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...
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...
