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1. Reuters poll: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, with 60% of economists surveyed expecting a rate hike to 1% by the end of June. 2. ANZ: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged but will release hawkish signals, expecting a 25 basis point rate hike to 1% in April. 3. DBS: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, possibly preferring to wait for the outcome of wage negotiations this spring; June-July presents a more suitable window for a rate hike than April. 4. Capital Economics: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, with rising wages supporting a rate hike, but the Iranian conflict is the biggest variable, potentially delaying the rate hike further. 5. Daiwa Securities: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged; whether it raises rates in April could be a crucial turning point in determining market confidence in its commitment to tightening policies. 6. Allianz Group: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged; Kazuo Ueda may maintain the possibility of an April rate hike, while adding data-dependent conditions to hedge against any external shocks. 7. Mitsubishi UFJ: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, but may raise them in April. Geopolitical risks have become the new normal, and stabilizing the yens exchange rate is becoming increasingly important for Japan. 8. Sumitomo Mitsui: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and will focus on how rising oil prices will push up costs for petrochemical products and other oil-based commodities, and how these costs will be transmitted domestically. 9. Moodys Analytics: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and may raise them to 1% around mid-year. Further weakening of the yen could prompt the central bank to raise rates later this year. 10. Natixis: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and maintain a hawkish stance to avoid disrupting spring wage negotiations, while maintaining a tightening bias to alleviate new imported inflationary pressures. The Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) announced today that it conducted 13 billion yuan of 7-day reverse repurchase operations, with both the bid and winning bids amounting to 13 billion yuan. The operating rate was 1.40%, unchanged from the previous rate.The main Shanghai silver futures contract plunged 6.00% intraday, currently trading at 18,852.00 yuan/kg.Iran says the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guard in Oshnoviya, a Kurdish city in western Iran, was attacked.Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara: I hope the Bank of Japan will work closely with the government to formulate appropriate monetary policies to achieve the 2% inflation target in a stable and sustainable manner, and that inflation should not be driven by cost-push factors but by wage growth.

Samsung Elec announces a higher Q2 profit owing to solid server-chip demand

Charlie Brooks

Jul 07, 2022 11:18


Samsung Electronics (OTC:SSNLF) Co Ltd announced its greatest April-through-June profit since 2018 with an 11 percent year-over-year gain, as demand for its memory chips from server customers more than offset decreased sales to smartphone manufacturers due to inflation.


The world's leading memory chip and smartphone manufacturer stated Thursday that its second-quarter operating profit grew to 14 trillion won ($10.73 billion) from 12.57 trillion won a year earlier.


It was quite close to Refinitiv's SmartEstimate of 14,45 trillion won.


In agreement with market estimates, Samsung (KS:005930) announced in a short earnings report that sales likely climbed by 21 percent year-over-year to 77 trillion won.


This month, Samsung will provide detailed financial results.


Large U.S. IT companies that rely heavily on data center services continued to acquire chips to meet cloud demand, insulating Samsung's chip revenue from a potential client oversupply after two years of high demand.


According to the data source TrendForce, the price of some DRAM chips, which are utilized in electronic devices and servers, decreased by around 12 percent last month compared to the same time period one year prior. As demand for smartphones and laptops decreases, analysts believe that prices will continue to fall.


"Server DRAM is currently the only feasible sales channel... As a result, Korean manufacturers were the first to signal a willingness to contemplate a quarterly price cut of more than 5 percent (for server goods) "DRAMS," according to TrendForce.


According to TrendForce, the costs of NAND Flash chips, which are used in electronic devices for data storage, are projected to decline by as much as 5 percent between July and September compared to the previous quarter.


Following two profitable pandemic years in which customers purchased devices for remote work, chipmakers throughout the globe are observing a fall in demand.


According to analysts, rising prices, worries of a dramatic market collapse, the Ukraine war, and China's COVID-19 lockdowns have hampered smartphone sales, leaving server chip demand as the only bright light.


During morning trade, the price of Samsung's stock jumped by 0.9%.


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