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Global · 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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Macro · 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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China · 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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China · 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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China · 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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China · 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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China · 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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China · 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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China · 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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China · Aug 25, 2026 · 6 min read
Asian equities were broadly higher on Tuesday, with nine of the 11 benchmarks we track advancing as investors positioned ahead of Nvidia's…
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China · Aug 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Asian equities closed mostly lower on Monday, and the regional headline hid a wide spread beneath it. South Korea's Kospi fell 3.12…
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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 central bank said on Tuesday, confirming the growth figure it had already given in its advance estimate. Income grew 5.2 times as fast as output on our calculation. The bank explains the gap…
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, 4.61 points short of 7,000, on our calculation, as Samsung Electronics gained 5.68 percent and SK Hynix 8.26 percent, per CNBC. Japan’s Nikkei 225 added 2.12 percent to 66,399.84 with SoftBank up 11.22…
South Korea recorded a current account surplus of 42.08 billion dollars in July 2026, the Bank of Korea reported on 4 September, against 10.78 billion dollars in July 2025. Goods did almost all of it: the goods account produced a surplus of 40.43 billion dollars, which is 96.1 percent of the current account total, on…
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 of Data and Statistics said, while the Bank of Korea reported foreign exchange reserves rose to 442.3 billion dollars at the end of August, up 14.3 billion dollars, or 3.3 percent, from July….
Asian equities steadied on Thursday after Wednesday’s rout, with 6 of the 10 benchmarks in this wrap closing higher and the gap between the day’s best and worst boards narrowing to 1.17 percentage points from 4.58 a day earlier, on our calculation. The session’s real moves were elsewhere: dollar/yen fell 1.43 percent to 156.43 and…
Asian equity markets fell almost without exception on Wednesday 2 September 2026. Of the 10 gauges tracked here, covering 8 markets, 9 closed lower and 1 closed higher. The Kospi lost 3.99 percent, the steepest fall in the group, and the Nikkei 225 lost 2.85 percent. The Straits Times Index was the only gainer, at…
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 semiconductor shares after Nvidia agreed to invest 3.5 billion dollars in MediaTek’s 3.9 billion dollar overseas convertible bond offering, announced on Monday, dealers told Taiwan’s Central News Agency. MediaTek said the offering, the…
Oil prices extended their weekend surge into the Asian session on Monday, with West Texas Intermediate up 3.74 percent, on our calculation, and Brent crude up 3.61 percent, after United States forces destroyed two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday as Iran prepared to fire mine-carrying rockets into…
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 in this wrap closed higher, on our calculation. The other 9 ranged from Taiwan’s 0.77 percent gain to Shenzhen’s 0.68 percent fall, a span of 1.46 percentage points on the same calculation, so…
South Korea led Asian equities higher on Thursday as Nvidia’s stronger than expected results lifted chip stocks across the region at the open, and the Bank of Korea then delivered a second straight rate increase alongside an upgraded growth forecast. China’s main boards also rallied, the same day the National Bureau of Statistics reported that…