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Seoul spent Friday, August 21 running two markets at once. The KOSPI opened down 1.35 percent, tracking a weak Wall Street session, then spent the day climbing out of the hole on the back of two stock...
Seoul's benchmark index spent Thursday undoing almost exactly what it had done the day before. A session after the KOSPI dropped 5.55% in the worst of this week's global bond-market turmoil, it closed...
Seoul had one of its worst sessions of the year on Wednesday, and the trigger did not come from Korea. A global selloff in long-dated government bonds sent yields to multi-year highs in the United Sta...
Seoul spent Tuesday morning celebrating and Tuesday afternoon unwinding it. The KOSPI opened 2.15% higher at 7,127.77, ran to an intraday 7,216.62 on another wave of chip buying, and then spent the re...
Seoul's chip trade did it again. The KOSPI pushed above the 7,000 mark for the first time in fifteen sessions on Friday, tapping an intraday high of 7,010.86 before profit-taking pulled it back to a s...
Seoul's chip trade did it again. The KOSPI closed up 3.56% at 6,813.34 on Thursday, a fourth straight advance, as foreign investors kept pouring money into Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix on the back...
South Korea's stock market delivered one of its most emphatic sessions of the year on Wednesday, as a wave of foreign money poured into the country's chipmakers and dragged the KOSPI up 3.68% to a rec...
Seoul spent the first hour of Tuesday's session in the red and finished it in the green — a quiet reversal that says more about Korea's export machine than about any single headline. The KOSPI opened ...
Monday belonged to the small caps. While Seoul's blue-chip KOSPI managed only a modest bounce after a bruising end to last week, the junior KOSDAQ exploded higher, ripping almost 7% and tripping a buy...
Payday arrives, the number in your account looks healthy for about a week, and then somehow it's the 20th and you're rationing coffee money until the next deposit. If that cycle sounds familiar, the p...
