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Markets · Nov 4, 2026 · 3 min read
First published at 07:20 GMT; updated with the session's closing edition at 10:27 GMT. Mainland Chinese stocks led a split Asian session on Wednesday, with Shenzhen's Component index closing 4.22% higher while Tokyo's Nikkei 225…
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Macro · Nov 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Seven foreign companies notified $2bn of investment in South Korea on the opening day of Invest KOREA Summit 2026, a record for…
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Macro · Nov 4, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea's official foreign reserves rose $2.60bn in October to $443.16bn, the Bank of Korea said, citing investment returns and higher foreign…
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Markets · Nov 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Taipei and Seoul dived 3.59% on Tuesday as the technology selloff reached Asia's chip heavyweights, while India rose a fourth day and…
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Macro · Nov 3, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.8% in October from a year earlier, slightly slower than September, while the core rate stayed at…
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Markets · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Brent slid 4.43% by 10:08 GMT amid reports of US-Iranian diplomatic contacts, while Seoul's Kospi rebounded 2.24% from the technology selloff that…
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Macro · Nov 1, 2026 · 7 min read
South Korea's exports rose 93.7% from a year earlier to $115.3bn in October, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources said on…
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Macro · Oct 30, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea's manufacturing output jumped 9.9% in September from August, the Ministry of Data and Statistics said on 30 October, more than…
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Markets · Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Seoul's Kospi fell 3.48% and Tokyo snapped a three-session rise after Amazon and Intel earnings added to AI spending worries, on the…
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Markets · Oct 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 1.10% for a third straight day before Friday's Bank of Japan decision, while a Samsung earnings miss cooled…
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Corporate News · Oct 29, 2026 · 9 min read
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division earned KRW 106.5 trillion, or $79.6 billion, of operating profit in the third quarter, nearly all of the…
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Markets · Oct 28, 2026 · 3 min read
A record SK hynix quarter sent Seoul's Kospi up 6.63% to 6,012.44 on Wednesday, with chip markets higher across Asia hours before…
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Markets · Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min read
Seoul led Asia on Tuesday, with the Kospi up 3.09 percent at 5,638.34 after the Bank of Korea's advance estimate put third-quarter…
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Macro · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea's economy grew 1.0 percent in the third quarter from the second, seasonally adjusted, and 3.4 percent from a year earlier,…
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Markets · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Asia split on Monday, with five of the nine indices that traded closing higher. Seoul's Kospi led the fallers, down 1.46 percent…
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Markets · Oct 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Shenzhen's component index rose 2.79 percent on Friday to snap three straight declines, leading a China rebound a day after all ten…
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Macro · Oct 22, 2026 · 7 min read
The Bank of Korea left its Base Rate at 3.00 percent on 22 October, pausing after quarter-point hikes in July and August.…
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Markets · Oct 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Seoul's Kospi fell 3.52 percent on Thursday as chip shares gave back Wednesday's rebound, the deepest decline on a day when all…
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Markets · Oct 21, 2026 · 4 min read
South Korea's Kospi rebounded 3.29 percent on Wednesday as chip shares rallied, reversing most of Tuesday's slide in a single session. Six…
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Markets · Oct 20, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea led Asia lower on Tuesday as the artificial-intelligence trade turned again. The Kospi dropped 3.73 percent to 5,552.74, more than…
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Markets · Oct 19, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea's Kospi closed 1.76 percent higher at 5,768.01 in a second straight gain, the strongest move of Monday's Asian session. China's…
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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul's Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday's circuit-breaker plunge…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday's hot US inflation print reached the region's chipmakers: Seoul's Kospi dived 7.57…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Wednesday ahead of a US inflation report due in the evening, and Taiwan's Taiex rose…
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Markets · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Seoul's Kospi sank 5.46 percent on Tuesday, its worst day since mid-August, as reported progress by China's memory chipmaker CXMT set off…
