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Japan, South Korea stocks slide as AI fears hit chipmakers

Stocks in Tokyo and Seoul fell in early trading on Monday, October 19, after a selloff in U.S. technology shares. Japan's Nikkei 225 lost more than 1.7% and South Korea's Kospi was down more than 1%, while SoftBank Group dropped…

Nikkei plunges as CoreWeave debt fears hit AI stocks

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell about 5% on Thursday, October 15, as a global sell-off in technology stocks spread to Tokyo. The losses followed overnight reports that bonds issued by US cloud-computing provider CoreWeave were trading at distressed levels, and hotter-than-expected…

Goldman Sachs says BOJ could accelerate tightening beyond this week’s expected hike

Goldman Sachs's The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. economists say a rate hike at the Bank of Japan's meeting on September 17–18 is all but certain, and are increasingly betting the central bank will accelerate its tightening pace with a potential…

KOSPI jumps 3.5%, Nikkei tops 66,000 as chip stocks surge

Asian stock markets rallied on the morning of September 7 as a wave of buying in semiconductor shares swept through Tokyo and Seoul, lifting South Korea's KOSPI toward the 7,000 level and pushing Japan's Nikkei 225 above 66,000 points for…

Nikkei plunges over 2,100 points as Trump denies Iran talks

Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged more than 2,100 points at one stage on Wednesday, August 19, as a global risk-off wave gathered force after President Donald Trump denied any ongoing or planned talks with Iran and rising bond yields made high-valued…

Nikkei drops sharply as US-Iran truce expiry rattles Asian markets

Asian equity markets fell broadly on Tuesday as the expiry of a 60-day US-Iran ceasefire and surging global bond yields crushed risk appetite, sending Japan's Nikkei 225 to its worst session in weeks and triggering a dramatic intraday reversal in…

Nikkei tops 69,000 as cooling U.S. inflation lifts Asia

Japan's Nikkei 225 extended its rally on Friday, climbing more than 500 points at the open to trade above 69,000 as a record-setting session on Wall Street and cooler-than-expected U.S. inflation data fueled buying in AI and semiconductor stocks across…

Asian chip stocks slide as US semiconductor selloff spreads

Japanese and South Korean stock markets fell sharply on Thursday, August 6, as a broad retreat in US semiconductor stocks rippled across Asia, dragging down chip leaders and reversing gains from the prior session's rally.

Nikkei edges higher after US-Japan yen intervention rattled exporters

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell nearly 1% on Monday, dropping 607 points to close at 63,754.90, as a rare coordinated currency intervention by the United States and Japan pushed the yen sharply higher and weighed on the country's export-dependent manufacturers. The…

Nikkei tumbles as US-Japan joint yen intervention sends currency surging

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell sharply on Monday after Tokyo and Washington confirmed a rare joint currency intervention that sent the yen surging, reversing gains from a strong rally late last week. The benchmark index dropped 2.2% to 62,956.48, while the…

Nikkei 225 falls as Asian chip selloff deepens

Japan's Nikkei 225 closed at 61,434.19 on Wednesday, shedding 930.73 points, or 1.49%, as a punishing selloff in South Korean semiconductor stocks spilled into Tokyo and other regional markets. The decline pushed the index below the 62,000 level amid deepening…

Nikkei tumbles as chip stocks extend global selloff

Japan's Nikkei 225 fell sharply on Tuesday, July 28, dragged lower by heavy selling in semiconductor stocks after Nvidia declined 5% overnight on Wall Street and a report emerged that China has begun mass-producing domestic lithography equipment.

Nikkei, KOSPI tumble as Nvidia’s $750B AI deals stoke fears

Japanese and South Korean equities slid on Tuesday, July 28, as a deepening selloff in semiconductor stocks rippled across Asian markets. Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 3.37%, while South Korea's Kospi sank sharply, with heavyweight chipmakers dragging both indexes lower after…

Kioxia loses half its value in a month as chip stocks crater globally

Kioxia Holdings, the Japanese memory chipmaker that briefly became the country's most valuable listed company in June, saw its shares plunge 16% on Thursday, extending a punishing decline that has erased roughly half of its market capitalization in less than…

SoftBank shares surge as OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch fuels Asian rally

SoftBank Group shares surged more than 11% on Friday, briefly clearing ¥6,400, as investors cheered OpenAI's public release of its GPT-5.6 model family a day earlier. The rally made SoftBank the largest single contributor to Japan's Nikkei 225, which staged…

South Korea, Japan stocks surge as chip shares rebound

Markets across Japan and South Korea opened sharply higher on Thursday, July 9, snapping a three-day losing streak as investors moved to scoop up beaten-down semiconductor stocks following a punishing sell-off earlier in the week.

Asian stocks cap best quarter in 17 years on AI boom

Asian equity markets surged on Tuesday to cap their strongest quarter in nearly two decades, powered by an artificial intelligence boom in semiconductor stocks, even as a resurgent dollar pushed the yen to a four-decade low and dragged gold to…

Nikkei 225 falls for second day as global tech rout spreads

Japan's Nikkei 225 slipped on Wednesday, extending losses for a second consecutive session as the fallout from a global technology selloff continued to weigh on markets. The index opened at 69,845, below its previous close of 69,788.38, and traded lower…

Nikkei hits record above 71,000 after BOJ rate hike

The Bank of Japan on Tuesday raised its benchmark overnight call rate by 25 basis points to 1.0%, marking the highest borrowing costs in the country since 1995 and joining a global wave of monetary tightening driven by persistent inflation…