{"data":{"id":2646,"lang":"en","title":"Asian Tech Stocks Plunge as South Korea Halts Trading After Wall Street Chip Rout","summary":"Korea triggered a circuit breaker as KOSPI fell as much as 8.7% after a Wall Street tech selloff driven by data center worries.","category":"business","category_label":"Business","published_at":"2026-11-06T15:01:12Z","updated_at":"2026-11-06T15:01:12Z","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/article/2646-asian-tech-stocks-plunge-as-south-korea-halts-trading-after-wall-street-chip","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2646?lang=en","markdown_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2646.md?lang=en","image_url":"https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F5%2F0%2F6%2F0%2F13410605-3-eng-GB%2F0137cf6b4fe0-2026-10-15T022345Z_380004941_RC2D3OAP3ECB_RTRMADP_3_SOUTHKOREA-MARKETS.JPG?fit=cover\u0026gravity=faces\u0026dpr=2\u0026quality=medium\u0026source=nar-cms\u0026format=auto\u0026width=780","word_count":145,"reading_time_minutes":1,"sources":[{"url":"https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/taiwan-stocks-in-steepest-ever-fall-south-korea-halts-trading-amid-ai-rout","domain":"asia.nikkei.com"},{"url":"https://www.techmeme.com/","domain":"techmeme.com"}],"translation":{"lang":"cs","id":2720,"title":"Asijské technologické akcie prudce padají, Jižní Korea zastavila obchodování po výprodeji čipů na Wall Street","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/clanek/2720-asijske-technologicke-akcie-prudce-padaji-jizni-korea-zastavila-obchodovani-po","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2720?lang=cs"},"content":"AI-linked stock markets in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan plummeted on Friday after a sharp tech selloff on Wall Street overnight. The Korea Exchange imposed a circuit breaker during morning trading to slow the selling, with the KOSPI index down as much as 8.7% at one point, according to Nikkei Asia.\n\nInvestors are worried that a sweeping Democratic victory in the U.S. midterm elections could delay data center construction, a key driver of demand for AI chips and memory. Market summaries put the Nasdaq 100 down about 6% on Thursday, a record $2.3 trillion loss in value, with the Philadelphia chip index off roughly 12%.\n\nThe moves hit the same Asian chipmakers and memory suppliers that had rallied on AI demand for most of the year. Why it matters: the rout shows how dependent global markets have become on the pace of AI infrastructure spending."}}