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  "id": 14598310,
  "title": "Asia stocks tumble, S.Korea’s KOSPI slumps 7% on chip rout, Fed rate fears",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/asia-stocks-tumble-s-koreas-kospi-slumps-7-on-chip-rout-fed-rate-fears",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-15T02:53:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/asia-stocks-slump-as-chip-rout-deepens-after-hotter-us-inflation-4950421"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Asian stocks plummeted on Thursday, with South Korea's KOSPI falling 7.2%, Japan's Nikkei 225 sinking 4.7%, and the MSCI Asia Pacific index slipping nearly 3%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 1.1%, while China's CSI 300 and Shanghai Composite decreased 1.4% and 1.5%, respectively. The sell-off followed a weak day on Wall Street, where the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged 1.9%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index extended its losing streak to six sessions, while the Russell 2000 Equal Weight slipped into correction territory after falling 11% from its peak. Investors await Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's earnings report, hoping for record earnings and positive guidance. South Korean memory-chip makers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics took the biggest hits, with SK Hynix plunging 11.2% and Samsung falling 9.4%. Japan's Kioxia and LG Innotek lost over 10%, while Taiwan's Largan, Foxconn, and TSMC dropped more than 2%. The declines were fueled by fears of Chinese semiconductor competition and rising U.S. inflation, which pushed the probability of a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike to 31.6%.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "South Korea's KOSPI drops 7.2% amid chip rout",
    "Japan's Nikkei 225 falls 4.7% on semiconductor concerns",
    "Fed rate hike probability rises to 31.6%"
  ],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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      {
        "outlet": "The Business Times - Companies & Markets",
        "title": "Gold slumps as faster US inflation stokes Fed rate hike wagers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/gold-slumps-as-faster-us-inflation-stokes-fed-rate-hike-wagers",
        "published": "2026-10-15T00:31:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Straits Times Business",
        "title": "Gold slumps as faster US inflation stokes Fed rate hike wagers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/gold-slumps-as-faster-us-inflation-stokes-fed-rate-hike-wagers-14581223",
        "published": "2026-10-15T01:30:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Economic Times",
        "title": "S Korea triggers 'sidecar' halt, KOSPI slumps about 8%",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/s-korea-triggers-sidecar-halt-kospi-slumps-about-8",
        "published": "2026-10-15T02:05:23.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Standard IN",
        "title": "Stock Market LIVE: GIFT Nifty signals negative open; Kospi tumbles 7% as chip shares decline",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/stock-market-live-gift-nifty-signals-negative-open-kospi-tumbles-7-as",
        "published": "2026-10-15T02:27:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Tech rout triggers trading halt for KOSPI stocks for 20 min.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/tech-rout-triggers-trading-halt-for-kospi-stocks-for-20-min",
        "published": "2026-10-15T03:40:21.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CoinDesk",
        "title": "Bitcoin is back below $81,000 as Fed rate uncertainty weighs. Kospi plunges 8%",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/bitcoin-is-back-below-81-000-as-fed-rate-uncertainty-weighs-kospi",
        "published": "2026-10-15T03:57:45.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Tech rout triggers trading halt for KOSPI stocks for 20 minutes",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/tech-rout-triggers-trading-halt-for-kospi-stocks-for-20-minutes",
        "published": "2026-10-15T04:12:03.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}