Odaily Planet Daily report: According to MSX.COM data, most major Asia-Pacific stock indices declined today. A-shares and Hong Kong stocks fluctuated throughout the day, the Nikkei 225 fell nearly 900 points, and the Korea Composite Stock Price Index dropped over 5.5%.
Specifically, at the close, the ChiNext Index fell over 3%, the Sci-Tech Innovation Composite Index and the Shenzhen Component Index each dropped more than 2%, while the Shanghai Composite Index declined by approximately 0.7%. The combined trading volume on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges reached RMB 3.07 trillion, an increase of RMB 311.5 billion from the previous trading day. More than 3,200 stocks across the market advanced. The robotics sector surged against the trend, with Zhongda Lide achieving two consecutive board limits in four days, and Lǜde Harmonic, Keli’er, and Guangyang Shares all hitting their daily price limits. In contrast, semiconductor industry segments such as memory chips and CPO led the declines, with Weiteou falling nearly 13%, Biwin Storage and Jiangbo Long dropping over 8%, and trillion-yuan giant Zhongji Xuchuang sliding nearly 8%.
In the Hong Kong stock market, semiconductor stocks plunged collectively, causing the Hang Seng Tech Index to fall as much as 2% in the afternoon. As of reporting, U-Bio Holdings dropped nearly 15%, Monolithic Power Systems and GigaDevice fell over 9%, Hua Hong Semiconductor declined over 7%, and SMIC dropped over 6%. The AI applications sector continued to decline, with MINIMAX-W falling over 15%, Xunce down over 10%, and Zhipu falling over 9%.
In the Japanese and Korean stock markets, semiconductor stocks generally declined, with SK Hynix falling nearly 10%, Samsung Electronics and Tokyo Electron dropping over 6%, and Advantest falling nearly 5%.