{"id":237556,"date":"2026-06-26T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/world-shares-skid-as-traders-sell-to-lock-in-profits-after-recent-rallies-driven-by-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:40:51","slug":"world-shares-skid-as-traders-sell-to-lock-in-profits-after-recent-rallies-driven-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/world-shares-skid-as-traders-sell-to-lock-in-profits-after-recent-rallies-driven-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"World shares skid as traders sell to lock in profits after recent rallies driven by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/26\/asian-shares-plunge-as-traders-sell-to-lock-in-profits-after-recent-rallies-driven-by-ai-2\/\">World shares skid as traders sell to lock in profits after recent rallies driven by AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/26\/asian-shares-plunge-as-traders-sell-to-lock-in-profits-after-recent-rallies-driven-by-ai-2\/\">https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/26\/asian-shares-plunge-as-traders-sell-to-lock-in-profits-after-recent-rallies-driven-by-ai-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 01:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"halifax.citynews.ca\">halifax.citynews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global share markets experienced a downturn, especially in Japan and South Korea where indices declined sharply.<\/li>\n<li>Key indices in Europe, like Germany\u2019s DAX, France\u2019s CAC 40, and the UK\u2019s FTSE 100, showed negative returns.<\/li>\n<li>Significant declines occurred in Asian markets, with Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 and Seoul\u2019s Kospi experiencing the most significant losses.<\/li>\n<li>US market futures indicated mixed movements for the upcoming trading session.<\/li>\n<li>Volatility in markets is driven by the influx of investments in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly affecting AI-related companies.<\/li>\n<li>Tech giants in South Korea, like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, faced significant share value drops.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns over the sustainability of AI-related profit growth have caused intermittent pressure on AI stocks.<\/li>\n<li>The US inflation rate increased to 4.1% in the latest month as oil prices drop, potentially easing inflation.<\/li>\n<li>Currency trade saw the US dollar weakening against the Japanese yen while the euro strengthened against the US dollar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World shares skid as traders sell to lock in profits after recent rallies driven by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/349c23abfe22b2f80d7107e6ac348bac0b54681d0f67df44b6a26151ef42b853.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-237556","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\/237556"}],"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=237556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237558,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237556\/revisions\/237558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}