On July 24, Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bear 3x Shares rose 8.43% in regular trading, trading at $49.77/share, with turnover of $824 million.
On the news front, TSMC plans to raise wafer fabrication prices for both advanced and mature process nodes in 2027, with increases of up to 10%. Additionally, the company will impose a 10% to 15% surcharge on new high-performance computing chip orders that exceed client forecasts, intensifying market concerns over so-called chip inflation. Wall Street strategists have warned that South Korean DRAM export prices have surged 370% year-over-year, far exceeding historical cycle peaks, raising fears that rising costs could pressure the sustainability of the AI boom.
The broader semiconductor sector extended its recent sell-off, with the triple-leveraged long semiconductor ETF falling over 5% during the same session. Hong Kong and A-share semiconductor boards have collectively declined in recent sessions, transmitting pessimistic sentiment to U.S. markets. Combined with aggressive profit-taking following a period of extreme volatility — the sector had plunged over 32% in seven trading days before a sharp rebound — the bearish 3x leveraged ETF amplified gains via its inverse mechanism.
The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in financial instruments providing 3X daily inverse exposure to an index tracking the thirty largest U.S. listed semiconductor companies.
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