Bloomberg News Samsung Electronics Co. shares have dropped 8% this week.The week’s global decline in technology stocks continued Thursday, weighing on Asian markets. But Japan’s benchmark staged an afternoon rally, looking to end November on a strong note. It was recently up 0.6%, reversing early weakness, as it benefited from overnight declines in the yen. Asian chip shares fell after fresh selling in the U.S. overnight, with the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.27% falling 1.3% during a 4.4% slump in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -4.39% , its biggest drop of the year. The tech-heavy benchmark in Taiwan Y9999, -1.43% ended down 1.2% to set a near-two-month closing low, Taiwan Semiconductor 2330, -3.62% sliding 3%. In South Korea, the Kospi SEU, -1.45% was down 0.8% amid a 3.4% decline in index heavyweight Samsung Electronics 005930, -3.42% . The two stocks have slumped 7% and 8% respectively this week.via