Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are two of the largest companies in Korea, and their quarterly profits can swing from enormous to barely positive within a year or two. Investors abroad often ask the...
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix can report record profits in one year and a sharp drop a year or two later, even though people are still buying phones, laptops and servers the whole time. For investo...
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 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...
