South Korea Overtakes India With $5 Trillion Stock Market as AI Chip Rally Lifts Equities
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Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 2
South Korea Overtakes India With $5 Trillion Stock Market as AI Chip Rally Lifts Equities
5 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 2
$5 trillion in market value put South Korea ahead of India as the world's sixth-largest equity market, according to Bloomberg-compiled data.
An 86% surge in Korea-listed companies this year drove the shift, fueled by gains in chip heavyweights tied to the global artificial-intelligence buildout.
India's market capitalization slipped to $4.8 trillion, allowing South Korea to reclaim the higher ranking as semiconductor stocks outperformed.
Is South Korea's AI-driven market boom a sustainable supercycle or a bubble on the verge of bursting?
While Korea profits from AI hardware, can India's service economy pivot to dominate the more lucrative AI software market?
With chip shortages expected until 2030, which nation is best positioned to solve the AI industry's biggest bottleneck?