South Korea's stock market crashed -8.5% overnight.
SK Hynix and Samsung led the bleed, hit by an AI semiconductor selloff and Korea's hottest inflation print since Dec 2023.
$UBS says 60% of companies are now curbing AI spending, shifting to cheaper models including open-source Chinese options like DeepSeek and Qwen.
This is a buying opportunity. Global AI compute demand isn't going anywhere. This is a shakeout, not a top.
Best AI infrastructure plays, and how far each sits from its 52-week high:
$MU -17.7%
$SNDK -14.0%
$NBIS -21.0%
$META -23.2%
$MSFT -33.1%
$GOOGL -6.0%
$NVDA -16.5%
$AMD -7.5%
$INTC -10.8%
$AVGO -25.4%
$MRVL -18.0%
$BE -13.8%
$VRT -17.2%
Still extremely bullish. Generational wealth gets made in stretches like this, for the people who stay focused.
Big themes I'm not losing sight of: quantum, space, energy, AI supply chain, robotics.