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...
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...
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...
Seoul spent Thursday proving a point it has been making all week: the KOSPI can finish almost exactly where it started and still be a deeply unsettled market. The index opened up more than 1%, climbed...
Seoul spent the whole session trying to work out whether the buyback bid still meant anything, and by the close the answer was no. The KOSPI fell 3.99% to 6,562.72, a 273-point drop that erased the pr...
Seoul spent most of Tuesday looking like it was going to break. The KOSPI opened lower, followed the overnight weakness on Wall Street down to a loss of as much as 1.28% in the morning, and then, with...
