Seoul's circuit breakers fired before most U.S. investors finished their morning coffee, and a surprise inflation print from Washington is making a bad situation worse for anyone holding Korean chipmakers.
A brand-new ETF promises to carve pure Korean semiconductor exposure out of a market where most funds bury Samsung and SK Hynix under banks and automakers, but with three days of trading…
Korea's newest chip ETF bets almost everything on two memory giants at the exact moment HBM pricing and AI capex commitments could swing either way, and the fund is young enough that…
A new, narrowly focused semiconductor fund began trading this week. KICK Korea Semiconductor Index ETF (NYSEARCA:KCHP) launched on September 15, 2026, listed on NYSE Arca as the first product in a new…
A single investor day in Milpitas just sent shockwaves through Seoul, and the ripple effects are repricing an entire asset class that Korean giants are preparing to take public.
Memory chip stocks like Micron and SK Hynix have been wild rides, and some famous bears are already circling. But a quieter corner of the market may offer a smarter, steadier path…
Goldman Sachs just named a specific Kospi target that would make South Korean equities among the biggest winning trades of the decade, but it hinges on two chip giants delivering something the…
Semiconductor stocks just took a bruising, but the companies powering every major AI buildout are nowhere near done growing. Three ETFs offer very different ways to position for the rebound, and the…
Korea's country ETF booked triple-digit gains while most Asia funds left investors watching from the sidelines, and the same AI hardware boom that drove that run is quietly powering two other markets…
While a justifiable amount of A.I. attention has been devoted to faster and more powerful semiconductor processing chips, the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) part of the equation is less sexy, but…
The 2026 rally in North Asian equities has been led by the two countries that fabricate the world’s most advanced semiconductors. The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) is up 103% year…
The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) just gave back a chunk of its blockbuster year in a single week. EWY closed near $192, down roughly 12% on its most recent trading…
The iShares China Large-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:FXI) is the default way most U.S. investors play China’s AI trade. FXI holds the country’s biggest tech names, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Meituan, and JD, which is…
David Tepper added to his position in the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) during the first quarter of 2026, building on a stake he first established in the fourth quarter of…
If you owned iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) on Friday morning, you had a roughly $204 share by the closing bell that was worth $175.19, a roughly 14% single-day decline that,…
