Taiwan and South Korea Vault Into Top 10 Global Stock Markets as AI Boom Reorders Rankings

Taiwan has surpassed Canada as the world's sixth-largest stock market, while South Korea leapfrogged the U.K. into eighth place. The shift reflects semiconductor and technology gains driving the AI infrastructure boom. Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung—now worth $1 trillion—anchored the ascent. This reordering matters: passive investors tracking global indices face shrinking exposure to traditional developed markets and larger weightings in technology-concentrated Asian economies.