US stocks ended the trading session with little volatility; crypto firm Strategy made a historic sell-down of its holdings, while Samsung opened lower and trended downward after releasing an impressive earnings forecast.

US stocks closed on Monday: the Dow Jones rose 0.3%, S&P 500 gained 0.7%, and Nasdaq advanced 1.1%. According to BIT (bit.com) market data, AI-related US stocks saw strength in chip R&D and manufacturing firms, optical communication concept stocks, and storage sector equities: AAOI rose 1.98%, MRVL gained 1.63%, AVGO climbed 3.73%, ASML advanced 3.12%, Western Digital jumped 7%, while Micron Technology and Intel added around 1%. Strategy, which announced a historic Bitcoin sell-off ahead of yesterday’s market open, traded lower at the opening before climbing back to close flat; STRC edged up 0.81%. Separately, DELL surged 4.36% amid Trump’s market comments. In Asia-Pacific stocks, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics released extremely strong preliminary Q2 results ahead of this morning’s market open. Its operating profit surged over 1800% year-over-year, with quarterly earnings exceeding the sum of the past three years. Revenue also jumped 129% YoY to 171 trillion won. However, strong earnings failed to stem investor selling. According to Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI index plunged quickly after opening, widening its decline to 3%, with Samsung Electronics leading losses, down 5%.