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Macro · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea and China agreed on 13 October to keep their supply chain hotline running as a standing channel for monitoring critical…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Six of the eight Asian indices that traded on our panel closed higher on Friday, with Seoul and Taipei shut for public…
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Macro · Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Egypt and South Korea declared the launch of negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on 8 October, during President Abdel Fattah…
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Corporate News · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Samsung Electronics estimates its operating profit for the third quarter of 2026 at approximately 107.40 trillion won, equivalent to 80.1 billion dollars,…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read
All ten Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Thursday, the first session with Shanghai and Shenzhen back from the National…
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Macro · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea posted a current account surplus of 46.11 billion dollars in August, up from 9.85 billion dollars a year earlier, the…
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Macro · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Egypt's exports to South Korea rose 9.4 percent to 58 million dollars in the first 8 months of 2026, from 53 million…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 4 min read
All eight Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Wednesday, led by Seoul, where the Kospi fell 1.98 percent to 6,803.90…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 1.05 percent to 70,683.98 on Tuesday, its first close above the 70,000 line since 1 July, and every…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea's official foreign reserves stood at 440.56 billion dollars at the end of September, down 1.72 billion dollars from 442.28 billion…
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Markets · Oct 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei's weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225…
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First published at 07:20 GMT; updated with the session’s closing edition at 10:27 GMT. Mainland Chinese stocks led a split Asian session on Wednesday, with Shenzhen’s Component index closing 4.22% higher while Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.42% on its return from a holiday. Five of the ten markets in this wrap rose and five fell,…
Seven foreign companies notified $2bn of investment in South Korea on the opening day of Invest KOREA Summit 2026, a record for the summit, the trade ministry said. For Korea’s regions the destination of the money matters as much as its size: the ministry puts 97% of it outside the Seoul capital area, in AI…
South Korea’s official foreign reserves rose $2.60bn in October to $443.16bn, the Bank of Korea said, citing investment returns and higher foreign currency deposits of financial institutions. For Korean markets, the increase more than reverses September’s dip and leaves reserves at their highest month-end level since at least March 2025. In The Edge’s reading, the…
Taipei and Seoul dived 3.59% on Tuesday as the technology selloff reached Asia’s chip heavyweights, while India rose a fourth day and Australia’s central bank raised rates again. In The Edge’s reading, the session imported both of Monday’s American stories at once: Wall Street’s technology unwind, which Seoul and Taipei absorbed hardest, and the inflation,…
South Korea’s consumer prices rose 2.8% in October from a year earlier, slightly slower than September, while the core rate stayed at 2.8%, official data showed. For the Bank of Korea, the October figures are mixed. Fresh food prices fell sharply, but core prices picked up, and headline and core inflation both stand at 2.8%,…
Brent slid 4.43% by 10:08 GMT amid reports of US-Iranian diplomatic contacts, while Seoul’s Kospi rebounded 2.24% from the technology selloff that defined its October. In The Edge’s reading the session pointed one way for Asia’s importers even as the markets split, five higher and five lower: crude gave up part of its war premium,…
South Korea’s exports rose 93.7% from a year earlier to $115.3bn in October, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources said on 1 November, as semiconductor sales more than tripled. For Korea’s exporters, October shows how far chips now drive the trade account: they supplied 49% of shipments. In The Edge’s reading, the $1 trillion…
South Korea’s manufacturing output jumped 9.9% in September from August, the Ministry of Data and Statistics said on 30 October, more than reversing the previous month’s fall. In The Edge’s reading, September looks more like a recovery from a weak August than a new acceleration. All-industry output rose 3.0% on the month and 1.9% over…
Seoul’s Kospi fell 3.48% and Tokyo snapped a three-session rise after Amazon and Intel earnings added to AI spending worries, on the day the Bank of Japan held at 1.25%. In The Edge’s reading, the session divided on exposure to AI capital spending rather than on the policy decision: Seoul, Taipei, Shenzhen and Tokyo fell…
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.10% for a third straight day before Friday’s Bank of Japan decision, while a Samsung earnings miss cooled the chip rally across Asia. A day after SK hynix answered the AI question for the chipmakers, Samsung’s third quarter put the other half back on the table: in The Edge’s reading, the…