{"id":209332,"date":"2026-05-05T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/ai-boom-drives-a-rally-in-buying-of-tech-shares-pushing-south-koreas-kospi-to-a-record-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:00:11","slug":"ai-boom-drives-a-rally-in-buying-of-tech-shares-pushing-south-koreas-kospi-to-a-record-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/ai-boom-drives-a-rally-in-buying-of-tech-shares-pushing-south-koreas-kospi-to-a-record-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom drives a rally in buying of tech shares, pushing South Korea&#8217;s Kospi to a record :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/0da18-ai-boom-drives-a-rally-in-buying-of-tech-shares-pushing-south-koreas-kospi-to-a-record\/\">AI boom drives a rally in buying of tech shares, pushing South Korea&#8217;s Kospi to a record :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/0da18-ai-boom-drives-a-rally-in-buying-of-tech-shares-pushing-south-koreas-kospi-to-a-record\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/0da18-ai-boom-drives-a-rally-in-buying-of-tech-shares-pushing-south-koreas-kospi-to-a-record\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 23:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korea\u2019s Kospi index reached a new record, surging nearly 7% on Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Electronics&#8217; stock led the rally, jumping nearly 13% due to strong growth expectations in artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Shares in major Korean computer chipmaker SK Hynix increased by 10% early in the day.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea\u2019s market had been closed for a holiday, impacting the day&#8217;s trading.<\/li>\n<li>Most shares in other Asian markets also experienced rises.<\/li>\n<li>On Wall Street, stock prices continued their upward trend, reaching records on Tuesday following lowered oil prices and better-than-expected corporate profits.<\/li>\n<li>The S&amp;P 500 index climbed 0.8%, surpassing its previous all-time high set at the end of last week.<\/li>\n<li>The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 356 points (0.7%), and the Nasdaq composite also set a record with a 1% rally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI boom drives a rally in buying of tech shares, pushing South Korea&#8217;s Kospi to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/5cb924d2-cbe9-5bf1-a83d-bd399a044d50?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209336,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209332\/revisions\/209336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}