KOSPI Falls Far Harder Than Nikkei as AI Earnings Scare Hits Chipmakers

South Korea’s KOSPI fell 4.77% from Thursday’s close to 5,654.61 by 10:40 a.m. Seoul time on Friday. The drop followed a 12.64% slide in Alphabet shares after the Google parent’s capital spending more than doubled. Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 2.81% over the same stretch, so KOSPI fell about 1.7 times as hard. Samsung Electronics and

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