What the Extraordinary Market Volatility in Asia Says About Energy and A.I.

What the Extraordinary Market Volatility in Asia Says About Energy and A.I

Stocks in South Korea and Taiwan, the center of global chip making, plunged on fears about energy prices. Their recovery shows the bullishness over artificial intelligence.

What the Extraordinary Market Volatility in Asia Says About Energy and A.I.

Stocks across most of Asia rallied on Thursday, a day after tumbling over fears around the region’s heavy reliance on imported oil and gas. The turnaround illustrates the hair-trigger reactions of investors around the world who are trying to assess the immediate and possible long-term effects of the strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel and the repercussions around the Persian Gulf, where much of the world’s oil and gas is produced. Th…