Sangmi Cha

South Korea’s equity market has overtaken India’s as the world’s sixth largest, driven by a relentless surge in chip heavyweights powering the global artificial intelligence buildout.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its outlook for South Korean and Taiwanese stocks, as the artificial intelligence boom drives profits in the tech-heavy markets.

The rally in China’s semiconductor stocks is poised to extend thanks to upcoming blockbuster IPOs and technology breakthroughs, investors and analysts say.

A leveraged exchange-traded fund tied to SK Hynix Inc. surged 50% on Monday despite a drop of nearly 8% in the underlying stock, a dislocation that the fund house later blamed on a malfunction in its market-making system.

(Bloomberg) -- A leveraged exchange-traded fund tied to SK Hynix Inc. swung wildly for a second straight day, plunging as much as 40% on Tuesday

The manager of the largest leveraged exchange-traded fund tracking SK Hynix Inc. pushed back against claims that the $10 billion product is adding to volatility in the South Korean chipmaker’s shares.

South Korean stocks jumped as risk appetite improved after President Donald Trump said the US was nearing an agreement with Iran to end the war.

AFTER one of its most volatile weeks in years, South Korea's stock market is approaching a milestone it has long been chasing: a potential path into MSCI Inc's developed-market status.

South Korean authorities are weighing measures to curb risks from leveraged single-stock exchange-traded funds tracking Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., reflecting concern over an asset class whose popularity has surged with the AI boom.

South Korean stocks tumbled as investors sold off chip heavyweights on renewed concerns that the rally has become overstretched.