On July 2, VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) fell 3.22% in regular trading, trading at $599.07/share, with turnover of $2.415 billion.
On the news front, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh reiterated at the central bank annual meeting that the policy focus remains on suppressing inflation, explicitly declining to provide any rate path guidance. The hawkish tone fueled expectations of further rate hikes, triggering a broad sell-off across global semiconductor stocks. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged 6.27% overnight, with AI hardware stocks falling across the board.
The ripple effects extended globally — China's A-share semiconductor index crashed 7.85% in a single session, while Hong Kong-listed chip stocks saw steep declines, with names like GigaDevice falling over 18%. The triple-leveraged short semiconductor ETF surged over 19%, reflecting intensified bearish sentiment. Apollo Asset Management noted that AI is shifting from a model race to a compute race, with inference and agent workloads consuming 100 to 1,000 times more tokens than traditional chat requests, underscoring the sector's sensitivity to rate expectations amid elevated valuations.
The fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise its benchmark index, which includes common stocks and depositary receipts of U.S. exchange-listed companies in the semiconductor industry.
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