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Samsung Electronics' shares surged on Thursday after it clinched an 11th-hour deal with its South Korean union to ‌avert a strike, although the terms which included bonuses of around $416,000 for some workers ‌gave rise to some concern. A planned 18-day strike by some 48,000 union members has now been suspended, while the agreement, which ​was mediated by the government, is put to a vote between May 22 and May 27. The deal sparked relief across South Korea.

South Korean stocks rallied after Samsung Electronics Co. reached a tentative deal with its labor union, defusing the threat of an imminent strike at the world's largest memory chipmaker.

Shares rallied Thursday across Asia, tracking gains on Wall Street after pressure from the bond market eased and oil prices fell back. The advance was also powered by a stronger-than-expected quarterly report from chipmaker Nvidia, whose profit rocketed more than 200% higher in the February-April quarter from a year earlier, while revenue jumped 85%. Nvidia has been one of the biggest beneficiaries from the boom in artificial intelligence, thanks to powerful demand for its high-end AI chips.

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Samsung Electronics' shares rose as much as 6.5% in morning trade on ‌Thursday after the tech giant and its ‌South Korean union reached a tentative pay deal, potentially averting a ​strike that had threatened to hit the economy and undermine global chip supply chains. The union said the planned 18-day strike by nearly 48,000 members would be suspended ‌while the tentative 11th-hour ⁠deal is put to a vote between May 22 and 27. Ryu Young-ho, a senior analyst at NH Investment & Securities, said investors were relieved ​that uncertainty ​surrounding the prospect of ​a strike had eased.

19% Chip stocks such as Nvidia have grown to represent roughly that share of the S&P 500 index—their highest percentage on record, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis. In South Korea, tech giants SK Hynix and Samsung have grown to comprise nearly half of the entire Kospi index.

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The South Korean government has warned that it could invoke emergency powers to avert a strike by Samsung workers set to start tomorrow, noting the company's outsize importance for the economy. At the heart of the disagreement is a debate over how Samsung’s huge profits from the AI windfall should be shared. An 18-day strike could reduce Samsung’s operating profit by roughly 5% this year, according to Morningstar analyst Jing Jie Yu.

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Samsung Electronics' labour union plans to embark on a massive 18-day strike on Thursday after bonus payment talks with management collapsed and attention is now focused on whether the government will issue an ‌emergency arbitration order. Some 48,000 people plan to walk off the job with significant consequences for the South Korean economy and the ‌supply of memory chips globally, and the government flagged at the weekend that such an order is possible. A South Korean government official said on Wednesday that talk of emergency arbitration is premature and that there was still time for dialogue.

The South Korean chip maker said it couldn’t accept the union’s demands, including compensation even for unprofitable business units.

Management and union leaders at Samsung Electronics failed to reach a last-minute deal over wages Wednesday, raising prospects for a strike at the South Korean electronics giant that could rattle global semiconductor supplies and the country’s trade-dependent economy. Government officials have threatened to invoke rarely used emergency powers to force a settlement at Samsung, where the union, which represents about 74,000 workers, says the company has failed to offer adequate compensation despite its soaring profits fueled by the global boom in artificial intelligence. After the latest round of talks ended without a breakthrough on Wednesday, union leader Choi Seung-ho told reporters that unionized workers will begin an 18-day strike from Thursday.

Samsung Electronics' management and its labour union resumed talks on Wednesday with only one day ‌to go before a planned major strike that threatens the health of South Korea's ‌economy and could disrupt the global supply of semiconductors. Park said he had proposed a compromise plan, which is being reviewed by Samsung. Should management accept ⁠the proposal, it will be put to a vote by Samsung's union members as early as Wednesday.

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South Korean memory chip maker Samsung Electronics is facing its worst-ever strike, with nearly 48,000 workers threatening to walk off production lines on Thursday for 18 days over a dispute about bonus payouts. Samsung's union has asked the company to abolish a cap that limits bonuses to 50% of annual salaries and to ‌allocate 15% of annual operating profit to a bonus pool that would be distributed to workers. It also wants Samsung to make the changes binding beyond this year.

China's top flash memory chipmaker YMTC has begun the so-called "tutoring" process ‌for a potential initial public offering, where ‌a company receives formal pre-IPO guidance from an investment bank, ​a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday. Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) has hired CITIC Securities, a Chinese state-owned investment bank, to guide its IPO preparation ahead of ‌a potential stock ⁠market listing.

By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, May 19 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labour union began another round of government-mediated talks on Tuesday to break an impasse in negotiations over pay

Asian shares were mixed Tuesday as uncertainty about what will happen with the Iran war roiled global markets. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.6% in morning trading to 60,433.79, erasing initial gains after the government reported that the economy grew for the second straight quarter in January-March, mainly due to better than expected consumer spending. Shares in Samsung Electronics slipped 3.8% and SK Hynix fell 4%, tracking losses in tech shares overnight on Wall Street.

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Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labour union began another round of talks on Tuesday to break an impasse in bonus negotiations, ‌after dialogue on Monday did not produce an agreement. The two sides are under mounting pressure ‌to avert an imminent strike that threatens to hurt the Korean economy and chip production, but remained far apart during the ​government-mediated pay talks on Monday. Media reports said on Tuesday, citing the chairman of the National Labor Relations Commission that Samsung and the labour ‌union are narrowing some differences.

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Nvidia earnings report is expected to be the main event for tech investors this week.

Nvidia earnings report is expected to be the main event for tech investors this week.

Nvidia earnings report is expected to be the main event for tech investors this week.