SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With the price of gold surging in recent days, an increasing number of investors are buying actual gold products. According to industry sources, the value of gold bars sold through the nation’s four major banks during the period from April 1 to 6 stood at about 2.49 billion won [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors turned net sellers of South Korean stocks in March amid the collapses of Silicon Valley Bank in the United States and the global bank Credit Suisse, central bank data showed Monday. Offshore investors sold a net US$1.73 billion worth of local stocks last month, a turnaround from [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail investors from South Korea, who tend to seek high returns by tolerating high volatility, have sold off shares of NASDAQ-listed tech companies, data showed Sunday. Domestic investors purchased smartphone behemoth Apple Inc.’s shares worth US$582.1 million during the period from January 1 to April 7, according to data [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Large companies listed on the South Korean main KOSPI bourse will be required to begin issuing key regulatory filings in English next year, the country’s financial and stock exchange regulators said Sunday. According to the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Korea Exchange, companies with at least 10 trillion [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors have been rushing to buy South Korean bonds on expectations of global monetary easing since the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States, industry sources said Thursday. Foreigners bought a net 11.09 trillion won (US$8.5 billion) worth of South Korean bonds between March [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The loan exposure of nonbanking financial companies to real estate project financing (PF) has spiked to an alarming level in recent years, posing potential credit risks amid a decline in the housing market, industry data showed Sunday. The volume of exposure by insurance companies, securities firms, credit card companies [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean brokerage firms saw their combined net profits plunge in 2022 due to a fall in transaction fees and shrinkage in profits from stock and bond markets, data showed Thursday. The combined net profit of 58 brokerages stood at 4.51 trillion won (US$3.47 billion) last year, compared with [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator said Friday it will expand the disclosure of information on loan-deposit rate differences as part of efforts to promote competition in the banking sector amid criticism that it has been bent on making profits from the “interest business” without diversifying income sources. Banks have been [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Corporate borrowers are flocking to the local debt market to take advantage of stabilizing market rates and strong investor demand, with even low-rated players coming back to raise money. Since late October last year, corporate borrowers’ borrowing costs had been on the rise in tandem with rising market rates [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of foreign securities held by South Korean institutions fell in 2022 due to losses from heightened global market volatility, data showed Thursday. The outstanding amount of foreign securities held by institutional investors is estimated at US$365.29 billion as of the end of December, down from the previous [...]