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KOSPI (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) is the benchmark stock market index tracking all common shares listed on South Korea's Korea Exchange.
Nasdaq Composite fell 2.14% on Friday and about 4.5% on the week, its worst since June, as investors doubted AI-linked debt, CNN reported. CoreWeave, a GPU renter with tens of billions in debt, saw bond yields rise to distress levels.
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Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% on Thursday, enough to halt trading for 20 minutes, after US September CPI came in at 3.7%. The print landed on a chip sector already sliding, and the clearest sign of costlier financing sits in AI borrowers' bonds.
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Korea's five largest banks added 67.1 trillion won of time deposits since end-June while brokerage cash accounts lost 24.2 trillion won. The outflow equals about 36% of the gain, so July and August policy rate increases are a second explanation for the inflow.
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KOSPI rose 2.05% to 5,668.05 on Friday, ending a seven-day losing streak. Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, which fell 9.48% and 11.06% the session before, are still about 7% and 10% below their earlier closes.
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South Korea's won closed at 1,331.4 per dollar, its strongest since Oct. 2, 2024, after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh gave no signal on October's meeting. The 13.2-won gain came a day after KOSPI fell more than 7%, so how long it holds depends on foreign money.
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Korea Exchange activated a buy-side sidecar on KOSDAQ at 12:55 p.m. Friday as the index rose 5.27% to 800.90, a day after closing down 7.65%. That recovers about 64% of the point loss; the reports do not include turnover data to test the liquidity case.
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Goldman data show Asia-focused stock pickers fell 2.6% and tech funds 2.0% on Oct. 15, the third day of 2026 all broad hedge fund strategies lost over 0.8%. Funds sold global AI stocks on net from Oct. 8 to 14, so the losses came on books already being cut.
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HD Hyundai Electric traded up 8.83% at 530,000 won, the biggest gain among Korea's 50 largest stocks, after an LG CNS memorandum on AI data center power. The memorandum covers joint marketing and data sharing, so the gain is a bet on contracts not yet won.
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South Korea's finance ministry, central bank and regulators will monitor markets jointly in real time after the KOSPI fell to a six-month low of 5,554. Officials blame rate expectations, AI-chip doubts and oil, and the measures reported are monitoring and enforcement.
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Kospi opened up 1.8% on Friday after a 7.57% plunge to 5,554.22 that Yonhap tied to AI-trade worries and US inflation. The chip names trailed the index while banks and defense led, so the early rebound does not show the AI worry has eased.
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South Korea's Kospi fell to about 5,550 on Oct. 15 after US inflation came in hotter than expected. Euronews put the day's drop at 7.7%; Seoul Economic Daily counts a seventh straight loss and 55 trillion won of chipmaker buybacks now wound down.
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South Korea's stocks fell 7.5% and Japan's 5% on AI financing fears, then the selling faded in Europe and the US, channelnewsasia.com reported. The cost of insuring major US AI firms against default hit a record the same day, and we think the debt is where the risk now sits.
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Seoul's Kospi closed down 7.57% after a circuit breaker, as chipmakers sold off on U.S. inflation data. BlackRock's Fink says halting data centers means recession. HSBC's Roberts says lenders want higher returns first.
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JPMorgan says the dip buyers and short covering behind July's chip bounce after a 21% SOX drop are missing in October. Strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou do not expect a rapid rebound in AI infrastructure or memory stocks, according to Crypto Briefing's summary of the October 14 report.
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Bitcoin traded to just above $80,000 as South Korea's Kospi plunged 8% and triggered circuit breakers, CoinDesk reported. Altcoins took the heavier losses, with the CoinDesk 80 down 2.2% against 0.7% for the CoinDesk 5.
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Seoul's Kospi fell 7.57% to 5,554.22 on Thursday, tripping a sidecar and a 20-minute circuit breaker as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix sank. The reports carry prices and flows but no valuations, and say nothing about whether chip shares were overpriced.
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Korea's Kospi closed down 7.57% at 5,554.22 on October 15, tripping its circuit breaker, as SK Hynix lost 11.35% and Samsung Electronics 9.70%. Both fell harder than the index.
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Kospi fell 7.6% as an AI-stock selloff pushed investors into bonds, taking the 10-year Treasury yield down nine basis points to 5.09%. Bloomberg's own strategist calls the bond move tactical, so one session is thin evidence that funding for AI buildouts has tightened.
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Kospi was down 7.77% at 10:30 a.m. Thursday as foreign investors extended net selling to eight sessions, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Domestic buyers took about 91% of what foreigners sold.
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Exchanges closed $483 million of bitcoin and ether futures over 24 hours as bitcoin fell below $81,000. CoinGlass data in two reports agree on the total, but only crypto.news ties it to the 3.7% September CPI and an 8% Kospi drop.
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