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Chip Stocks Endure Longest Losing Streak Since 2006 as CoreWeave Credit Concerns Mount: This Week on Wall Street

BenzingaPiero Cingari

The iShares Semiconductor ETF is on a nine-session losing run unseen since May 2006, as the KOSPI posts its worst week since 2008, optical names suffer dot-com-era drops and Bank of America sees a Cisco echo.

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