{"id":25464,"date":"2026-10-15T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:37:17","slug":"tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as global investors fret over potential interest rate hikes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/oct\/15\/tech-stock-sell-off-markets-uk-gdp-economy-august-imf-latest-news-updates\">Business news \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/oct\/15\/global-economy-multilateral-cooperation-crisis-imf\">Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An accelerating sell-off of AI-linked shares has hit global markets, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/14\/inflation-numbers-september\">fears over rising inflation<\/a> and future interest rate hikes spooked traders already wary of the heavily indebted sector.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s benchmark Kospi 200<strong> <\/strong>index, which is heavily skewed towards the companies that make memory chips, fell more than 8% overnight to a six-month closing low, triggering circuit breakers that brought trading to a halt at various points.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/15\/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/db77d2497ad333f58b03bc024b156cdce2973b96\/1166_0_4632_3706\/master\/4632.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0c106f80a98eb99a06130d501a36d1b9\" title=\"Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt\" \/>Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as global investors fret over potential interest rate hikes<\/p>\n<p>Business news \u2013 live updates<br \/>\nLarry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming<\/p>\n<p>An accelerating sell-off of AI-linked shares has hit global markets, as fears over rising inflation and future interest rate hikes spooked traders already wary of the heavily indebted sector.<br \/>\nSouth Korea\u2019s benchmark Kospi 200 index, which is heavily skewed towards the companies that make memory chips, fell more than 8% overnight to a six-month closing low, triggering circuit breakers that brought trading to a halt at various points. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as global investors fret over potential interest rate hikes Business news \u2013 live updates Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming An accelerating sell-off of AI-linked shares has hit global markets, as fears over rising inflation and future &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}