One signal

South Korea’s exports continued to grow in September, with semiconductor shipments benefiting from global demand for AI, Bloomberg reports. The account points to chips as a source of resilience for the trade-dependent economy, even as interest rates rise.

Why it matters

It is a useful glimpse of AI’s effects beyond the model makers: demand is also showing up in the trade figures of a major chip-exporting economy. Bloomberg’s supplied report gives no export totals or breakdown, so the scale of the contribution is not clear.

Discuss: Does AI-driven chip demand look like a durable source of South Korean growth, or a boom that could leave the economy exposed if orders cool?

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