SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors bought South Korean stocks and bonds worth US$3.48 billion in October due to expectations of improved corporate earnings amid eased tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the central bank said Wednesday. Local stocks and bonds bought by foreign investors stood at $2.84 billion and $650 million, respectively, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top financial regulator said Monday it will draw up measures by the end of this year to encourage the nation’s state pension fund to invest more in the KOSDAQ market. Choi Jong-ku, chairman of the Financial Services Commission, made the remarks during a meeting with executives of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s credit default swap has risen by over 25 basis points since the beginning of this year, reaching nearly 70 bps, amid growing political tensions surrounding North Korea and the U.S.’s hardline stance. According to data by financial information firm Markit and Yonhap Infomax, the five-year credit default [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Japanese pension fund executive Hiromichi Mizuno has said investment directed by environmental, social and governance issues is necessary to encourage women to participate in the labor force and build a sustainable society. Mizuno, who is the chief investment officer of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), among the world’s biggest pension [...]
Washington, D.C., Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department, Rhee Chang-yong, has said though South Korea faces high household debt levels compared to other OECD member states, the level of indebtedness does not pose an imminent threat. Speaking to the press on Monday at the Korean Cultural Center in Washington [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. dollar-Korean won exchange rates were the least volatile in three years during the third-quarter of this year, despite rising tension surrounding North Korea, the central bank said Tuesday. The average gap between the daily high and low of the dollar-won exchange rates came to 4.8 won in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s benchmark stock index is expected to break above 2,500 points by the end of this year, in what would be another milestone for the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), analysts said Friday. The KOSPI closed at an all-time high of 2,484.37 points earlier this week and [...]
GENEVA, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has given 390 million won to developing countries in trade aid in the hopes of helping improve trade bargaining power and enabling productive trading, according to the World Trade Organization. The aid for trade from South Korea was given to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund, which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean banks have been accused of staying off the radar and making profits through high additional interest rates for banking products such as loans, despite government efforts to lower interest rates. According to data from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) revealed by lawmaker Park Chan-dae, who is a member [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors offloaded South Korean stocks and bonds worth US$4.3 billion in September due to profit-taking amid North Korea risks, the central bank said Wednesday. Foreign investors sold local stocks and bonds worth $830 million and $3.47 billion, respectively, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said. It marked the second [...]