SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Smartphones overtook personal computers as the top stock-trading platform in South Korea last year, data showed Sunday. Stock trading via smartphones accounted for an average 40.66 percent of daily trading on the main KOSPI market last year, according to the data by the nation’s bourse operator. In comparison, stock [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Global chip supplier Samsung Electronics Co. was the most favored stock by foreign investors this year, while Hyundai Motor Co. was the target of a foreign selling binge, data showed Tuesday. Offshore investors, who were net sellers in 2018, net bought 1 trillion won (US$836.9 million) worth of local [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors recently have been scooping up shares of Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messaging app Kakao Talk, on expectations of a rosy earnings outlook, data showed Monday. Foreigners net bought 96.64 billion won (US$83.6 million) worth of Kakao shares in the Dec. 2-27 period, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency has imposed 80.3 billion won (US$69.2 million) in withholding tax on Bithumb Korea, according to the largest shareholder of Bithumb Holdings. Vidente Co., the largest shareholder of Bithumb Holdings, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it confirmed the decision by the National Tax [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Gold has posted stellar returns this year, data showed Sunday, as an economic slump, a lengthy Sino-American trade row and other downside risks chilled the stock market and stoked investors’ flight to safety. According to the data compiled by Daishin Securities, the retail price of 1 don of pure [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest manufacturer of memory chips, hit a yearly high on South Korea’s main bourse on Friday as its improving business outlook attracted strong foreign buying, data showed. As of 10:46 a.m., shares of SK hynix soared to a 52-week high of 97,000 won (US$83), [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors, spooked by a bearish run on the local stock market, almost doubled their investment in U.S. stocks this year on hopes for steady gains on the back of strong fundamentals in the world’s largest economy and progress in trade talks between Washington and Beijing, data [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Dividend payouts by listed companies may shrink from a year earlier in 2019 due to a sharp drop in their earnings, market watchers here noted Sunday. The combined net profit of 235 listed firms that paid dividends last year is expected to plunge more than 29 percent to about [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Interim or quarterly dividend payments by South Korea’s listed firms grew slightly from a year earlier this year largely helped by massive payouts by market kingpin Samsung Electronics, data showed Sunday. As of last week, 58 listed companies have paid a combined 9.32 trillion won (US$7.95 billion) in interim [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial watchdog said Thursday that two local banks should provide compensation for up to 80 percent of their customers’ losses from a recent misselling of derivatives linked to overseas interest rates. The arbitration committee of the Financial Supervisory Service recommended the compensation rate of 40-80 percent to [...]