The South Korean National Assembly did not pass the "Special Investigation Law on Internal Riots" and the "Special Investigation Law on Kim Gun-hee". The UK market once again experienced a "crash-style" large-scale sell-off in 2022. The 10-year yield hit a new high since August 2008, and the 30-year yield also rose to the highest level since 1998; the pound fell to its lowest point since April last year.
In terms of industry sectors, except for raw materials, medical care, real estate, industry, finance, daily necessities and energy, which closed up 0.55%, 0.52%, 0.43%, 0.39%, 0.33%, 0.18% and 0.1% respectively, the other four major sectors of S&P all closed down: semiconductors, communications, technology and energy closed down 1%, 0.59%, 0.03% and 0.03% respectively.
In terms of concept sectors, the aviation ETF closed flat at 0%, the slovenia telegram data travel services sector rose 0.73%, high-end hotel Marriott rose 1.39%, Airbnb fell 0.37%, and Norwegian Cruise Line rose 1.61%. The solar energy sector fell 4.44%. In the fintech sector, PayPal closed down 0.03% and NU fell 0.18%. The cybersecurity sector rose 0.12%, while SQ fell 1.06%.
Most Chinese stocks closed lower, with KWEB falling 0.42%. TSMC fell 2.03%, Alibaba fell 0.94%, Pinduoduo fell 0.3%, JD fell 0.74%, Li Auto fell 2.93%, Xpeng fell 5.6%, Futu fell 2.69%, NIO fell 4.21%, Miniso fell 2.01%, Zeekr fell 0.87%, and EH fell 3.16%.
Large technology stocks were mixed. Apple closed up 0.2%, Nvidia fell 0.02%, and Microsoft rose 0.52%. , Microsoft is planning layoffs in the near future. Google fell 0.67% and Amazon rose 0.01%. Amazon's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services AWS, plans to invest at least 11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure and support various cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.