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How ETFs and index funds influence markets.
Rational vs. irrational stock prices.
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Jon Quast: Are index funds making the market irrational? You're listening to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. I'm Jon Quast, and I'm joined today by Foolish contributors Matt Frankel and Rachel Warren. Before you dive into today's episode, do yourself a favor. Head over to news.fool.com and sign up for Breakfast News. It's a free daily email from The Motley Fool, landing in your inbox by 7:30 AM every morning, packed with the stories long-term investors actually want to know about.
We're going to tackle some topics today on today's show. We have actually two topics about ETFs from our mailbag. Something like that you wouldn't necessarily find in Breakfast News, but you might find something in breakfast News similar to the story we're leading with here, and that is the topic that we have regarding SK Hynix. Now, SK Hynix is a computer memory company based in South Korea, and it's already publicly traded there in South Korea. But as early as this week, it does plan to list some American depository shares here in the U.S. or ADR. It's going to trade under the ticker symbol SKHY, and it's targeting to sell nearly 178 million ADR shares. That will hopefully raise roughly $28 billion. It needs some money to build new factories and furnish them with chipmaking equipment. Now, one could say with AI, GPUs aren't holding anything back. It's the computer memory, finding specifically that high-bandwidth memory. That is what these companies need right now. That is what we are not making enough of. My first question here to you, Rachel, is what exactly is high-bandwidth memory, and who makes it?
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