Asian stocks

Hong Kong stock exchange posts record half-yearly profit

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing welcomed 87 new listings, raising a total of $34.6 billion – a 94 per cent increase year on year.

Tech leads losses as Asian stocks track Wall Street sell-off

Firms heavily invested in AI and chips on Wall Street were sharply lower.

South Korea volatility spike ebbs as leveraged trades are flushed out

Surging turbulence in the Kospi drove a volatility gauge to a record-high 96.9 in June.

Tencent slides most in over a year, leading China gaming sell-off

Tencent shares dropped 7.1 per cent, the biggest fall in over a year.

Why South Korea’s stock index is more volatile than Bitcoin

Volatility on the benchmark Kospi Index has topped 60 per cent, almost double that of Japan’s Nikkei 225.

AI-driven earnings growth, rising gold prices: Banks’ top market themes for second half of 2026

US equities and Asia ex-Japan stocks have been buoyed by strong AI-driven earnings growth, according to Standard Chartered.

Malaysia tops S-E Asia’s IPO market in first half of 2026, Singapore comes in second

The listings in Malaysia raised US$1.3 billion (S$1.68 billion), while those in Singapore raised US$868 million.

Foreigners dump Asia stocks at record pace as AI winners get crowded

Overseas investors pulled a net US$137.36 billion (S$178 billion) from shares across South Korea, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines in the first six months of the year.

South Korea’s surging equity volatility draws meme-stock comparisons

Currency dealers monitor exchange rates in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on June 23.

SpaceX, OpenAI windfall fuels bets on next-wave Asian AI winners

Some investors believe that the billions of dollars that SpaceX, Anthropic PBC and OpenAI are set to raise through stock offerings will kick off a fresh round of technology spending.

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