{"id":676410,"date":"2026-11-06T04:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676410\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T04:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:42:13","slug":"ai-investment-fears-spark-panic-selling-in-samsung-sk-hynix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676410\/","title":{"rendered":"AI investment fears spark panic selling in Samsung, SK hynix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/d703e1a6-406a-4ce6-9be4-0c76cba930bc.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1422; width: 100%\" alt=\"The KOSPI is displayed at Hana Bank\u2019s headquarters dealing room in Seoul, Friday morning. The KOSPI plunged more than 8 percent in early trading, triggering a circuit breaker. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The KOSPI is displayed at Hana Bank\u2019s headquarters dealing room in Seoul, Friday morning. The KOSPI plunged more than 8 percent in early trading, triggering a circuit breaker. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Fears that the artificial intelligence (AI) investment cycle may be nearing its peak triggered a wave of panic selling in semiconductor stocks, Friday, sending shares of Korea\u2019s two chipmaking giants, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, plunging nearly 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">As of 10:30 a.m., SK hynix had tumbled 10.28 percent, while Samsung Electronics had fallen 7.99 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The benchmark KOSPI opened 2.24 percent lower at 5,263.26 before triggering a circuit breaker just three minutes into the session, which temporarily suspends trading for 20 minutes when market movements become too volatile and breach a certain threshold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The index subsequently plunged more than 8 percent, falling below the 5,000 mark for the first time in 10 months since January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The KOSPI is displayed at Hana Bank\u2019s headquarters dealing room in Seoul, Friday morning. The KOSPI plunged more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-676410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}