Asia Chips Rally Lifts Nvidia, Samsung Shares
Asian stocks climbed Thursday, with gains in chipmakers after Nvidia’s outlook kept interest in AI plays and Samsung Electronics avoided a strike seen as a risk for the global chip supply chain. MSCI’s Asia-Pacific shares ex-Japan index gained 2.6%. South Korea’s KOSPI rallied more than 7%. Taiwan stocks rose 3.5%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 was up 3.6%. Dan Ives at Wedbush said it’s “Nvidia’s world with everybody else paying rent.” Tony Sycamore at IG called market moves “relatively muted.”
