Published September 8, 2026 Updated about an hour ago By Reuters BENGALURU: Chip stocks in South Korea and Taiwan drove Asian emerging markets to a multi-month high on Monday, helped by a healthy appetite for AI-related equities, while the Philippine peso hit a record low as elevated oil prices threaten the country’s trade balance. ChatGPT maker OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra last week, a new AI model it calls its best yet, driving a surge in the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index in the US on Friday. “That carried directly into Seoul and Taipei this morning, led by SK Hynix up nearly 6 percent and Samsung up 4.3 percent, with both…