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Macro · Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read
South Korea's consumer prices rose 2.9 percent in September from a year earlier, down from 3.1 percent in August, the Ministry of…
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Markets · Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Hong Kong set the tone for a thinned out Friday board. The Hang Seng returned from Thursday's holiday and fell 2.60 percent…
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Macro · Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea's exports rose 83.5 percent year on year to 120.94 billion dollars in September, the first month above 120 billion, the…
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Markets · Oct 1, 2026 · 6 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 3.30 percent, or 2,203.00 points, to 68,956.72 on Thursday, the board's strongest row by a wide margin, with…
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Markets · Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Tokyo led Asia's board higher on the final session of September. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.94 percent higher at 66,753.72 and the…
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Markets · Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia split on Tuesday with the selling concentrated in Tokyo's broader benchmark: the Topix fell 1.72 percent to 4,041.13 against the Nikkei…
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Markets · Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia opened the week lower after Washington rejected Tehran's conditional offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz: Shenzhen's component index fell 3.44…
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Macro · Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Construction contracts in South Korea rose 27.3 percent year on year to 80.9 trillion won in the second quarter of 2026, from…
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Markets · Sep 25, 2026 · 7 min read
Tokyo carried a board thinned to four open markets on Friday. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.30 percent higher at 66,364.20, per the…
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Markets · Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Tokyo came back from its three day holiday with the Nikkei 225 the board's only riser. The index closed 0.76 percent higher…
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Markets · Sep 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia closed split on Wednesday around a thinning holiday map. South Korea's Kospi led the board, 0.90 percent higher at 7,080.92, a…
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Markets · Sep 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia took Wall Street's record close and handed most of it back by the bell on Tuesday. South Korea's Kospi opened 2.20…
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Markets · Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia opened the week higher without Japan. South Korea's Kospi rose 1.65 percent to close at 7,007.72, back above the 7,000 line…
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Markets · Sep 18, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan raised and the yen fell anyway. The Nikkei 225 closed 1.38 percent higher at 65,018.95 on Friday after…
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Markets · Sep 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia split on Thursday over the first session after the Federal Reserve’s quarter point rise: Hong Kong’s Base Rate moved to 4.25…
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Markets · Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our Asia board except one rose on Wednesday, with Korea's Kospi the day's best at 1.37 percent higher and…
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Markets · Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Every index on our Asia board fell on Tuesday, with Singapore's Straits Times the worst at 1.39 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225…
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Markets · Sep 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Asia's chip heavy markets fell on Monday after the leaders of rival artificial intelligence laboratories united behind a call to slow the…
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Markets · Sep 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia Pacific equities closed broadly lower on Friday, with the technology heavy Japanese and South Korean markets leading the retreat, as a…
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Markets · Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read
Asian equity markets were mostly lower on Thursday, tracking Wall Street’s overnight decline as Brent crude held above 100 dollars a barrel,…
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Markets · Sep 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Operating profit at South Korea's externally audited manufacturers reached 24.0 percent of sales in the second quarter, against 5.1 percent a year…
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Markets · Sep 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Asian equity markets split on Wednesday as crude oil extended its rally, with Brent crude topping 100 dollars a barrel in Asian…
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Markets · Sep 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia fell on Tuesday as oil moved toward 100 dollars a barrel. Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1,130.51 points, or 1.70 percent, to…
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Markets · Sep 8, 2026 · 4 min read
South Korea's real gross national income rose 3.1 percent in the second quarter while real gross domestic product rose 0.6 percent, the…
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Markets · Sep 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia rose on Monday with Wall Street closed for Labor Day. South Korea's Kospi rose 308.18 points, or 4.61 percent, to 6,995.39,…
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Macro · Sep 5, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea recorded a current account surplus of 42.08 billion dollars in July 2026, the Bank of Korea reported on 4 September,…
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Markets · Sep 4, 2026 · 4 min read
Asia bought Wall Street's relief on Friday. 7 of the 10 benchmarks in this wrap closed higher, on our count, led by…
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Markets · Sep 4, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea's consumer price index rose 3.1 percent year on year in August 2026, up from 2.8 percent in July, the Ministry…
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Markets · Sep 3, 2026 · 5 min read
Asian equities steadied on Thursday after Wednesday's rout, with 6 of the 10 benchmarks in this wrap closing higher and the gap…
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Markets · Sep 2, 2026 · 10 min read
Asian equity markets fell almost without exception on Wednesday 2 September 2026. Of the 10 gauges tracked here, covering 8 markets, 9…
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Markets · Sep 1, 2026 · 11 min read
Taiwan's Taiex rose 1.78 percent to close at 46,948.72, its highest finish since 1 July and the day's high, as investors chased…
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Markets · Aug 31, 2026 · 7 min read
Oil prices extended their weekend surge into the Asian session on Monday, with West Texas Intermediate up 3.74 percent, on our calculation,…
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Markets · Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min read
The Kospi fell 1.79 percent to 6,788.88 on Friday, the steepest decline on a board where 7 of the 10 Asian benchmarks…
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Markets · Aug 27, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea led Asian equities higher on Thursday as Nvidia's stronger than expected results lifted chip stocks across the region at the…
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Macro · Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The Bank of Korea raised its Base Rate by 25 basis points to 3.00 percent on August 27, 2026, its 2nd consecutive…
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Markets · Aug 26, 2026 · 8 min read
Two of Asia's most semiconductor-heavy markets led the region higher on Wednesday, hours before Nvidia reports second-quarter results. Taiwan's Taiex rose 1.47…
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Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division earned KRW 106.5 trillion, or $79.6 billion, of operating profit in the third quarter, nearly all of the group’s total, in results released on 29 October. The quarter rests on server memory, which both companies cite for their results. In The Edge’s reading, the larger change is in how memory is…
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 the Federal Reserve’s decision. The question over the AI trade since mid-October has been whether chip demand converts into profits and payouts; in The Edge’s reading, SK hynix answered it for the chipmakers,…
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 growth ahead of forecasts. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.73 percent and snapped three declines, while Shanghai and Shenzhen both fell. Taipei returned from its two-session closure with a 0.12 percent gain. Brent crude…
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, according to the Bank of Korea’s advance estimate. Government spending did most of the lifting. Public consumption and public investment together added 0.8 percentage points of the 1.0 percent rise, on our sum…
Asia split on Monday, with five of the nine indices that traded closing higher. Seoul’s Kospi led the fallers, down 1.46 percent at 5,469.47, while India’s Nifty 50 rose 0.68 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.51 percent. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell for a third straight session, and Taipei did not trade on the…
Shenzhen’s component index rose 2.79 percent on Friday to snap three straight declines, leading a China rebound a day after all ten of the indices we track closed lower. Shanghai added 0.89 percent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 0.69 percent, while Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 slipped a second day after September inflation firmed. Taipei’s market did…
The Bank of Korea left its Base Rate at 3.00 percent on 22 October, pausing after quarter-point hikes in July and August. All seven members of the Monetary Policy Board voted for the decision. The pause does not end the cycle: the Board said it will decide “the timing and pace of further increases in…
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 ten of the indices we track closed lower. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 2.65 percent and finished at its low of the day. The Bank of Korea kept its policy rate at 3 percent…
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 of the panel’s ten indices closed higher. China’s markets and Hong Kong closed lower, and India slipped on its return from a holiday. Brent crude traded 1.27 percent higher at 110.17 dollars a…
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 unwinding its two-session rebound, with SK hynix down 4.23 percent. Hong Kong returned from its holiday 1.32 percent lower against Friday’s close, and Shanghai’s 0.12 percent rise was the only gain among the…