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NPS buffers COVID-19 shocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... plunging by 30% in mid-March, the fund delivered about -6.08% in the first quarter. South Korea's main stock market index, KOSPI, returned -32.5%, while the MSCI ACWI dropped by 31.8% over the same period. NPS said such adverse market conditions ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
South Korea's KOSPI index has rebounded by 26.5% from the coronavirus-induced plunge that saw it hit an 11-year low of 1457.6 points recorded on March 19 this year - reducing its 2020 year-to-date loss by more than half to -16.1% from -33.7%. Similarly ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... KW1207.80 per US$1 at the start of 2017 to KW1132.95 per greenback (a 6.6% appreciation to date). Similarly, the benchmark KOSPI composite index has gained 15.2% this year to date - outperforming most of its Asian peers and those of developed market ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng - or highly volatile - Shanghai Composite - or down big time last week - Nikkei-225, Kospi, S&P/TSX composite. Yes Virginia, the bears came out of hibernation in full force. There was no place to hide, everywhere you ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... 12.15 points, to end at 18,797.94. Seoul slipped 0.37 per cent in cautious trading after a recent rally with the benchmark KOSPI closing down 7.28 points at 1,985.80. Sydney climbed 0.34 per cent, closing up 20.3 points to 5,928.8. Hong Kong stocks fell ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... points, to 1,521.68. South Korean shares closed 0.13 per cent higher, recovering from morning losses, with the benchmark KOSPI gaining 2.61 points to 1,993.08. Hong Kong added 0.5 per cent, or 123.78 points to close on a one-month high of 24,902.06 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... to 14,588.68 as a weaker yen buoyed exporters. Seoul rose 0.92 per cent, with a rally in Samsung shares helping lift the KOSPI 18.18 points to close at 1,995.48. Shanghai shares closed up 0.82 per cent ahead of an expected official announcement about ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... slowing in China - even rose strongly. The S&P/AX 200 index jumped by 1.14%, the Nikkei-225 closed 1.9% on the up, Korea's Kospi index inched up by 0.1% and Singapore's Straits Times index gained 0.03%. Others fell, the biggest being the 0.9% drop in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... after hitting a three-year low on Monday. In Tokyo the Nikkei climbed 0.35 per cent, or 30.88 points, to 8755.00, while the Kospi in Seoul was up 0.23 per cent, or 4.17 points, at 1,821.96. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index rose 1.52 points, or 0.04 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... after hitting a three-year low on Monday. In Tokyo the Nikkei climbed 0.35 per cent, or 30.88 points, to 8755.00, while the Kospi in Seoul was up 0.23 per cent, or 4.17 points, at 1,821.96. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index rose 1.52 points, or 0.04 per ...
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