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A fund manager in London runs a screen for cheap stocks with solid earnings. Korean names keep coming up: profitable exporters, global brands, order books stretching years out — trading at a fraction ...
If you have ever looked at a chart of the Korean won and wondered why it lurches around more than the euro or the yen, you are noticing something real. The won is a mid-sized currency attached to a ve...
The email lands at 9:40 on a Tuesday. Twenty minutes later your laptop stops syncing, and you are sitting in a kitchen that has become very quiet. The first question is not what do I do now. For almos...
When a single company's quarterly profit can fall by ninety percent and then, two years later, multiply several times over, something unusual is going on. That is the normal rhythm of the memory-chip ...
Seoul spent Thursday doing something it has not had to do often this year: defending a round number. The KOSPI opened soft, ran up to 7,072.79, then fell all the way to 6,898.45 in the middle of the s...
The KOSPI finally did the thing it had been failing to do since late July: it closed above 7,000. Seoul's benchmark ended Wednesday, September 9, at 7,051.64, up 97.12 points (+1.40%) — its first clos...
Seoul spent Tuesday proving that 7,000 is a level, not a destination. The KOSPI opened above the round number for the first time in 15 trading sessions, ran to 7,171.52 at its intraday peak, and then ...
Seoul spent the first week of September watching everyone head for the exit at once. On Monday, two of the three doors reversed direction — and the index moved 308 points. The KOSPI closed at 6,995.39...
There is a specific moment that happens to almost everyone with a savings account, usually on a slow evening when you're checking a balance for no particular reason. You look at the interest line. Las...
Seoul spent most of this week being pushed around by things happening somewhere else — oil, US yields, a brutal Wednesday. On Friday the pressure finally came off, and it came off in the two places th...
