Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg:
Analysis: South Korea’s stock market overtakes Canada’s for seventh place in the world, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose shares have more than doubled since the start of the year.— South Korea’s stock market has overtaken Canada’s to become the world’s seventh-largest market, propelled by insatiable demand for chips powering artificial intelligence.
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