Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul. Kim Jae-Hwan | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A wave of South Korean investors is flocking to U.S. markets to avoid a correction at home, even as global investors pile in. Korean retail investors net…
So many things have never happened before. That’s what’s so amazing about this market. Everywhere we turn, we see changes made that aren’t believed and yet are totally true. Take, for example, the following unbelievable year-to-date performances: SanDisk up 496%, Seagate up 238%, Club name Micron up 208%, and Western Digital up 171%. All four…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. Reddit was announced officially as the next addition to the S&P 500, prompting a rally for the social media stock in early trading. Stock futures are little changed this morning. Wall Street is coming off a winning day. Here are…
As Nvidia partners with Wall Street firms to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure, the increasingly complex financing underpinning the boom is coming under closer scrutiny. Hyperscalers and their financial backers are turning to bond markets, joint ventures, leases and other structures to fund an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. At the…
In South Korea, where a mountainous landscape makes building huge projects an incredible undertaking, the world’s leading maker of high-bandwidth computer memory is investing $720 billion on what it says will be the largest network of memory factories in the world. SK Hynix, whose market cap has jumped more than fivefold in the past year…
Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the latest edition of “Inside India“ — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest-growing large economy. India’s Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, also known as GIFT City, aspires to be what Hong Kong is to mainland China, or what Dubai International…
A man looks at a stock index board showing South Korea’s benchmark stock index (KOSPI) after the close of trading in Seoul on July 28, 2026. Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images South Korea’s Kospi has staged a reversal from its latest rout, returning to bull-market territory as investors pile back into the country’s…
Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London, UK, on Monday, June 16, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Yangtze Memory Technologies is rapidly gaining market share in a critical chip sector, according to Counterpoint Research. The company, also known as YMTC, landed in…
Employees celebrate the close of trading for the year at the Korea Exchange (KRX) on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korean stocks rallied Thursday, lifting the benchmark Kospi into a technical bull market as a global revival in the AI trade fuels a sharp recovery after last month’s…
Stock market bulls got some huge affirmation this week as the S&P 500 made all-time highs, options volumes set records, and shares of this year’s star IPO – SpaceX – stabilized and rallied despite its earnings report and the end of its first lockup period. On Friday, the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) fell to its…
