{"id":80015,"date":"2026-10-15T04:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T04:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:55:53","slug":"tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.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><\/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 &#8230; <a title=\"Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}