SoftBank Group shares surge 11% as Asian tech stocks rally after Wall Street rebounds

A sharp decline in oil prices lifted sentiment while renewed buying in semiconductor names overnight spilled over into Asia, following last week’s bruising sell-off.

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  • Asian technology stocks surged on Tuesday, tracking a rebound on Wall Street overnight.
  • The recovery came after a steep sell-off in global technology stocks last week.

A SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chip displayed at the Semiconductor Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images

Asian technology stocks surged Tuesday, tracking a rebound on Wall Street overnight as a sharp decline in oil prices lifted sentiment while renewed buying in chip names spilled over into Asia, following last week’s bruising sell-off.

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix jumped 8.01%, while Samsung Electronics rose 5.32%. Samsung SDI climbed 6.27%.

In Japan, technology investment giant SoftBank Group surged 12%, while chip-testing equipment maker Advantest gained 5.41%. Semiconductor equipment maker Tokyo Electron rose 5.88%, while Lasertec and Disco advanced 6.34% and 6.95%, respectively.

The gains followed a strong session on Wall Street, where the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.74%, while the S&P 500 rose 2.35% to clock its best day since April 8.

The recovery came after a steep sell-off in global technology stocks last week, fueled by concerns that Democrats’ sweeping victory in the U.S. midterm elections could lead to tighter restrictions on data-center development, potentially impacting demand for artificial intelligence chips and infrastructure.

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