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Markets · 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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Markets · 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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Macro · Aug 24, 2026 · 4 min read
South Korea's domestic banks generated a record 32.2 trillion won in interest income in the first half of 2026, yet stronger core…
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Markets · Aug 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia extended Thursday's rebound into the weekly close on Friday, with Hong Kong leading the region above a round-number mark, while the…
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Markets · Aug 20, 2026 · 7 min read
Asia rebounded on Thursday almost as hard as it had fallen a day earlier, while most Gulf markets absorbed a sharp escalation…
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Macro · Aug 20, 2026 · 3 min read
Korean household credit reached 2,019.8 trillion won at the end of June, the first reading above two thousand trillion. The quarterly increase…
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Markets · Aug 19, 2026 · 7 min read
Asia's selloff turned into a rout on Wednesday, led by the chip complex, while the Gulf split and Kuwait advanced, per CNBC.…
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Markets · Aug 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Asia sold off on Tuesday while the Gulf steadied, an inversion of Monday's map, as the first full session after the 60-day…
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Markets · Aug 17, 2026 · 6 min read
Gulf equities slipped broadly on Monday while China rallied, as the 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired with no…
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Markets · Aug 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Egyptian and Saudi equities led a broadly firm Sunday session across the Middle East and North Africa, with the EGX 30 climbing…
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Markets · Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea's Kospi led Asia for a fifth consecutive session on Friday, closing 2.42 percent higher, while the region split and the…
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Markets · Aug 13, 2026 · 7 min read
South Korea's Kospi surged for a fourth consecutive session on Thursday, adding 3.56 percent, while North Asia broadly advanced, mainland China fell…
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Markets · Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Asian equities carried the session on Wednesday, led by a 3.68 percent surge in South Korea's Kospi, while Gulf bourses closed mostly…
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Markets · Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Regional and Asian markets turned cautious on Tuesday, the final session before US inflation data that will test the week's entire narrative,…
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Markets · Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Asian markets opened the week sharply higher on Monday as the relief that lifted Wall Street after the US jobs shock extended…
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South Korea · Aug 6, 2026 · 2 min read
South Korea recorded a current account surplus of 49.73 billion dollars in June 2026 on the Bank of Korea's preliminary estimate, released…
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South Korea · Aug 4, 2026 · 4 min read
South Korea's exports reached 98.89 billion dollars in July, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources, with semiconductor shipments of…
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South Korea · Aug 3, 2026 · 5 min read
Gulf equities held firm on Monday even as crude oil tumbled on the OPEC+ decision to raise September output, while Asian markets…
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Macro · Jul 31, 2026 · 6 min read
All industry production rose 2.3 percent on the month in June and 4.2 percent on the year, with manufacturing output up 6.8…
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Markets · Jul 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Asian markets were mostly softer on Thursday as the region digested a hawkish hold from the US Federal Reserve and a sharp…
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Markets · Jul 16, 2026 · 6 min read
Asia's whipsaw week found its policy trigger on Thursday and the Gulf closed its first full week of the escalation barely changed.…
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Markets · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
The Bank of Korea raised its benchmark base rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent from 2.50 percent on 16 July,…
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Macro · Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song told lawmakers on Thursday that interest rates will need to rise, the clearest signal yet that…
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Markets · Jul 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Asian equity markets fell sharply on Tuesday in a renewed technology-led selloff, led by a steep drop in South Korea, while Gulf…
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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 gross domestic product grew 4.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, quickening from the second quarter’s 4.3 percent. Five of the nine indices rose; India’s Nifty 50 fell 1.11 percent…
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 and Tokyo’s Nikkei up 1.39 percent after six straight declines, while Shenzhen’s component index slipped 0.12 percent for a fifth session, the only decline on the board. India’s Nifty 50 added 0.65 percent…
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 percent through a circuit breaker to a six-month low in a seventh straight decline, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 4.90 percent in a sixth, and India’s Nifty 50 rose 1.66 percent as the day’s…
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Wednesday ahead of a US inflation report due in the evening, and Taiwan’s Taiex rose 0.59 percent to 48,625.83, the day’s only gain. China’s September numbers ran hot, with factory-gate prices up 5 percent and exports up 36.3 percent, yet Shanghai lost 0.88 percent and Shenzhen 1.97. Seoul’s…
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 a selloff in the region’s semiconductor stocks. Tokyo returned from its holiday to a split verdict, the Nikkei 225 down 1.82 percent while the Topix edged higher, and Taipei’s Taiex lost 1.95 percent….
South Korea and China agreed on 13 October to keep their supply chain hotline running as a standing channel for monitoring critical goods, at talks in Huizhou in China’s Guangdong province, as trade between the two economies rose 51.3 percent to 263.1 billion dollars in the first eight months of 2026. Customs data show that…
Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a fourth straight decline. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.76 percent in the day’s strongest gain, Singapore and Hong Kong edged higher, and Tokyo’s equity markets sat the session out for the Sports Day holiday….
Six of the eight Asian indices that traded on our panel closed higher on Friday, with Seoul and Taipei shut for public holidays. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng led the gainers, up 1.79 percent, and Mumbai’s Nifty 50 added 1.30 percent as Tata Consultancy Services opened the Indian IT earnings season. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.02…
Egypt and South Korea declared the launch of negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on 8 October, during President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s state visit to Seoul, Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources said. Egypt’s Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Mohamed Farid Saleh, and Korea’s Minister for Trade, Park Jung-sung, who heads its…
Samsung Electronics estimates its operating profit for the third quarter of 2026 at approximately 107.40 trillion won, equivalent to 80.1 billion dollars, up from 12.17 trillion won, or 9.1 billion dollars, a year earlier, in preliminary earnings guidance released on 8 October. That is 8.8 times the year-earlier figure and 20.0 percent more than the…