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With South Korea's sole bourse operator set to introduce this month a stock index comprised of Korean companies well complying with the government-led corporate value-up program, the market expects bank shares and large-cap stocks to make the list. As part of the value-up program announced earlier...
South Korean real estate developer and builder Hyundai Development Company said Friday that it has seen an almost 90 percent surge in its share prices on upbeat earnings and positive credit ratings this year. As of Aug. 26, the stock price closed at 26,700 won ($20), an 87.9 percent growth from th...
Japan’s Kioxia Holdings, the world’s third-largest NAND flash memory company, applied to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, making it the largest stock debut since SoftBank in 2018. Now keen attention is being paid to SK hynix, the world's No. 2 maker of memory chips, which has invested...
Nearly three months after the government launched the "Corporate Value-up Program" in May, participation by South Korean companies remains minimal. As of Friday, just eight companies had released value enhancement disclosures, representing a mere 0.3 percent of the 2,585 firms listed on the Kospi ...
Local securities firms that offer daytime trading of US stocks for South Korean investors are to tentatively suspend the service, following the order cancellation fiasco that happened earlier this month. A total of 19 brokerage houses, affected by the canceAllation of orders by the US overnight tr...
More South Korean investors are eyeing lucrative opportunities in the booming Indian market with its equity funds yielding more returns than those comprised of US and Japanese stocks. In June, India’s total stock market value reached the $5 trillion milestone, making it one of the world’s bigges...
The South Korean stock market partially rebounded Tuesday from the previous day's massive rout, as bargain-hunting investors sought to profit. The benchmark Kospi stood at 2,531.91, up 90.36 points, or 3.7 percent, as of 2:30 p.m. It opened at 2,533.34, showing limited recovery, but fluctuated thr...
South Korean shares dived more than 8 percent on Monday, triggering the stock exchange to temporarily halt the main Kospi and secondary Kosdaq markets, as investors were gripped by fear that the US economy may head toward a recession. A record 190 trillion won ($139 billion) was wiped off the Kosp...
Hana Bank’s foreign exchange trading room in Seoul, the largest in South Korea, completed its first extended trading session on Tuesday. Starting Monday, Korea extended its foreign currency trading hours, pushing the closing time from 3:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. the following day. This move is part of Ko...
Foreign investors’ net purchases on the South Korean stock market during the first six months of this year surged to an all-time high of over 23 trillion won ($16.6 billion), according to the nation's sole bourse operator, the Korea Exchange, on Sunday. Overseas investors amassed a total of 23.28...
Cushman & Wakefield Korea, the local arm of the global commercial real estate services firm, aims to enhance its provision for corporate clients, launching its integrated facilities management service in July here. “The service, offered to offices, buildings, and other corporate real estate prope...
Mirae Asset Global Investments, Korea’s leading asset management firm, will launch a new covered call exchange-traded fund that generates monthly income to target investors who are preparing for post-retirement life. The asset manager is to list Tiger US Nasdaq100+ 15 Premium Daily Option ETF on ...
With the liberal opposition clinching a landslide victory in Wednesday's general election, expectations over President Yoon Suk Yeol’s economic policies that favor stock market investment falter. Yoon’s People Power Party faced a major defeat in the parliamentary elections, as the main oppositio...
Foreign investors sustained a five-month buying streak in the South Korean stock market, resulting in an unprecedented quarterly volume. The Financial Supervisory Service disclosed Monday that foreign investors amassed a total of 15.8 trillion won ($11.67 billion) worth of local shares in the firs...
Financial sector rises while secondary battery stocks decline As stock prices of large-cap stocks fluctuate since the beginning of the year, the ranking of the top companies by market capitalization has changed significantly. Expectations surrounding “value-up” programs have led to a surge in r...
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