Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on July 14 it launched a military operation codenamed Nasr-2, targeting multiple ammunition depots, a satellite communications center and a building housing US forces in Bahrain. The IRGC said the strikes were in response to the enemy's latest aggression, had "inflicted significant damage", and that retaliatory strikes were still ongoing.

集运指数（欧线）主力合约日内涨超5.00%，现报2544.5点。

SK Hynix fell nearly 10% on its second day of US trading. Underlying volatility in Korea has been acute: after Korean regulators warned of a chip-sector overheat, the KOSPI plunged almost 10% on June 23; three days later (June 26) memory-demand worries triggered an index circuit breaker; on July 13 KOSPI dropped about 9% amid Iran-related risk, again tripping a market-wide circuit breaker. These moves have shown early global transmission—following the June 23 selloff the Nasdaq fell more than 2%, and it closed down 1.55% after the July 13 KOSPI decline. SK Hynix’s US listing, reportedly ~7x oversubscribed, effectively embeds one of Korea’s most leveraged, volatility-prone stocks into US investor portfolios. Market mechanics cited in the note: amplified retail leverage in Korea magnifies chip-sector swings, weighing on global AI demand expectations, while repricing of US Treasuries tightens liquidity—together increasing potential for broader spillovers. This is not a forecast of imminent systemic crisis: semiconductor demand supporting Samsung and SK Hynix remains real and growing, but KOSPI concentration and leverage-driven volatility raise the risk that shocks in Korea propagate more widely than expected.