SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean stocks are likely to continue fluctuating in a tight range next week amid lingering uncertainties about inflation pressure. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) closed at 2,971.02 points Friday, slightly up from 2,968.8 points a week ago. Stocks slumped from Tuesday to Thursday as strong [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s overseas financial assets soared to a new high in the third quarter thanks largely to increased stock investments, central bank data showed Thursday. The nation’s external financial assets came to US$2.10 trillion at the end of September, up $30.6 billion from three months earlier, according to preliminary [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean stock investors will be allowed to trade foreign stocks in decimal points via the securities firms of their choice, starting from the end of this year at the earliest. The Korea Securities Depository (KSD) announced that it had completed the setup of a special infrastructure to enable [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of small shareholders in global tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. surpassed 5 million amid massive stock investment by local retail investors, data showed Monday. Some 5.18 million investors held shares in the top-cap company as of the end of September, triple the tally a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s benchmark stock index is likely to come under selling pressure next week as uncertainties from the fast-growing inflation continue to fan expectations of a quick rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve, analysts said Saturday. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) closed at 2,968.8 points [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading securities companies posted record earnings in the first nine months of this year on a stock market boom, industry sources said Thursday. The country’s top 10 brokerage housed are estimated to have registered a combined net profit of around 7 trillion won (US$5.9 billion) for the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — As retirement pension funds shift their focus from savings to investment, products such as target date funds (TDFs) and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are growing at a blistering pace. The reserves for defined contribution (DC)-type retirement pension and individual retirement pension (IRP) products totaled 63 trillion won (US$53.1 billion) [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s benchmark stock index is likely to move in a tight range next week, although volatility may increase due to policy uncertainties, analysts said. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) closed at 2,969.27 points Friday, nearly unchanged from 2,970.68 points a week ago. The KOSPI fluctuated [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul shares may fall further to 2,900 next week depending on upcoming global economic indicators and the Federal Reserve chairman’s possible comments on tighter monetary policy, analysts said Saturday. The Benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) fell for a third straight day to end 1.3 percent lower at [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The value of derivatives-tied securities issued in South Korea plumbed a near eight-year low in the first half of the year amid the bullish run of major global stock markets, data showed Tuesday. The amount of equity-linked securities (ELS) and derivatives-linked securities (DLS) outstanding came to 80.2 trillion won [...]