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...
Seoul spent Tuesday morning looking like it was heading for a second straight rout, and spent the afternoon undoing it. The KOSPI opened 2.4% lower at 6,535.93, extended the drop to more than 4% at it...
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 ...
Seoul roared back on Wednesday. Two days after the KOSPI shed more than 5% in a single session, the benchmark surged 3.76% to close at 6,598.26, up 239.31 points and back within touching distance of t...
