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And I'm Karen Moscow.
Karen, we end the week with a market rally around the world. U.S. futures are building on yesterday's tech-led gains on Wall Street. The stock 600 in Europe's hit an all-time high. But the real action was in Asia, where the KOSPI index in South Korea rebounded from a three-day sell-off to surge 18%. We get more from Bloomberg Markets reporter Mark Cudmore in Singapore.
It's insane, isn't it? On Wednesday, it was down 21.3% for the week. Then it had a 26% rally between Wednesday's lows and Friday's highs. This is one of the world's largest stock markets. Through the GFC, we saw some wild moves. In the dot-com era, we saw some wild moves. This is pretty insane for one of the world's largest stock markets.
Bloomberg's Mark Cudmore notes SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics each rose more than 22%.
Nathan, the gains in Korea follow a big rally for chip stocks here in the U.S. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, known as the SOX, climbed 8.2% yesterday, and Microsoft soared 16% for its best one-day performance in 18 years following strong earnings.
And the higher tech earnings continue, Karen, with Amazon. Those shares are up nearly 13% in the pre-market. The company reported cloud computing revenue accelerated for a fifth straight quarter. Amazon's e-commerce operation still generates the biggest share of its revenue. Online sales gained 15% to more than $70 billion. Poonam Goyal covers Amazon for Bloomberg Intelligence.
It looks like broad-based strength across the board. The retail numbers were particularly good, and that was expected because we had the Prime Day shift moving in from 3Q to 2Q. So overall, really nice numbers here on the retail side. Consumers came to Amazon to shop Prime Day sales, and the shift to online just continues to appear more and more apparent as we move through a tough consumer spending cycle.
Poonam Goyal of Bloomberg Intelligence says Amazon raised its projection for 2026 capital expenditures to $220 billion. That's up from a previous estimate of $200 billion. Most of that's going to go to AI.
While Amazon is searching, Nathan, investors are taking a bite out of Apple shares this morning.
Why are global markets rallying and which regions led the gains?
That stock down more than 7%. The iPhone maker delivered a disappointing sales forecast. Apple has been struggling with shortages of computer processors and fast-rising memory costs. As for the previous quarter, sales topped estimates climbing 16% to more than $109 billion. Mark Gurman covers Apple for Bloomberg.
My take is that the iPhone number looks great. My take is that the Mac number looks amazing. My take is that service is a little soft and the China number missed the estimate we have here on the Bloomberg terminal. But at the same time, that is, you know, pretty nice growth on an annual basis where they were sort of, I guess, in the toilet in China a couple of years ago and last year, but they've totally rebounded there.
And Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the quarter served as a swan song of sorts for Tim Cook, Apple's leader since 2011. He's handing the reins to hardware head John Ternes on September 1st.
Let's focus on the economy now, Karen. A raft of economic data in the U.S. doing little to dispel investor anxiety, keeping yields near multi-year highs. Bloomberg's John Tucker is here with more. Good morning, John.
Good morning, Nathan. The data included the Fed's preferred inflation measure, which eased.
What caused South Korea's KOSPI to rebound so sharply this week?
But that is in the rearview mirror. It was driven by a temporary drop in oil and gasoline. It's already reversed. The focus for the Treasury market remains the Fed's decision to hold rates steady despite stubborn inflation.
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