Market: Samsung’s Profit – NVIDIA SCNERSHIP SUPPORT

The stock market in Asia was on a gentle fall on Friday morning. The market moods were influenced by numerous issues such as interim reports, monetary policy and President Donald Trump’s customs.

In Japan, Nikkei 225 and Topix were on a 0.4 percent rising compared to yesterday’s final reading. The Korean Stock Exchange was open for the first time this week, when it was previously closed due to the New Year’s Saints.

The central index on the stock exchange, the technology -oriented Kospi, was down by 0.9 %. Earnings announcer Samsung The share was 2.2 % decline.

The company’s turnover and operational profit increased in October-December from the comparison period to beat the information service Bloomberg the average of forecasts collected from analysts. The Samsung Memory Division, on the other hand, reports a weaker result than expectations.

Samsung’s biggest competitor SK Hynixin The share was down 9.3 %. The company’s customers are one of the Nvidiawho purchases memory chips for his processors. Last year, Nvidia also started buying memory chips from Samsung.

Nvidia’s share has taken a hit this week in Chinese Deepseekin because of the artificial intelligence application developed. Deepseek has claimed to have developed artificial intelligence with a really cheap and lower -powerful processors of NVIDIA, which has raised concerns about Nvidia’s top -notch demand.

Trump repeated his customs threats

In the currency market, the movements were not strong on Friday morning. The US Central Bank Fed said on Wednesday that he would keep the steering interest rate unchanged and did not communicate that interest rates would be in a hurry.

Yesterday, the European Central Bank ECB lowered its control interests by 0.25 percentage points. The euro was strongly strengthened thereafter. Director general Chrisine Lagarde did not comment on future interest decisions, but appealed to wait for economic data as usual.

The euro strengthened in relation to the dollar, but the direction changed in the evening. US president Donald Trump He repeated his threat that he sets 25 % duties on Canada and Mexico on Saturday.

Customs could accelerate inflation in the United States, against which the Fed has tried to fight by raising interest. The Fed started interest rates last year when inflation seemed to ease.

High interest rates make the loan papers in the area attractive, which can guide investors to buy the currency of the area because they are needed to buy loans.

In the morning, the euro got $ 1.0389.

Apple published his interim report yesterday. Stock exchange futures are expecting a opening to Europe and the United States.