SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean shares breached the 2,300-point mark for the first time ever as foreign investors scooped up major tech stocks amid sound corporate earnings, bucking overnight gains on Wall Street, analysts said. The Korean won sharply rose against the U.S. dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Wall Street in Yeouido is providing ‘zero commission’ stock trading. There was a time in 2011 when free commissions were a craze, but the period of time it was applied to was a few months, or a year at the longest. However, this time, the applied period is at least one [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Fears of a slowdown in the Chinese economy sent shockwaves across global financial markets on Monday, leaving South Korean exporters jittery over their future performance as they rely heavily on the world’s second-largest economy, experts said. China’s Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 8.49 percent on Monday as investors dumped shares [...]