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WSJ Minute Briefing

Chip Stocks Slide Amid Renewed AI Bubble Fears

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Plus, major U.S. banks pull out of a planned $20 billion bailout for Argentina. And Paramount, Comcast, and Netflix all submit bids for Warner Bros. Discovery. Kate Bullivant hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?

0:04.8

So we started the business two years ago.

0:07.2

We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.

0:12.5

But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.

0:18.0

Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash hello vet.

0:28.5

Here is your morning brief for Friday, November 21st. I'm Kate Bullivant for the Wall Street Journal.

0:35.8

Semiconductor stocks have tumbled in Asia this morning

0:38.6

on renewed fears of an artificial intelligence bubble,

0:42.3

tracking the US chip stocks decline overnight.

0:45.8

Shares in Samsung and S.K. Hynix,

0:48.3

the world's two largest memory chip makers slumped,

0:51.7

as much as 6 and 10% respectively. The VIX volatility index, known as Wall

0:57.2

Street's fear gauge, jumped above 25, while Bitcoin has dipped below $85,000. European shares are also

1:05.4

lower in midday trading, with NASDAQ futures similarly slipping ahead of the open.

1:11.0

We're exclusively reporting that a planned $20 billion bailout from US banks to Argentina

1:16.9

has been shelved as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup pivot to a smaller

1:23.1

short-term loan package instead. The Trump administration had wanted to bolster Argentine President

1:29.5

Havier MLA's pro-reform party when it announced a couple of financial lifelines this fall. But the private

1:36.2

sector loan didn't get off the ground as banks awaited guidance from the Treasury Department on what

1:41.9

collateral and guarantees they could use to shield them

1:44.9

from losses. And Paramount Comcast and Netflix have submitted non-binding bids to acquire Warner

1:52.0

Brothers Discovery. Paramount is seeking to buy the entire company, including cable networks like CNN,

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