Weekly summary of key global market issues and investment strategies.
A Whipsaw Week Where a Capex Undid What a Cloud Lifted - a -4.46% Gap-Down That Settled the US Chip Bear Market, a Reclaim of 7,000 Pushed Up by Customs Semiconductor Exports of $22.1B (+180%) and Alphabet's Cloud +82%, and a -5.72% Friday That Handed the Rebound Back Whole on the $195-205B Capex Raise and Buyback Halt
Four Days with Deleveraging at the Controls — Black Monday's -8.95% and the Seventh Circuit Breaker of the Year, a CPI-Fueled +6.24% Rebound, and a -6.37% Thursday When a Rate Hike, a Leverage Crackdown, and China's Record IPO All Landed at Once
The Week Samsung Posted Record Earnings and Still Crashed -7% — a Peak-Out-Fear Circuit Breaker, a Two-Day -10% Plunge and a Two-Day Rebound, and SK Hynix's $26.5 Billion Nasdaq IPO, the Largest Ever by a Foreign Company
The Week KOSPI Crashed -7.89% in a Day and Rebounded +5.76% the Next — the Meta Cloud Shock, a 17-Year High in USDKRW at 1,555.8, a Payrolls Shock, and a Buy Sidecar
From an all-time high of 9,114 to two circuit breakers — KOSPI swung nearly 7% in a single week, Micron's earnings beat confirmed the memory supercycle, and the AI capital cycle kept flowing regardless of the short-term collapse
The Week KOSPI Crossed 9,000 for the First Time — an HBM4E-Led Memory Rally, Warsh's Hawkish FOMC, an Intel-Apple Deal, and a Korea-Only Record High on a Juneteenth Holiday
A Volatile Week Shaped by Iran Missiles and a 3-Year-High CPI — From a KOSPI Circuit Breaker (-8.29%) to an +8% Rebound, with Ceasefire Hopes Turning the Weekend
From Record Highs to an AI/Chip Plunge — A Week When Broadcom's Guidance and a Hot Jobs Report Hit Multiples at Once
DELL After-Hours +15% Big Beat + KOSPI 8,476 Record High — A Week When AI Infrastructure Revenue Proved Pricing Power Twice
NVIDIA Full Beat + Samsung Strike Settlement — S&P 8-Week Win Streak, Dow All-Time High as KOSPI Surges 6.55% in Single Day
KOSPI hits 8,000 and crashes -6.12% the next day — AI super-cycle fundamentals and multiple limits collapsed into a 4-hour window
KOSPI 7,000 Breakout + Samsung's $1T Club + AMD/ARM Beats — Korea Memory's Pricing Power Exports to US
Big Tech 4 earnings and META -6.15% — for now, the market only watches one CapEx number
SK Hynix 72% OpMargin · Intel +2,800% Surprise — Korea-US Semis Hit Record Highs Together
Hormuz Blockade → Back-to-Back S&P 7,000 & 7,100 → NASDAQ 13-Day Streak (Longest Since 1992) — Historic Rally
Samsung's KRW 57T Surprise → US-Iran 2-Week Truce → V-Shaped Rebound Week
Q1 Worst Close → Sidecar Surge → Trump 'Stone Age' Shock — A Week of Historic Volatility
TurboQuant Shock + ECB Rate Hike Hint + 5th Straight Weekly Decline — A Week of AI Semiconductor and Oil Double Headwinds