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The Japanese market extended the slide on Tuesday. A large -scale sale of technology shares headed on the second day, and some were driven by a night protruding of the chip maker NVIDIA's shares.
NVIDIA has lost $ 589 billion on Monday in a historic fall in Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The basic infrastructure dollar.
Nippon Swang 225, which has many Japanese technology, decreased by 1.7 % in Tokyo on Tuesday morning, down 0.6 %. A wide range of TOPIX, which has a low weight of high -tech exporters in Japan, has risen 0.5 %.
In Hong Kong, the shares of high -tech companies in China recorded profits on Tuesday, but chip manufacturers' smocks decreased by more than 2 % after opening.
SoftBank Group's stocks that were listed in Tokyo were hard hits, plummeted at an early transaction of more than 5.2 %, and extended this week to about 12 %.
According to analysts, SoftBank has been particularly influenced by 10 % of the 10 % of the Japanese groups of the United States, ARM Holdings, which have 88 % of the Japanese groups. 。
Even after this week's crash, SoftBank's shares are more than 43 % higher than in August, and Kark Budley, an analyst that covers the Astris Advisory company in Tokyo, states, focusing on high stock volatility. I am.
“It looks scary now, but it's probably normal for SoftBank,” he said. “It's another one of the round -trip, a big collision, and then returning to the earth.” Boodry continues to evaluate the company as “purchase.”
Last week, the founder's son accompanied President Donald Trump at the unveiling Stargate joint venture, and SoftBank, Oracle could grow to $ 500 million in four years. I participated in the center investment.
The promise of Deepseek's much lower cost AI model raised the question of whether his son's photography was “marked the peak of AI Capex Boom”, said Jefferies's strategist, Chris Wood. 。
Sales in Tokyo focused on disco, advanced tests, and Furukawa Electric. This focused on shares that have increased rapidly in recent months to expect to expand the demand for high -end chips and data centers.
DISCO and Furukawa shares decreased by 3 % on Tuesday mornings and decreased by 7.5 %. The advantage was more than 10 % in the first 20 minutes of the transaction.
The sale has been expanded so that companies such as Mitsubishi Heavy, Hitachi, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries are included. Until recently, they were making higher transactions in a bet on gaining profits from increasing overall investment in AI -related power infrastructure.
The US dollar was collected 0.3 % in the currency basket in the morning transaction, but the yen weakened to 155.30 yen per green back.
Hong Kong's Hang Senbenchmark opened 0.4 % of Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu on Tuesday.
South Korea and Taiwan are closed for the New Year's holidays, and Hong Kong stops trading at the end of the morning session.
