Oil prices have jumped and Asian shares are mostly lower after the U.S. carried out airstrikes and Iran retaliated.
A dealer walks past near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 10, 2026.
FILE - A logo of SK Hynix is seen at Korea Electronics Show in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 8, 2019. The big South Korean chipmaker will begin trading on the Nasdaq Friday, July 10, 2026.
Currency traders pass by a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index , left, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics Co., right, stock price at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. A man walks past a monitor showing stock prices of companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
A dealer walks past near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 10, 2026. – Oil prices jumped and Asian shares were mostly lower Monday after the U.S. carried out airstrikes and Iran retaliated.
The price of Brent crude, the international standard, gained 4.7% to $79.59 per barrel, while U.S. benchmark crude oil added 4.8% to $74.85 per barrel. Prices for both types of crude oil recently had slipped back to around the levels they were at before thebegan, after the two sides set an interim agreement on ending the conflict and ships resumed transporting oil through theinto Monday morning over an Iranian attack on a container ship in the strait that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing over the weekend.
Iran retaliated by targeting countries across the Middle East. U.S. stock futures fell, with the contract for the S&P 500 down 0.6% and that for the Dow 0.4% lower. The Nasdaq composite future lost 1.3%. In Asian trading, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index lost 2.2% to 67,055.67, while in Seoul, the Kospi declined 8.2% to 6,864.84.
Shares in South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix, which soared 13% in their debut Friday on Wall Street, slumped 13.3% in Seoul. Its bigger rival Samsung Electronics sank 10.5%. Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.1% higher, to 24,200.67, and the Shanghai Composite index shed 1.9% to 3,920.50.boom. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.3%.
The Nasdaq composite climbed 0.3%. SK Hynix's shares jumped immediately after trading began in the midday hours after it raised roughly $26.5 billion by selling American depositary shares at a price of $149 each. SK Hynix’s stock in Seoul had already surged more than 600% over the last year thanks to euphoria around AI. The boom has created real profits due to surging demand for computer memory.
But it has alsothat AI stock prices have shot have too high and that all the world’s spending on chips and data centers won’t be able to produce enough productivity and profit growth to make it worth it.
“The reason why this stock, along with other memory chip makers, has gone parabolic is that AI demand has somehow created the perception that a sector historically defined by boom-and-bust cycles could remain permanently in the boom phase,” Ipek Ozkardeskaya of Swissquote said in a commentary. SK Hynix plans to double its production capacity, or possibly more, to keep up with demand.
However, “Technological breakthroughs, more efficient AI models or simply a slowdown in AI infrastructure investment could quickly turn the market into one of oversupply,” she said. Similar concerns apply to many AI stocks as they've grown into some of Wall Street’s most influential because of their huge valuations. Nvidia was the strongest single force lifting the S&P 500 Friday after rising 4%.
Beyond the uncertainty about AI, the focus on Wall Street is shifting to the upcoming reporting season for companies’ profits during the spring. Companies across industries will need to produce big growth in profits to justify the big moves for their stock prices, which are broadly near records.
Next week will feature earnings reports from many of the biggest U.S. banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo on Tuesday alone. Worries about how continued fighting with Iran will affect the global flow of crude are clouding the outlook both for energy costs and overall inflation. In other dealings early Monday, the U.S. dollar rose to 162.10 Japanese yen from 161.72 yen. The euro fell to $1.1405 from $1.1408.
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