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Clashes over the Strait of Hormuz pushed investors into risk-off mode, pulling global equities lower while oil prices climbed. Asian memory chipmakers led the session's declines.
The move in crude followed the sequence physical markets establish first: a shock at a key shipping chokepoint reprices the barrel before equity desks finish their rotations.
Asian memory chipmakers lead the tape lower Asian memory chipmakers absorbed the session's sharpest losses as the risk-off wave moved through global equities.
The sector carries direct exposure to trade routes that run through the same waters now in question, layered on top of its baseline sensitivity to global demand cycles.
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