South Korea's KOSPI fell 201.89 points, or 3.52%, to 5,533.77 on Thursday, its lowest close since April 7, as chipmakers led losses amid profit-taking and renewed skepticism over the global AI investment boom. The drop followed a 3.3% rally on Wednesday, the index's biggest one-day gain in six weeks. A hawkish Bank of Korea stance also reinforced expectations of further rate hikes. Earnings from Meta and Tesla failed to deliver the same market lift as results linked to SpaceX and SMCI, leaving c

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Hong Kong stocks slid at mid-session. The Hang Seng fell 2.87% to 22,971.93, breaching the 23,000 level; the Hang Seng TECH dropped 4.64% to 3,809.5, off more than 30% year-to-date. Optical communications, PCB and electronic equipment components led losses and tech names were broadly sold; nearly all Hang Seng and Hang Seng TECH constituents were lower, with only Midea Group (00300.HK) marginally up. Selected movers: Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable (06869.HK) down >10%; Tianshu Zhixin (09903.HK) down >9%; Lenovo Group (00992.HK) and Zhipu Technology (02513.HK) down >8%; WuXi Biologics (02269.HK) and Huahong Hongli (01347.HK) down >7%; NetEase (09999.HK) and MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) down >6%; CATL (03750.HK) and Alibaba (09988.HK) down about 6%. Top risers included Naodong Jiguang-B (06681.HK) up 48.3%, Shandong Molong (00568.HK) up 3.8% and Wuyi Vision (06651.HK) up >2%.