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Tech stocks led the way higher, with Intel and Micron among the gainers. The advance comes ahead of a series of tests for the AI trade this week.

The listing will make it easier to invest in one of the world’s biggest chip companies. The sector helped the Nasdaq composite rise 1.1%.

Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) is the most directly tradeable name tied to Appaloosa’s haul. Bloomberg identified Micron as one of the fund’s biggest winners alongside Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings, and Sandisk Corp., all of which Tepper rode through an AI-infrastructure spending boom that has reshaped the memory-chip landscape in 2025 and into 2026.

Record profit expectations put the memory giant at the center of the AI investment story.

SK Hynix (KRX: 000660) said it plans to raise about $28 billion through a United States initial public offering (IPO) as the South Korean memory chipmaker seeks to tap sustained investor demand tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure growth. The company will offer 17.79 million common...

Samsung Electronics earnings, SK Hynix’s U.S. listing and TSMC’s June sales will give investors fresh clues on demand for AI memory chips and the durability of this year’s semiconductor rally.

Investors are assessing strong momentum for hardware companies in the first half of the year.

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BE Semiconductor stock tumbled after a report said that some of the Dutch group’s main customers are delaying uptake of its advanced hybrid bonding technology. Memory chip makers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix —which are customers of Besi—are questioning the need to adopt hybrid bonding technology for their most advanced chip stacks, Korean news outlet ZDNet reported, citing unnamed sources. Besi is the market leader in advanced hybrid bonding, a technology that fuses chips together at a molecular level.

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U.S. stock futures were higher in early European morning trading while changes in the dollar and Treasurys were limited as both continued to trade on last week’s jobs data.

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Samsung Electronics (OTC:SSNLF) on Tuesday is expected to deliver another record-breaking quarter as surging AI-driven demand for memory chips continues to lift prices, though higher employee bonus costs could weigh on reported earnings. AI Memory Boom Expected to Drive Another Record Quarter Samsung is expected to report an operating profit of about 86 trillion won ($56.35 billion) for the April-to-June quarter, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate based on forecasts from 30 analysts, Reuters rep

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South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix will on Monday launch its about $28 billion U.S. listing, according to its regulatory ‌filings, in one of the world's largest new share sales ‌as it capitalizes on the global AI boom. The company will sell 17.79 million new shares ​in the depository receipt listing on the Nasdaq, making it one of the world's most valuable tech firms. Ten ADRs will represent one common share and the stock will be sold in a price range due to be ‌revealed on Monday, based on ⁠SK Hynix's Seoul trading price.

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Samsung Electronics is likely to estimate that its operating profit jumped about 18-fold to another record high from a year earlier in the second quarter, as AI growth continues to strain memory supply and push chip prices higher. On Tuesday, the ‌world's largest memory chipmaker by sales is likely to flag an operating profit of 86 trillion won ($56.35 billion) for the April to June quarter, according ‌to an LSEG SmartEstimate based on forecasts from 30 analysts, weighted toward those with the best track records.

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Shares of European semiconductor companies were following their Asian peers in green territory, a day after investors shunned stocks linked to artificial intelligence.

Shares rallied in Asia on Friday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average set another record, as some key AI related stocks rose while others extended losses. U.S. futures were moderately higher and oil prices also rose. Samsung Electronics, the country's biggest company and a major maker of computer chips, gained 7%.

Micron Technology just delivered the best quarter in its history. However, three days later, a federal courtroom in California turned that story upside down. A class-action lawsuit filed on June 25 accuses Micron (MU), Samsung, and SK Hynix of secretly restricting memory chip supply to inflate ...

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U.S. recruitment slowed significantly in June, dampening some of the employment growth momentum observed earlier this year.

American employers added 57,000 new jobs last month, the Labor Department said Thursday. Memory stocks were particularly hard hit, with Sandisk falling 14.1% and Samsung Electronics declining 9.1% overnight.

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A fourth straight month of gains above 100,000 would represent a run of job growth not seen since the start of 2024

The slide appears to reflect concerns that tech companies have built more AI computing capacity than they really need, says Mohit Kumar, chief European economist at Jefferies. Those fears were rekindled ...

Asian markets mostly fell on Thursday as a heavy sell-off in chip shares spread across the region, while European stocks opened flat and US futures pointed lower ahead of a closely watched American jobs report.View on euronews

Wall Street was mixed in light trading early Thursday as chip stocks fell further and oil prices dipped near their levels before the Iran war began. Futures for the S&P 500 were unchanged before the opening bell, while Dow Jones Industrial futures inched up 0.2%. Nasdaq futures were off 0.4%.

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Global shares are pulling back after a bumper quarter.