A ceasefire signal from Washington lit a fuse under Asian chip stocks, sending the KOSPI up 4.63% and Samsung nearly 8% as foreigners bought after weeks of selling.
Japan’s Kioxia overtook Toyota as the country’s most valuable listed company, a stunning marker of how artificial-intelligence demand for memory chips is reshaping the regional pecking order.
Today’s Asia Intelligence Brief covers the region’s finance, markets, economy and politics, drawn from Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi and English sources.
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