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13 Jul 2026

South Korea's KOSPI stock market trading has been halted for 20 minutes after crashing -8%.

Over ₩488,000,000,000,000 ($328 BILLION) has been wiped out from South Korean stocks today. Source: Bull Theory

10 Jul 2026

Massive Reversal in Asian Markets

Over $500 BILLION has been added to Asian stocks today as semiconductor and AI stocks rebounded after the recent sell-off, following a strong close on U.S. stocks. South Korea's KOSPI is up +4.6%, adding ₩280.6 trillion ($189B). Japan's NIKKEI is up +1.6%, adding ¥22.9 trillion ($139B). Taiwan is up +1.2%, adding NT4.1 trillion ($50B). China's SSE is up +0.8%, adding ¥520 billion ($73B). Hong Kong's HSI is up +1.5%, adding HK$131.6 billion ($17B). India's NIFTY is up +1.0%, adding ₹4.9 trillion ($57B). Source: Bull Theory

8 Jul 2026

🚨 BLOODBATH continues in South Korean and Japanese markets.

Over $400 BILLION has been wiped out from South Korean and Japanese stock markets today as the sell-off in semiconductor and tech stocks continues. South Korea's KOSPI closed down -5.35%, wiping out ₩326,350,000,000,000 ($219 BILLION). Japan's NIKKEI closed down -2.11%, wiping out over ¥30,173,000,000,000 ($184 BILLION). Over $850 BILLION has been wiped out from both markets in just two days. Source: Bull Theory @BullTheoryio

7 Jul 2026

🚨 Samsung just delivered a reality check for the AI trade.

Its quarterly operating profit surged, powered by booming AI memory demand and higher DRAM prices. Analysts still expect memory shortages to persist through 2027. Yet the stock fell. Why? Because in today's market, good isn't good enough when perfection is already priced in. This marks an important shift. The first phase of the AI boom was driven by the obvious bottlenecks: semiconductors, memory, and AI infrastructure. Capital poured into the same names. Nvidia led. The semiconductor index soared. Now those trades are crowded. The fundamentals remain strong, but investors are asking a different question: Can earnings keep exceeding already sky-high expectations? AI isn't over. But the easy money from owning the obvious AI winners may be. Source: Bloomberg, James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy

6 Jul 2026

South Korea's KOSPI has crashed -6% from today's high as foreign investors continue to sell ahead of Samsung's earnings report.

Foreign investors sold ₩2,200,000,000,000 worth of Korean stocks today, marking their 11th consecutive day of net selling. Their cumulative net sales have now reached ₩157.3 trillion ($116 billion) since 2026. Samsung is set to release its Q2 earnings on July 7, with Q2 operating profit expected to surge 18x. Source: Bull Theory

6 Jul 2026

Japanese Yen will collapse to 165 against the U.S. Dollar, its weakest level since 1986, warns Goldman Sachs

Source: Barchart, Bloomberg

2 Jul 2026

A possible catalyst for bitcoin?

South Korean retail investors were once among Bitcoin's biggest marginal buyers. Those flows have largely disappeared as speculation shifted toward domestic equities, particularly high-beta names such as SK Hynix and Samsung amid the KOSPI rally. If that speculative capital starts rotating out of Korean equities, could some of it find its way back into crypto? It may be too early to say, but a reversal in the KOSPI is one potential catalyst we're watching closely. Source: TME

2 Jul 2026

In case you missed it... 🚨 AI stock euphoria just hit a wall in Asia.

More than $730 billion in market value has been erased across Asian equity markets today as AI and semiconductor stocks came under heavy selling pressure. 🇰🇷 South Korea's KOSPI: -7.89% ($324B wiped out) 🇯🇵 Japan's Nikkei: -2.47% ($214B wiped out) 🇨🇳 China's Shanghai Composite: -2.1% ($191B wiped out) The selloff follows two major warnings over the weekend. The IMF cautioned that AI-related equity valuations have become increasingly speculative and detached from fundamentals. Meanwhile, Wealspring Asset, whose founder famously called the 2007 market peak, warned that a massive global AI bubble has formed, adding that its "collapse point may not be far away." After months of relentless optimism, markets are suddenly being forced to price in the possibility that AI expectations have run too far, too fast. Source: Bull Theory

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