are all pretty much flat with the rest of Asia down or up depending on which side of the tech stack they sit on.” “The KOSPI losses have accelerated as I’m typing, currently down -5.57% in what seem very fast markets with the

The post South Korea: Tech-led strain and shifting flows – BNY appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. BNY’s Geoff Yu highlights that institutional investors are exiting South Korean equities, contributing to the KOSPI’s brief bear-market move, while retail buyers still support the market. He notes concerns over AI and semiconductor concentration, questions the sustainability of retail support, and contrasts South Korea with more measured liquidation in Taiwan and ongoing interest in Chinese equities. Institutional selling pressures KOSPI “iFlow data suggest institutional investors are continuing to exit South Korean equities en masse, likely contributing to the KOSPI’s brief move into bear market territory overnight. Retail investors remain on the other side of the trade, but the market is increasingly questioning how sustainable that support is. Taiwanese equities have also benefited from the AI and semiconductor narrative, though liquidation there has been more measured in scale and pa

The post Chip Stock Plunge: Nvidia (NVDA), Micron (MU), and AMD (AMD) Lead Semiconductor Sector Decline appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways Semiconductor stocks experienced widespread declines as profit-taking swept through the AI chip sector SpaceX shares slipped following its Nasdaq-100 addition in a textbook “sell the news” scenario Nvidia continued its decline amid reports of DeepSeek developing proprietary AI processors in China Micron remained under selling pressure even as AI memory market fundamentals stay robust Samsung’s impressive quarterly earnings growth couldn’t reverse negative sentiment in chip equities Understanding Tuesday’s Semiconductor Sector Weakness Technology stocks experienced broad-based weakness on Tuesday as market participants secured profits following an extended rally in artificial intelligence-related equities. Major players including Nvidia, Broadcom, AMD, Intel, and Micron all posted declines, dragging the Philadelphia Semiconductor Inde

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The post Dow Jones tags a record, then hides behind its dullest stocks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Dow Jones Industrial Average spent Tuesday arriving late to a party the rest of the market had already begun to leave. The index tagged a fresh intraday record near 53,300 at the New York open around 13:30 GMT, then handed the gains straight back as a rotation out of artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor names swept the tape. By the close it had shed more than 500 points from that high, finishing near 52,850 and down about 0.35%, which on Tuesday counted as resilience. The awkward part is that the record barely outlasted the opening auction, and it survived at all only because of the same stodgy, tech-light makeup that has made the index this year’s laggard. The Nasdaq Composite lost more than 1% and the S&P 500 roughly half that, while the Dow’s heavier weighting in healthcare, financials and consumer staples did exactly what it is built to do when the fashionable t

The post Morgan Stanley Initiates SpaceX Coverage With Wall Street-High $300 Price Target appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key highlights: Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of SpaceX (SPCX) with an Overweight rating and a $300 price target The target is among the highest on Wall Street and implies roughly 87%-90% upside from recent trading levels Analysts believe AI infrastructure, Starlink, and orbital computing could become major long-term revenue drivers Morgan Stanley has become one of the most bullish firms on Wall Street regarding SpaceX, launching coverage of the recently public company with an Overweight rating and a $300 price target. The target stands well above the stock’s recent trading price near $160 and is among the highest published forecasts for the aerospace and artificial intelligence company.  Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas argues that investors are still underestimating the scale of SpaceX’s long-term opportunities beyond rockets and satellite internet.  AI