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...
Seoul spent the first hour of Monday's session looking like it was going to end August with a rout. The KOSPI opened 175.30 points lower at 6,613.58, a 2.58% gap down that followed through to an intra...
Wall Street handed Seoul a gift overnight, and Seoul gave it back. Nvidia's blowout results had lifted the Nasdaq 1.6% on Thursday, and the KOSPI opened firm on that warmth. By late morning it had inv...
